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Pauline Hanson says political correctness is ruining Australia because people can’t “say what they really think.”
Funny thing is, she just spent an hour at the National Press Club saying exactly what she thinks about migrants, Muslims, Indigenous programs, climate policy, workers, childcare, universities and the media.
Nobody stopped her.
The real irony? The one thing many Australians won’t say publicly is that Pauline Hanson is wrong. Not because it’s banned, but because every criticism becomes another claim of victimhood and another fundraising opportunity.
Free speech isn’t being silenced. Hanson is living proof of that.
She’s been saying controversial things for nearly 30 years, gets endless media coverage, sits in Parliament, and commands national headlines whenever she speaks.
The question isn’t whether she can speak.
The question is whether her ideas stand up when they’re examined.
And that’s what seems to upset her most.
Whilst Hanson carries on about Australia standing behind only one flag, why does she continually wear the flag of another every day?
Does Pauline really stand for Australia? Or is she just a Zionist shrill.
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Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address.
The vision?
Cut education, health, childcare, climate programs, the ABC, SBS, Aboriginal programs and government departments. Scrap the NDIS and NIAA. Pull back from international cooperation. More coal. Nuclear.
Yet somehow also spend more on hospitals, schools, homelessness and cost of living relief.
When asked how she would help working Australians, she pivoted to business owners, complained about wage rises, workplace protections and workers being “lazy” and on their phones. Apparently owning a fish and chip shop 40 years ago qualifies you to lecture Australians about running a business in 2026.
Asked about interest rates? Admitted she has no control over the RBA but claimed spending cuts would magically bring rates down.
Asked about migration? Straight into fear campaigns about Muslims and Europe.
Asked about her daughter’s taxpayer-funded job? Refused to answer, attacked journalists and cried “trashy journalism”.
Asked about SBS helping migrants integrate? Her answer was basically: watch Sky News and learn English.
Asked about childcare? Complained about qualifications and pay rises for childcare workers.
Asked about abortion? Repeated the myth that women are having abortions the day before giving birth. They aren’t. Late-term abortions are extremely rare and usually involve serious medical complications or fatal fetal abnormalities.
And when asked why Aboriginal programs should be cut, she argued everyone should be treated equally.
But equality isn’t pretending everyone starts from the same place. Aboriginal Australians still experience poorer health, education and social outcomes. You don’t close those gaps by removing the services designed to address them.
That’s like removing a wheelchair ramp and calling it equality because everyone now has the same stairs.
If you’re asking Australians to hand you government, you should be able to answer questions about your policies without changing the subject every time it gets uncomfortable.
The Bush Summit, Gina in a Stetson presenting Hanson with a toy bulldozer & asking all present to make bulldozer noises. 🥴
Now clearer than ever- Gina owns One Nation & Hanson echoes what Gina wants as policy. Horrifying.
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
Ahead of Pauline Hanson taking the microphone at the National Press Club, Australians should know this
Journalist Margo Kingston was organised a few weeks back to ask the first Q - then was phoned yesterday and told she could no longer ask any Qs because they "had no time left"
@MikeCarlton01 I can't imagine Pauline spending 10 months in a cell in Wartburg Castle as Martin Luther did, let alone transcribing the New Testament in 11 weeks. Chris Uhlmann has a weird imagination of he thinks Hanson is anything remotely like Martin Luther!
@PhillipAdams_1 I grew up watching Jimmy Stewart, Hitchcock movies (HitchcockPresents), and the Twilight Zone. How lucky were you to sit next to Jimmy Stewart!
David Pocock left gobsmacked after asking why a contract - no tender - no minister sign off - has gone to a co founded by Scott Morrison’s fmr priv sec Yaron Finkelstein
Home Affairs Sec Stephanie Foster has the answer, a decision by the unelected Antisemitism envoy. FFS #auspol