Gilluca

Aged Leftie who hates all things Coalition but has the misfortune to live in Dutton’s electorate.

[Gilluca @Gilluca2]

@RoyMorganAus I don’t believe this for a moment. Get your polling right.

[Gilluca @Gilluca2]

@Mimiiben1 Soooooo easy - less than 10 secs = 5

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The media has not bothered to thoroughly fact check Hansons National Press Club address so I’ve done it for them. 18 false and / or misleading statements. John Paul Janke was the journalist who pushed back on her claims and Sarah Martin questioned her about her daughters position as campaign advisor (rightly so) and was called a “trashy journalist” by Hanson and told she would be banned from future pressers. Nothing else was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

The Sanewashing of Hanson Is at Its Peak.
This is how Trump came to power: platform the lies, skip the follow-up, let the headlines call it “proving her critics wrong.”
We are all watching it happen in real time.
At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson said the following. Not one claim was challenged by the so called journalists in attendance and she continues to be unchallenged on the facts in every interview she sits.
-1. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome scrutiny.” Hypocritical. In the same speech she announced she refuses ABC interviews, will scrap the SBS, & will make the ABC subscription-only. The event allowed 2 hours; standard format gives 25–30 mins for the address. She spoke for 50-halving the time left for questions. When Guardian journalist Sarah Martin used that remaining time to ask about her daughter's $150,000 taxpayer-funded advisor role, Hanson called her “a trashy journalist” and banned her from all future press conferences.
• “Babies are aborted the day before birth.” Fabricated. Late-term abortion is highly restricted, requires medical approval, and occurs only in genuine medical emergencies.
• “Interest rates are heading towards 10%.” False. RBA cash rate: 4.35%. Forecast to fall, not rise.
• “There’s no gender pay gap — just women taking time off.” False. WGEA confirms the gap exists at equal hours, equal roles, regardless of career breaks.
• “$30B a year on Indigenous programs.” False. Only 18% (~$5.6B) is Indigenous-specific. The rest is the Indigenous share of mainstream services every Australian uses.
• Transgender people were compared to “militant Islam.” False and dangerous. ABS data: transgender and gender-diverse Australians make up 1% of the pop’n. There’s no body of research showing transgender ppl commit crime at elevated rates-in fact it shows transgender people are dramatically more likely to be victims of violence— assault, sexual violence, and homicide rates against trans people are well above general population rates in most studies (US, UK, and Aust data all show this pattern)
• “23% of Australians can’t speak English.” False. That 23% speak another language at home — most are bilingual. Limited English proficiency: just 3.2%.
• “The CEFC has had $200 billion.” False by a factor of six. Actual legislated capacity: $33 billion.
• “I care about the homeless and hungry.” Hypocritical. In the same speech, she backed cuts to Indigenous-specific funding — despite Aboriginal homelessness running up to 10 times higher than the non-Indigenous rate.
• $90 billion in cuts, no plan. ~$35 billion of it remains unaccounted for. No modelling.
• “I support worker rights.” False. Voted against minimum wage increases, penalty rates, criminalising wage theft, casual conversion rights, same job same pay, and the right to disconnect. Took a $100,000 pay rise while voting against a tax break for low-paid workers
• Called Australian workers “lazy.” She has attended just 12% of Senate estimates since 2016 & 53% of parliamentary votes. Paid over $200k a year
• Labor have let immigration get out of control.” False. Net overseas migration has fallen every year since the post-COVID peak in 2022-23 — 538,000 → 446,000 → 306,000 in 2024-25. She also recycled a 26-year-old ABS pop’n projection as a fresh “next 50 years” forecast

Said: This beautiful country belongs to all Australians born here and those who have joined us”- in her opening line; then spent the next 50 minutes demanding a monocultural society, comparing transgender Australians to militant Islam, inflating migration and language figures, denying the gender pay gap, and repeating the debunked $30 billion Indigenous funding myth. Welcomed everyone in the first sentence. Spent the rest of the speech defining most of them out — and offered no plan to fix anything she raised, only $90 billion in cuts.
Not one follow-up question. No source data on a single figure in the entire speech. This is what unchallenged looks like.
/2 sources

[Michael @MSpringAuthor17]

How in the name of hell do we live in a country in which the Slogan Bogan reads out a speech that is a carbon copy of Hitler’s purge of Germany, including using the term monoculture, and the Australian MSM remains quiet, all because of Twisted Lachlan and Gina the Over-Inflated Toadfish.

[Robert Stevenson @RobertStevenso9]

Puppet Pauline is the politician who opposes teachers, nurses, child care workers, aged care workers, women in general, and university students, but backs Trump, Elon Musk, Murdoch and Netanyahu. She bashes battlers and barracks for billionaires.

[Michael J Wyllie @michaelJwyllie]

Can we have Laura Tingle back at the National Press Club please. 🙏🏻

[John Rowsthorne @JohnRowsthorne]

I think we all need to remind ourselves pauline hanson is not the problem per se. The real problem is the multi billion dollar mining and media industries underwriting hanson. There are thousands of hansons out there but none of them can be prominent without their active support

[Gilluca @Gilluca2]

@jesushelimez @Hazalizy 70 x 1/2 =35
70 divided by 1/2 =140

[Gilluca @Gilluca2]

@Hazalizy 195

[THE POPE…C R A W! ..not craw. 😇 @CharlesSzulc]

We don’t have honest, dedicated journalists anymore! We have people like Karvelas, Coorey, Maiden & Speers. @abcnews @AustralianLabor 😇😇😇

[Gilluca @Gilluca2]

@jmil400 @Smizzy777 Contd..not a call, an email, saying he no longer qualified to be a member of the Nat Press Club…WTF!!??

[Gilluca @Gilluca2]

@jmil400 @Smizzy777 Amanda Meade, Guardian: “Jericho reacted to the broadcast with a post at 2pm on BlueSky which said: “This gallery has had a decade of watching Trump and 30 yrs of Hanson and they walked in the press club like it was first day on the job.”
Shortly after he got a call from her

[💧 Johny Miller ([email protected]) @jmil400]

Please #ABCNews 🙏
Get rid of #JaneNorman.
She is the least authoritative senior correspondent that the ABC has ever employed. Surely, the ABC management can see the damage that she does to the integrity of the ABC.

[Ray Gatt @Gatty54]

@PressClubAust as a former journalist of 47 years I am appalled by your handling of Hanson yesterday. You allowed her to speak for too long then limited the amount of questions. Your failure not to condemn her for her attack on the journalist from the Guardian was disgraceful.

[Jane Angel 💙💛🦅 🐾 🏊‍♀️🌹 @JaneMAngel]

@davegraney @FergusonNews I can’t believe how the media has jumped on board the poorline train! It’s truly an insult to the intelligence of the voters of this country

[Peter James Rothe @PeterJamesRoth6]

@davegraney @FergusonNews MSM super reach to polish her.
Like Speers calling it a win for PH and ON.
Contradicting himself as she's the been in Parliament 30 yrs "ultimate outsider" and "unflappable in face of criticism" banning is calling journo trash and banning them.

[stihl @Anton___Illich]

@davegraney @FergusonNews The media are nothing more than bought and paid for RW Billionare propaganda promoters. It gets more painfully obvious by the day.

Jane Norman and the NPC stink.

These people arent journalists. They are paid mouth pieces.

Wont hold Hanson, nor Trump, to any account.

[Gilluca @Gilluca2]

@namelessforhere @didem5654 Will somebody else pile on to this nutter?? In my entire life no-one has EVER called me RW!!

[Gilluca @Gilluca2]

@namelessforhere @zhoppa77 @colonelhogans 🤮🤮🤮🤮 if this is an example of a ON voter….just put yourself out there so EVERYONE can see how foul you and your kind are.