She’s back. Bigger, redder and more bigoted than ever. Pauline Hanson has found herself a seat in the senate, thus landing a hefty cash injection into the One Nation bank account from the AEC. Votes are still being counted but it’s looking as though the Australian People will be granting somewhere in the vicinity of $1.2 million to our fledgling fascists. (Ironically she has a little of the same trajectory as Hitler. He too did a short stint in jail before his rise to power.) With Queensland awarding Hanson nine per cent of the vote it’s now totally clear where the rednecks are. Congratulations, Queensland. You are now officially our Alabama.
1. She champions hate speech. I hate her and everything she stands for. (That’s okay for me because my hate comes from a place of love.)
2. Hanson has a very narrow definition of ‘Australians.’ If she really put ‘Australians first’ as her slogan declares she’d be advocating for our first Australians. We all know her views on Indigenous Australia. Remember that letter to the editor she penned back in 1996: ‘How can we expect this race to help themselves when governments shower them with money, facilities and opportunities that only these people can obtain no matter how minute the Indigenous blood is that flows through their veins and that is what is causing racism.’
3. She is stupid. Really, really, really stupid. She is so stupid she doesn’t know she’s stupid. That is scary stupid.
4. She’s got the double whammy. She’s stupid and she’s Loud. She doesn’t know how to shut the fuck up. She has no filter. She certainly has no compassion – unless of course it’s for other whities. She represents stupid loud people who spend their lifetimes sulking because they think the reason their life sucks is other people’s fault. You hear them at Kmart screaming at their kids, ‘If you don’t shut up I’ll hit ya’. Then they hit their kids and blame Aboriginals. They never put two and two together and realise the reason their life sucks is because they’re stupid loud bigots. If all the world were stupid and loud and full of bigots they’d be on top of the pile.
5. She wants to ban Muslim immigration to Australia. She wants a royal commission into Islam and a ban on new mosques. People with views like this are the reason extreme crazy fundamentalists exist.
6. She is an extreme, crazy fundamentalist. She just happens to be white. And bogan. With Red Hair. We need a Sorry Day for Redheads. How sad for them to have come this far with Ginger Pride and then end up with a twat like her ruining it for everyone. Red hair used to be associated with wildness. Now it’s the Hair of Hate.
She needs to go and do some research on racism – maybe look at the blue eye brown eye project. Saying No More Muslims is the same as saying ‘No more redheads’. It’s ugly, unfounded, outright dumb-fuckery.
7. She brings out the worst in people. Pauline allows reasonable people to make that journey toward being narrow minded bigots. In a time of fear and uncertainty she provides dangerous solutions that only feed more fear and uncertainty, and ultimately violence. She is a match. Racism and Hate are the dry tinder. I’d say our fire risk is now EXTREME moving towards CATASTROPHIC.
8. Five thousand people in our electorate voted for her. That means 5,000 people around here are nasty small-minded Asian-haters. I want to know who they are and where they live. I want them to leave. To go back to where they belong. Somewhere like Queensland. With their nine per cent.
9. She is our Donald Trump. She not only sounds like him; she looks like him. Our dumb rednecks are now as dumb as America’s dumb rednecks. And they’ve learned how to write. Or at least how to write 1 on the ballot.
10. That mouth. I hate that mouth. That tight cat-bum mouth. When your mouth’s that tight only hate speech comes out. It’s the mouth of repression, intolerance and racism. It’s the mouth that incites people to be the worst they can. It’s the mouth of self-interest.
Keep your mouths wide, Australia. And open. I get the feeling we’re going to need to hear your voice. Pauline Hanson’s One Nation just has One Notion: Hate.
Time to build the Love Bomb.
Ditto Mandy Nolan !!
Get used to her, she’s here to stay and many of us voted her in. You might have a different view once the mosques start getting built in your area and the P & C is taken over by Muslim mums determined to eradicate kuffar liberalism from the curriculum. And more……but I shan’t go on, I’d rather leave you with your hate-filled waffle.
We have a mosque in Canberra and they are building another. It has not changed my view of Ma Hanson nor has has it of all but a very small minority of this city. Indeed across Australia the majority of Australians have rejected Hanson’s prejudices. So instead of suggesting the majority get used to views that they find offensive ask yourself why most a percentage of people in QLD do support this woman.Ask yourself why there are so many people in Canberra like me and my colleagues who have lived, traveled and worked in Muslim countries,have Muslim family members, who actually work on matters of national security and terrorism, and do not share her hateful views. I spent the latter part of my high school years in part of her heartland, and lived for another thirteen around Southern QLD. There was then a significant proportion of people who very publicly expressed hateful views against minorities – something I had never found growing up in pre-rainbow Byron Bay. In the late sixties and through the seventies aboriginals and gays were the target of their ridicule and vitriol, and at times state sanction or perpetrate violence. When Hanson first came to prominence Aboriginals and Asian migrants were the target, and now it is Muslims. People in her heartland face a litany of serious threats to their health and well being – motor vehicle accidents, obesity, alcohol, tobacco and drug abuse, domestic violence – yet Hanson and her supporters appear to be more threatened by women wearing head scarves and a mosque down the street. It is pathetic, and would be amusing if it were not so serious for the victims of their abusive policies. A decade ago I helped a risk management facilitator undertake risk assessments with over a hundred Indonesian and Australian employees – Muslim, Christian and secular – working for our Government in the largest Muslim city in the largest Muslim country in the world. Even though some had been through the trauma of the Embassy bombing they were all capable of making rational assessments of the relative risks of Islamic extremism terror attack in Jakarta, in comparison with other risks to personal safety, like crime or motor vehicles accidents. It is unfortunate that Ms Hanson and her supporters are unable to bring the same measure of balance and perspective to the issues that confront modern Australia.
LOL They don’t out number toe thousands upon thousands of Churches where pedophile in wizard clothing hang out.
I have two daughters in an all girls high school which has a large Muslim population. They all four of my children attended schools with a high Christian population and mate, all hatred and malice spoken, treating others like rubbish has come from the Christians. Their high school with a large Muslim student population is a peaceful school and many of them don’t support the ideal of religious hatred.
If only Pauline Hanson would say one word against the world’s largest pedophile network run by Christian Churches.
Excellent photograph, Mandy
Mandy your commentary is razor sharp here, thoroughly inspired analysis of the impact One Nation with One Notion….
Yvonne Rose. You need to open your eyes to what is happening with the consent of most of our politicians and the path down which their unconcern and pandering is taking us. Wake up before it is too late.
So Ms Hanson and her supporters know something that our government does not? Get real! Hanson and her supporters get their opinions from like minded bigots on the internet – she would never be allowed access to the material available to our the public servants and military intelligence agencies that advise the National Security Council, and the relevant Ministers and military. They don’t always get it right but they have a lot more idea of what is happening than Hanson or any of her supporters in Bauple or Drayton North or wherever else they live.
Lovely to HATE someone…does it make you feel greener? Let the muslim, women bashing homophobes in you say…Me toooo.
I noticed a lot of your Byron Rednecks voted for her.. and, per capita NSW wins hands down… must be a Rugby, replacement, looser, thang
heeyaaar
Dear Mandy
Please stop insulting cats
O Mandy, you are very game to voice all that…..good on you to say it like it is!!
For her many downsides, Pauline Hanson is also prepared to loudly criticise the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the sell-off of Australian farmland to overseas interests.
Martin The reason Hanson criticizes the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the sell-off of Australian farmland to overseas interests is because she is xenophobic and nationalistic. Like too many on the left, she is incapable of imagining a world in which Australia can confidently trade off its comparative advantages, including with one of the world’s biggest economies. That is not to deny legitimate criticism of aspects of the Treaty, but if your starting point is economic nationalism you end up doing a disservice to our nation, because you lack confidence in it. On rural investment, Australia has long had large areas of farmland held by overseas interests – most commonly English or US – and we would not enjoy our high standard of living without the productivity that flows form that capital investment – someone has to pay for all those fences and roads. But Hanson,and others too, bring a racist dimension by focusing on ownership by Chinese , who they are unable to imagine investing to our mutual benefit. Even if people like Hanson are careless of the disbenefits of their policies to our fellow humans overseas, it should be enough for them to know that our economy too suffers from these narrow views .
Rose had red hair.
everyone is entitled to an opinion….as long as they agree with me
I see the day when the life which we know it will be gone. Only then the questions will be asked – why wasn’t something done to prevent it. Since this is a free country and since we do have the right to free speech, it is being eroded by complacency, political correctness (because God forbid if we should hurt someone’s feelings) and stupidity. Those 3 things are the undoing of the western world. Love does not conquer all, an unfortunate truth. So while you may not like some of the things some of the people say, nor may you like the way that they look, you can thank the millions of people who died for a cause, the same cause which enables you to be able to say what you feel. The thought of living with a totalitarian dictatorship/ government, where you are not allowed to have a differing opinion and your freedom is controlled in every way, is very frightening and is also a very real possibility.
Don’t kill the messenger… kill the message. We need to criticise people like Pauline, critical thinking…discrimination.
OH dear……Mandy, mandy mandy……why am I left with a strange feeling. It’s like I just had a great dump but the emptiness feels somewhat empty.
Nice to off load but I felt to say that perhaps you should go and learn Aikido, well the principles at least. Perhaps go to some communication workshops and explore outcomes or win/win possibilities.
How is it I agree with you and feel uncomfortable……surely the old cliche, “You can’t cure hate with hate”.
Maybe a cup of tea with the dalai lama might help you get over your aversion.
all the best and may your and my and all the other white, racist bigoted and muslim bashes of the north coast and their hate filled hearts find some release. Not eternally but inwardly find that fear based contraction/seperation and hold yourself with some warmth, care and forgiveness.
I am curious if the remaining souls of Iraq (at least 300,000 dead) or Libya would rather live under the rule of their dictators, Sadam and Kadafi, or live in the hell hole their two countries are in now. All thanks to US led wars that are becoming clear were illegitimate. Few people know in a bloodless coup, Kadafi took his country, from a puppet democracy being bled dry by the French into a country with the highest HDI in continental Africa. HDI is Human Development Index as set by both the UN and the CIA.. There is such a thing as benevolent dictatorship. In an era of mass brain washing through the monopolized and deregulated media industry, we are all quickly becoming so stupid we don’t know we are stupid.
‘Tis rare for me to disagree with Ms Nolan but this time I must.
There is little that Ms Hanson and I could ever agree on however as a person absolutely committed to the concept of free speech & democracy (note, there is no requirement that that speech be smart) I must defend her right to speak her thoughts and to represent those who concur within our political process without being vilified as ‘crazy’ and stupid.
It concerns me deeply that there is a notion building across democratic countries from those on the left, where I sit, that those on the right are idiots, should shut-up, that they are crazy or racists or whatever (consider BREXIT). And if all else fails let’s denigrate their physical appearance. Satire works, debate works but personal hate and nastiness, not so much.
I also disagree that she brings out the worst in people. She is however expressing some people’s opinions and that is democracy. I personally would much prefer to deal with Pauline than people like Dutton et al that speak the words folks want to hear but show in their actions a deep lack of care for others (consider the islands drowning laughter caught on camera).
If we want to change racism, or homophobia (another of Ms Hanson’s prejudices) then let’s do it through good example, through satire and through debate. It seems to me that to “hate” someone for their opinions is as limited as hating people for their color, religion or sexuality etc. Furthermore saying I hate you and your mouth can only lead to provoking more stubbornness, more hate. Not what we need.
Very well said.
We have long been considering a move north. Originally it was Byron then Mullumbimby but now I leaning toward Buderim on the Sunshine Coast. My partner is concerned because he just learned that this was Pauline Hanson heartland. I said that Queenslanders are very nice people who will talk to you at bus stops (and indeed on the actual bus) but you should never discuss politics with them. I am now also in a quandary! We are full on Greens with chickens, compost and a sticker on our recycling bin that says we are A grade Gold star recyclers. Does anyone have some advice for us?
Not sure if you are being tongue in cheek, but we actually faced that dilemma. We looked at the North Coast and liked Ballina. We also looked at the Sunshine Coast which has some advantages like better public transport and connections to Brissy. But as we drove up the Sunshine Motorway we saw a large “no Sharia Law” sign hanging on the side of the road. A real estate agent there was trying to persuade us to buy on the Sunshine Coast – the people she told us are much friendlier than those on the north coast. I mentioned I was born in Byron Bay, and also the “no Sharia law” sign. She obviously got the wrong end of the stick – she responded “oh yes we don’t want Sharia law here”. We bought a house in Ballina!
“We are full on Greens with chickens, compost and a sticker on our recycling bin that says we are A grade Gold star recyclers”.
Is this satire?
Mandy is so right – one crazy begets another – always the way – as if life can’t be good if we try to get along with “so-called” foreigners and immigrants. Change brings fear to people like Pauline because they trualy have difficulty with it. Her style though incites more fear. Try to remember the intermingled nature of human existence – we can get along because we’re all humans. We got horses from Arabs – any Aussie happen to like a bet on the nags? Oh, right yeh oh. 100/1 on Paulineemeenie. Decimal system/number system also comes from Arabs – are these foreign to? Should we start banning them and send them back to where they came from? Duh brains – wake up! thx for trying to raise consciousness Mandy Nolan. Good Job!
Interesting contradiction; to condemn prejudice and yet brand a whole state as redneck because of the vote of less than 10% of it’s population :-/
Stupid?- Dont mention De Natalie who doesnt know difference between carbon and carbon dioxide.
Islamophobia?- Dont mention latest atrocity in France…..
Are you suggesting that the atrocity in France justifies islamaphobia? The person in question was also French speaking – so why not use it to justify Fraco-phobia. And he was driving a truck – now truck drivers always make a good target. Does it not occur to your that the overwhelming majority of Muslims are as appalled by what has occurred there as you and I are – and if you do not believe me read some of the polling undertaken in Islamic countries like Indonesia. The horror of the minority of extremists is no justification whatsoever for the harassment of people because of their faith – the common term for it is bigotry.
there’s nothing big about being a bigot.
You might be interest in this tip bit Mandy during the election Hanson and the “Ferret” Peter Slipper ex flew to Townsville to beg for help from John Pasquarrelli. The nose who nose.
Four years later. Islam promotes a State religion. So imams advise their constituents not to take part in secular government. Some might still vote. The last I looked Australia has a secular system derived from English philosophy and a lot of struggle to put an end to religious war. Sounds to me there’s more struggle to come.