💧Margaret Mercer

[Cristian Crespo F. 🇨🇺 @cristiancrespoj]

🚨‼️🆘 Este niñito está en el hospital de Vargas en el seguro. Si tiene algún familiar que lo pueda buscar, perdió a sus padres en el terremoto. #Venezuela
#venezuelahoy #terremotovenezuela #prayforvenezuela

[Tom Red Memes @TomRed43]

#auspol

[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

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

“They begged to have a picture with me.”

[United Canada 🇨🇦 @UnitedCanucks26]

Retweet if you stand by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni against Trump. Her Quote ‘Italy And I Never Beg’ 🇮🇹
Canada and Greenland never beg either. 🇨🇦🇬🇱

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

CONGRATULATIONS TO DONALD ON HIS SURRENDER! MANY SAY IT'S THE BEST SURRENDER THEY'VE EVER SEEN. NAZI GERMANY CAN ONLY DREAM OF SUCH SURRENDER. PEOPLE BEG ME TO TELL THEM DONALD'S SECRET. I TELL THEM ALL, I'M SORRY, SURRENDERING CAN'T BE TAUGHT, YOU HAVE TO BE BORN WITH IT.

[Colin Lyttle @LyttleColin]

Hansen said that 25% spoke a foreign language at home and suggested this was largely Arabic and Mandarin. Jane Norman ABC News repeated this without question. This is appalling from the National Broadcaster. The truth is that around 4% of people speak Arabic or Mandarin at home.

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

Jane Norman cancelled Greg Jericho from the press gallery?

Sorry what?

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

@PressClubAust In summary:

- you blocked Margot from asking a real question to Hanson
- Masola instead asks if Australia is being 'Flooded with Muslims'
- sponsored by weapons and fossil fuel companies
- cancelled Hedges and invited Herzog to speak

You're the lamest group of complicit shills

[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.

[Dr Tracy Westerman AM @TracyWesterman]

Hanson
“We cannot be a multicultural society. We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural. Australians must live under the one cultural umbrella.”

And not one journalist asked: whose culture becomes the single culture?

That is the literal ideological DNA of fascism. The chilling part is she said it at the National Press Club and walked out without being challenged on it.

Well Pauline; we did have one culture on this continent. For 65,000 years.

And you don’t like that one either.

[Eddy Jokovich @EddyJokovich]

Jane Norman repeated Hanson’s lie that 25% of Australians speak Arabic or Chinese. It’s actually just under 4%. #NPC

[Kon Karapanagiotidis @Kon__K]

Pauline #Hanson might hate our country but I love Australia and I’m a proud Australian. I’m also proud our First Nations and Multicultural communities and our shared contributions in making this country one of greatest in the world. We are stronger together. #OneNation

[Greg Jericho @GrogsGamut]

Congrats to the press galley - you showed yourself utterly useless.

Only @msmarto can walk out knowing she remains a journalist of worth. #npc

[John O’Sullivan #FreePalestine #neveragainisnow @JohnOSullivan36]

The @SBS is one of the finest TV channels in the world. @PaulineHansonOz proposal to scrap it is nothing short of cultural vandalism. And is deeply racist. @PressClubAust

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

If Pauline Hanson wants a 'monocultural' society she's come to the wrong place.

This land has held the world's oldest living cultures for 65,000 years. We've built one of the most successful multicultural nations on earth.

Her "one cultural umbrella" is division, not unity.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The White House was built to serve the American people.

Tonight it was used to promote a company the President owns stock in, sell subscriptions, promote corporate sponsors, push Trump crypto, and enrich the President and his family.

The founders warned us about kings enriching themselves from public office.

They did not fight a revolution for this.

[Juliet Douglas @juliet_writes]

Expel Israeli Ambassador, Sack Segal, break up Advance, STOP THE ZIONIST INTERFERENCE IN OUR COUNTRY @AlboMP @AustralianLabor @SenatorWong @auspol @Australia

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

Love what the Australian soccer team says about modern Australia. Seriously, watch this video, and you'll be cheering for them too.