loading . . . Basically, Pauline Hanson wants to abolish a bunch of things The “Pauline for PM!” comments continue across social media platforms this afternoon, in response to clips from Senator Pauline Hanson’s first speech at the National Press Club today.
But those still making such statements couldn’t possibly have heard the rambling speech, which darted from issue to issue, was delivered poorly, and went overtime while spending a remarkable amount of time on “transgender ideology”, which she claims has inflicted every part of government.
The issues she covered ranged from the need for Australia to be a “monocultural” society because “we cannot be a multicultural society,” to the cost of living, the media and her various issues with certain government departments.
Hanson will be abolishing many things under her watch: the “net zero hoax” will go, as will various departments and the SBS. The ABC will go subscription-only. She will quit “propping up” renewable energy, despite the role it plays in supporting energy prices in Australia, and she will go back to nuclear — without giving any substance to what that would look like.
Businesses are “suffering due to this net zero nonsense”, Hanson said, and she promised One Nation “will end this renewable energy bribery – grants, tax incentives, concessional finance, even the government underwriting anything that sponsors the whole net zero hoax.”
Hanson is especially concerned about the “trans gender ideology” — which has proven to be a winning target for politicians in uniting portions of the right overseas. She said this ideology is “militant” and on par with “Militant Islam”.
At one point during her speech, a banner was dropped behind her with an image of Hanson surrounded by flying cash and the line “I opposed a pay rise for workers, while I took a $100,000 pay rise for myself.”
With GetUp! Later, claiming responsibility for the protest, Hanson attempted to ignore those removing the banner behind her as she went on outlining how tough everyday Australians are doing it out there.
When a journalist later asked about Hanson’s poor record on voting against worker rights and pay rises, Hanson darted from small businesses not being able to fire people to the gender pay gap being a myth that can easily be explained by the fact women take time off and don’t work — and “why should businesses have to pay women who are not working.”
She said she’s often told by small businesses that they can’t fire people, and that she wants to overhaul industrial relations. “They’re on their phones, they don’t work, they don’t turn up, actually, they’re lazy,” she said.
Hanson also took aim at pay rises for early childhood educators when asked by a journalist about the 15 per cent funding announced today.
She said childcare costs are out of control in Australia, and that “when I see that kind of money being put into childcare, I think we need to have an investigation into where the money is going.”
“Didn’t they get a pay rise not so long ago? A pay rise, who is paying for that? A taxpayer again,” she said.
Hanson says she was a mother of four children and didn’t have a degree to look after them. And why do we require early childhood educators to have a degree to look after children?****
Hanson also took aim at Sarah Martin, a journalist from The Guardian who asked a legitimate question about the $160,000 taxpayer salary Hanson’s daughter is on, despite the fact she is campaigning in Tasmania. Hanson called Martin a “trashy journalist” and said she would be banned from her press conferences.
Hanson’s speech ran over time — thereby eating into the time reserved for journalists. Yet it still failed to offer much detail on the key policies Hanson is campaigning on, and just how her stance on abolishing and banning various things would actually work.
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