The left increasingly resorting to beating up on Hanson and her supporters. By One News.
An elderly staffer in her 60s was punched, spat on, and left with a broken rib at the Brisbane Showgrounds. The assault sparked severe safety fears, forcing the party to ban staff from wearing branded clothing in public while candidates withdraw from elections over escalating political threats. …
A One Nation staffer in her 60s was left with a broken rib after she was allegedly punched and spat on while running the party’s stall at the Ekka in Brisbane, One Nation chief of staff James Ashby says.
The woman, who One Nation says is a grandmother, was wearing One Nation branded clothing at the Brisbane Showgrounds at Bowen Hills when she was allegedly confronted by four people.
“There were three females and one male involved in the attack,” a One Nation spokesperson said. “It was the male who reportedly grabbed her and swung her around and punched her.” …
The lovely left, ginning up the hate:
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce raised the incident on 2GB’s Ben Fordham Live on Monday and connected it to the school and university walkouts held against Hanson the week before.
“hates Pauline Hanson”
“This is the wondrous, enlightened people like you saw at those demonstrations the other day. The peace-loving people. The reason they do that is they absolutely hate One Nation; they had chants the other day that they wanted to murder Pauline Hanson.”
The walkouts Joyce is referring to were called by the National Union of Students for Thursday 13 August across eight cities. One News reported that Socialist Alternative organised the campaign, that none of the six speakers at the Sydney rally were school students, and that at the Melbourne walkout adult marshals in hi vis vests and keffiyehs controlled crowd and media access while a masked protester snatched a reporter’s microphone during a live cross. …
The left resorts to thugishness and censorship because its arguments are so poor:
One Nation has needed a police presence at its own events through the Victorian campaign. …
At a One Nation fundraiser in Melbourne, footage broadcast by News24 showed masked protesters holding a banner reading “DEATH TO ONE NATION” outside the venue, and police arrested and removed one man. The restaurant originally booked for the dinner cancelled it on the day, telling customers in a window sign that the decision was made “due to the safety of our community”. …
Police protection?
Ashby has been putting the party’s security concerns to the federal government since well before the Ekka. In correspondence reported by The Nightly, he wrote to a Cabinet Minister in early May warning that “it only takes one crazy person” to physically harm the One Nation leader, and pressed for her Australian Federal Police protection to be upgraded.
The Nightly reported that a man carrying several knives was later detained by police outside Hanson’s hotel in Albury, on the eve of the Farrer poll that One Nation won on 9 May.
Hanson’s daughter Lee Hanson, One Nation’s Senate candidate in Tasmania, has since gone public over the threats, saying they now reach three generations of the family and that she and her own children have received death threats as well. She’s called on the Albanese government to lift the protection around her mother. …
Scaring off candidates:
“Two female candidates that we had lined up to run in the Victorian state election have pulled out because of safety concerns; they don’t want their lives being threatened or at risk.”
How has the Australian education system failed so badly that thousands of students screamed for the murder of Pauline Hanson and imprisonment of One Nation supporters?
It’s the mainstreaming of political violence.
And not a one-off. These are the same people who cheered the assassination of Charlie Kirk, lusted after the assassination of Donald Trump, and thought Ann Widdecomb deserved it. …
Like the children of other communist movements, they have been radicalised to believe that terrorism and violence is ‘resistance’.
If the left’s hate and thuggery scares off some One Nation candidates, what does that say about the people who will be elected as One Nation parliamentarians? Think of it as a filter.
Is the war on normal people by leftist parasites about to go physical?
ASIDE: on election mechanics, by Dennis Shanahan in The Australian:
New qualitative polling from Australian Institute for Progress has found that when asked about preferences after casting their first preference, 99 per cent of Labor and Greens’ supporters will refuse to put One Nation ahead of the Coalition.
This opens the scenario of compulsory preferential voting federally actually giving Coalition candidates victory even if they finish below One Nation on preferences.