Check out if you dare Paul Hanson’s first big interview post her successful comeback. It is a genuine car crash. Here’s some transcript:
Pauline Hanson says she is “concerned” that militant Muslims could seek to harm her, but says she will “not back down” from her plans to cut immigration and homogenise Australia’s culture.
“I am concerned about my safety, of course. But sometimes you’ve got to stand up for what you believe in and you can’t back down from it and that’s why so many people feel the same, because they’re in fear,” the Queensland senator-elect said.
Ms Hanson said she would outlaw “the full burqa” and stop the building of places for Muslims to worship.
“It’s not me; it’s our society that are on the streets protesting against the building of mosques. Why? Because they see the repercussions happening in their own communities and own areas,” she said.
Asked about Islamic schools, she said: “I’d like to know what they’re actually teaching in those schools and what’s being said in the mosques.
“You can’t deny the fact that in these mosques they have been known to preach hate towards us. Is that a society that we want to live in? I don’t believe it is.
“Do you want to see terrorism on our streets here? Do you want to see our Australians murdered?”
Ms Hanson favoured a banking royal commission, saying she’d seen evidence of fraud in the finance sector.
Bill Shorten is calling for Turnbull to resign over her rise:
“Mr Turnbull proposed Senate (voting) reform. He has made a bad situation worse. How on earth did Mr Turnbull think that an idea of reform could end up with two or three One Nation senators in the Senate? This is farcical. Mr Turnbull clearly doesn’t know what he is doing,” Mr Shorten said.
“Quite frankly I think he should quit. He has taken this nation to an election on the basis of stability. He has delivered instability. His own party know he is not up to the job, the Australian people know he is out of touch.”
The hideous Tim Wilson is warning Labor:
Incoming Liberal MP Tim Wilson has cautioned Labor to abandon its obstruction to government legislation in the Senate, or risk letting Pauline Hanson help decide the Coalition’s political agenda.
Mr Wilson, a former Human Rights Commissioner, has easily won the seat of Goldstein vacated by former trade minister Andrew Robb. He is seen as a future minister.
“Does Labor want to divide the parliament to give Pauline Hanson a voice and to decide political agendas if we are returned to government?” he told Sky News.
“It’s about time Labor start asking questions about they want to work constructively to take the country forward together or whether they want to give a platform or a voice to Pauline Hanson.”
I thought we all had the right to be bigots?
More importantly, this is potentially a very large problem for anyone wishing to see Australia’s population ponzi debated rationally. Hung Parliament 2: The Hansoning has the potential to severely polarise the electorate into pro- and anti-immigration corners based upon views about race and cultural supremacy instead what it should be about which is the question of whether or not immigration is benefiting the standards of living of the existing population.
Another vital policy well will be poisoned.
