Source : Perth Now news
PAULINE HANSON’S CAREER-FIRST NATIONAL PRESS CLUB SPEECH:
IMMIGRATION AND CULTURE
* “Don’t expect a divisive Welcome to Country from me” – on how to start a speech.
* “We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural” – on firming up English language requirements for migrants.
* “I will not walk away from my commitment to get rid of social cancer” – on Muslim hate preachers.
* “Other political parties are simply following me” – on Labor and the Liberal vowing to reduce immigration.
ENERGY
* “The central source of national poverty” – on unaffordable energy, which Senator Hanson proposes to remedy with more coal, gas, and nuclear instead of “net-zero nonsense”.
* “Put it up on your roofs, I don’t care” – on blocking solar panels being built on farmland, along with all wind turbines.
ECONOMY
* “How can we hold our heads up? … it’s disgraceful, and yet the Albanese Labor government … floods this country time and time again” – on the cost-of-living crisis and rising indicators of poverty.
* “Dr Chalmers has a PhD from ANU, writing about the Keating government. Well, he hasn’t learned much” – on national debt sitting at $1 trillion and government spending reaching 28 per cent of GDP.
* “That’s all smoke and mirrors” – on the gender pay gap.
MEDIA
* “There’s no need for it anymore. The internet has overtaken the need for it” – on the SBS, which Senator Hanson says will be “gone”.
* “The arrogance is stunning in its scope” – on alleged bias at the ABC, which Senator Hanson says would be a subscription service in metro areas under One Nation.
EXCHANGES WITH JOURNALISTS
* “I’ve never seen a person that’s such a trashy journalist … don’t come near me” – to a Guardian reporter who asked whether Senator Hanson had intervened to get her daughter a job as an adviser to NSW senator Sean Bell.
* “You’re gonna be out of a job” – to an SBS journalist asking why One Nation would scrap SBS if it translates Australian news for migrants seeking to integrate.
