Michael Faulkner

Educator, knowledge seeker and researcher, historian, & political analyst. Lover of Australian landscapes.

[Poet / gardener / reprobate (John Bartlett) @beyond_estuary]

"I want them to be able to speak English" Oh the irony 😲

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

So over this $30B myth that has literally been fact checked to within an inch of its life-any journalists going to challenge it?

Okay so let’s fund based on NEED because there’s a $1B shortfall based on health morbidity data alone for Aboriginal ppl

Pauline Hanson is a fan of funding based on need - when it comes to men’s health needs - without any irony at all

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

What a nasty bitter miserable corrupt woman.. If you agree please repost. 😩 @PaulineHansonOz #auspol

[Sandra K Eckersley @SandraEckersley]

OMG. Pauline Hanson thinks babies get aborted a day before they would be born. She hasn’t got a clue. #NPC #auspol

[stranger @strangerous10]

Pauline Hanson goes a full Trump, attacks The Guardian’s Sarah Martin calling her a “trashy journalist” just for daring to ask if she has anything to do with her daughter’s taxpayer-funded career.🙄
A total glass jaw—Clearly working off the MAGA playbook. #auspol

[Michael Faulkner @MfAdaptability]

Pauline’s address at the NPC, basically an authoritarian & angry rant, was fuelled by a combination of ignorance, social insularity, & cultural prejudice.

A frightening scenario if ON increases its influence.

[Kathy Crawford @crakeka1]

Pauline Hanson’s unhinged vitriolic attack on the Guardian journalist was something to behold. “Look over there” is neither defence nor justification. National Press Club.

[Stephen Koukoulas @TheKouk]

FMD:
Hanson asked about the RBA.
Answers: NDIS has to be cut.

[Sandra K Eckersley @SandraEckersley]

Pauline Hanson’s problem is she DOES listen to people who appear in her orbit & she takes this handful of unverifiable comments as being REPRESENTATIVE of EVERYONE instead of seeing they’re just pushing their particular barrow. SO easy to push her buttons to outrage. #auspol #NPC

[Gregory Andrews @LyrebirdDream]

While Pauline Hanson was attacking multiculturalism at the National Press Club today, this was the scene at Mawson Shops in Canberra’s working and multicultural south.

Australia isn’t weakened by diversity. We’re strengthened by it.

A strong Australia doesn’t need scapegoats.👇🏽

[Gus Lefty Aussie Patriot @GusLefty]

National Press Club

end of Hanson rant

interesting to see the high number who did not applaud

Shame we cannot know how many applauded that she finally shutup

[stranger @strangerous10]

Pauline Hanson refuses to admit she’s full of it when accusing the now deceased Tim Fischer of misogynistic remarks - despite “no evidence” & Fischer’s widow calling her out.
Cornered, Hanson clings to an imaginary memory of a decades-old article. Utterly shameless. #auspol

[Politic@l Spinner. @lesstenny]

This Speech at the National press club from Pauline Hanson has to be the most boring in history

It's just awful. Wow?

[Misinformation Fact Checker. @MisinfoFact]

Pauline Hanson complaining about people not speaking English properly is peak hypocrisy.

#NPC

[Politikarma @politikarma]

Pauline Hanson’s political self-immolation at #NPC is the very personification of the Dunning Kruger Effect.
She is literally too stupid to realise just how stupid she is 🤦🏻🤷🏼
#auspol

[MelB @MKB27]

@PaulineHansonOz criticising people not speaking English well at #NationalPressClub #NPC is peak hypocrisy.

Learn to speak it well yourself, sweetheart, before you grandstand about anyone else. Grub.

#auspol

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Radical Islam, UN conspiracies, transgender fears. All so ugly! #PressClub

[Cheryl Kernot @cheryl_kernot]

Kudos to Sarah Martin @msmarto from The Guardian for asking a quintessential question about Poorline’s daughter living in Tasmania while working for a NSW ON senator (who himself lives in Qld.
Just like Trump, Hanson abuses the journalists & bans her from future interviews.

[Aaron Smith @aaronsmith]

Pauline Hanson is utterly incoherent under questioning - exactly as we all knew she'd be.

These clips will run for months. Which is precisely why she'll never do this again. #NPC

[MFWitches @MFWitches]

How the fuck do we live in a country where Pauline Hanson can bleat on and on today about Australia’s level of debt while she’s a fully-owned subsidiary of Gina Rinehart, a woman who’s campaigned viciously against billionaires paying fair taxes for decades?

#NewsCorpse
@PressClubDC