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Antarctica, ‘cos it’s white: ideas for Pauline’s new home

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by Paul Colgan

16 Feb 05:30am

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Filed under: Emigration, One Nation, Pauline Hanson, Politics

24 comments

On the map below are some of your suggestions for an alternative new home for Pauline Hanson following her decision to emigrate, following a call to complete this sentence: Pauline Hanson should move to (location) because (of this reason).

Click on the Pauline markers to see the various suggestions or you can see a larger version of the map here.


View Pauline Hanson should move to ... in a larger map

Some of the highlights are reprinted below. Further suggestions welcome in the comments, and we’ll update the map with any highlights.

@nadine_lee: Pauline Hanson should move overseas because one nation shouldn’t have all the fun.

@JimiHopkins: Pauline Hanson should move to Summer Bay because she’s a flaming galah.

@australiavotes: Pauline Hanson should move to Oman because oh man that would be funny.

@rickeyre: Pauline Hanson should move to Wasilla, Alaska because they miss having Sarah Palin as mayor.

Over to you…

Most commented

414Australia, you have nothing to fear but fear itself
353"Gifting", "journey" and other words we hate
309Thomson didn't answer the question everyone is asking
255Who murdered the Arts degree?
246A big day for Thomson, who thus far is guilty of nothing...
231Craig Thomson speaks. Meanwhile, in Australia...
230South Australia. It's the middle bottom bit.
224The most laughable, err, spoof since Einfeld

24 comments

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    • ~Bug Catcher~ says:

      06:59am | 16/02/10

      Pauline Hanson should move to Canberra and become the first female Australian Prime Minister.

      Reply

    • Seano says:

      01:58pm | 16/02/10

      Then she can close the borders, print more money and send it to us as Christmas pressies. Yay.

    • Liz says:

      07:26am | 16/02/10

      Amazed she’s moving to Britain,has she been there lately?

      Reply

    • Tim Chapman says:

      08:00am | 16/02/10

      I think ‘love it or leave it’ was one of her slogans, so I guess now we know how she really feels. The negative comments she made about Australia when announcing her departure are one final ungracious act from a woman who we can now conclude always loved herself but never her country.

      Reply

    • Jack Thomas says:

      03:02pm | 16/02/10

      Funny that the word “ungarcious” is mentioned when so many posters all show exactly the same sentiments.

      The media, and that includes The Punch, helped whip up this moron into such a figure. The Leftards blame John Howard for her rise and use the old dog whistle line, but he didn’t make her front page news did he?

      Sometimes I think the the Leftards actually want to keep the likes of Pauline Hanson around, because it makes them feel better as they taint all those Aussies who disagree with them as racist.

      If she wants to go, good let her.

      But you just show what lesser people you are by using the opportunity to bag her along the way. She doesn’t need more articles from you muppets.

      It just show your lack of any real standards.

    • fluffy says:

      09:40am | 17/02/10

      very gracious use of the word leftards there muppet. a fine standard.

    • Sadhbh says:

      09:00am | 16/02/10

      How about the Vatican? Very white, very conservative, hoarding all it’s wealth and definately a land of opportunity. Just not for her.

      Reply

    • James says:

      09:10am | 16/02/10

      Wow Pauline Hanson as PM.  Terrifying.  Her economic policies make the ALP look like Milton Friedman.

      Reply

    • Zeta says:

      09:12am | 16/02/10

      COMING IN 2010 on Channel 4: ALL AUSTRALIAN, ALL FEMALE BIG BROTHER GLADIATORS:

      “Pauline Hanson is a washed up politician who hates darkies, and knows her way around a high powered sniper rifle. Germaine Greer is a feisty feminist granny with a sharp tongue and diamond tipped, razor sharp claws. Tina Arena is a former pop star, French immegre, and demolitions expert. Watch them this Summer as they fight their way out of a specially designed, booby-trapped maze. If you’re a drunken lout or a slutty backpacker knocking around a dodgy pub drinking Fosters, TXT ‘AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE, OI OI OI’ for your chance to be fitted with a remote detonated explosive and be parachuted into Doncaster to join the battle for Europe’s Next Top Ex Pat! The winner will personally execute Peter Andre live in front of an international audience! Hosted by Danni Minogue.”

      Reply

    • Bedazzled says:

      04:41pm | 16/02/10

      Wow!... your kind of humour is just what one would expect from a Paulin Hanson hater..
      Very tasteful!

    • Martin G says:

      10:28am | 16/02/10

      Is this what counts under your definition of political debate these days, Colgo? Well it certainly doesn’t come under comedy since it lack humour. Maybe she moved to get away from people who play the man (woman) and not the ball?

      Reply

    • Karen M says:

      11:20am | 16/02/10

      Paulines views are NOT mine but I wish her the best in her new country and wish her the wisdom to grow gracefully into old age and leave her comments packed in the cupboard. Her views might not be so “tolerated” in Great Britan

      Reply

    • stephen says:

      01:37pm | 16/02/10

      Stick her right in the middle of the deep-blue-sea.

      Reply

    • Brad Coward says:

      02:01pm | 16/02/10

      I note with interest that your backside appears nowhere on the map, Colgo !  Hanson is on par with Lindy Chamberlain as the most maligned woman in the history of this country.  During Hanson’s “heyday” the press never bothered to report her comments verbatim.  She was judged by fifteen second sound bites.  If she said something, the journo added spin and reported.  If she said nothing, the journo added spin and reported.  Let’s just say that I appreciate hearing both sides of the argument before I make up my mind.  Hanson was never given the opportunity to make a statement in full to be reported in full.  Interested parties had to look beyond the daily rags and “current affairs” television shows to seek information about what did or didn’t make her tick.

      Pretend as you might, the journo can virtually say anything about anyone and get away with it.  Even if an individual, villified by the media, takes legal action and wins…the individual is always tainted by the stink of inuendo. 

      Pauline Hanson, love or hate her…she was created my the media because the media needed someone to kick.  Clearly the tradition continues.

      Reply

    • Jeff Mueller says:

      02:18pm | 16/02/10

      She could make agreat deal of money as a voice coach in Indian call centres ‘Hoi, it’s Pauline heeyah . . .

      Reply

    • Brad Coward says:

      03:39pm | 16/02/10

      .....and when Jeff Mueller speaks he almost outdoes Prince Charles in the “plum in the mouth” department !  Of course, young Jeff is a portrait in oils in the visuals !

    • Jeff Mueller says:

      03:25pm | 18/02/10

      No actually Brad, I have a standard Australian accent, and my comment was about the way in which Indian call-centres are instructing their workers to match their accents to their target groups.  How you think youuknow what I look like I’ll never know, though of course, that’s not your real name.  As it happens I look quite a bit like Ms Hanson, though my legs are better.

    • Kim says:

      03:37pm | 16/02/10

      PhilWillis - you made my day.  LOL smile

      Reply

    • CCpc says:

      03:50pm | 16/02/10

      Hi Brad,

      Just to give you a little hand with empathetic - if not sympathetic - reporting of Pauline Hanson, try a Michelle Grattan book - sorry cant remember the name but was an excellent account of her campaign and I think fairly accurate depiction of many of her supporters.

      Reply

    • Wilson says:

      06:25pm | 16/02/10

      It,s always amazed me how such a policy as immigration, which will have such a profound effect on our nations future, more so than any other policy, has avoided full-on ,open debate that all others naturally have.  What set Pauline apart was her courage ( or stupidity ) to challenge the status quo. She obviously believed the old adage,” i may not agree with what you,re saying but i,d defend to the death your right to say it ” ( a supposed cornerstone of our democracy ) applied in this country.
      Open political debate on ALL issues , with none sacred, is what should set us apart from most other countries.
      Hey Paul, there are many single- party countries with no debate allowed, where public ridcule of disentors is the norm. Perhaps you might be interested in migrating to one of them . We could kill 2 birds with the one stone.Get rid of one person with the courage to speak out, and another who can,t tolerate that unless he agrees with them.
      If the folks that have guided immigration here for so long have always got it right, why don,t we switch them over to other portfolios so they can always get them right as well? Sounds good to me.
      Like her or hate her, at least she had a go.

      Reply

    • Pete L. says:

      09:49pm | 17/02/10

      Well said Wilson. And I think it’s obvious the opinions of many with regard to immigration never changed, it was just forced below the surface to come up again at some future point in time (imo soon, given recent trends) and might therefore take on an uglier aspect. A short-term fix that did nothing to solve a longer-term problem, and for many a real issue in Australian society. That’s what happens when you deny people the right to at least debate these critical issues in a public/political setting. And thats what I think is the silly thing in all this - ok, you’re happy with immigration, you love a big population, diversity - but what about the people who don’t? Ok so you can poke fun at them and call them bogan’s if it makes you feel better. You can try to ‘educate’ them but what if they’re as set in their views as you are? I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw ‘Pauline’s revenge’ in the form of a new populist party coming to Australia sometime in the next 10-15 years or so. Except something tells me this time they’d stick around for a while.

    • The red headed terror. says:

      08:17pm | 16/02/10

      Hi Zeta,
      you say ::::“Pauline Hanson is a washed up politician who hates darkies’. This comment, may have been viewed/pushed by the media, at that time of the Pauline Hanson saga, which incidentally was called ‘the softer part of Aust. Politics’,( those who have study Politics may be familiar)  Ref:  Prof. of Politics, Gregory Melleuish in his Book “the Packaging of Australia - Politics and Culture Wars.
      Basically Hanson called an ace an ace, she blurped out the grips and complaints of most if not all Australians including the Gove. in Power both sides were griping/bellyaching about.  The only difference is that she make a a real note, song and dance about it, betting her male pollie opponents to the punch.  OOPs their thought, we better not go down that track. She did.  The media absolutely crucified her.  No message were punishing enough as far as the pollies were concern!  She saved their arse. How happy they were.

      Reply

    • James says:

      01:45pm | 17/02/10

      Nice avoidance of the word “spade” there.  It would have brought the whole thing undone, had you not switched it for “ace”.

      That said, what are you trying to say?  That all Australian support her views?  In my own (admittedly anecdotal) experience, the only people who I have met that supported here were racists who wanted to keep “darkies” out, and the unemployed, who seemed to believe that if we shut ourselves off from the world, they would be inclined to get a job.

    • Pete L. says:

      10:00pm | 17/02/10

      I think it was quite a few more than that, James, at least in Queensland. I remember when she first became ‘big’, all sorts of random people from various walks of life would say things like ‘She’s just saying what we think’. And she did, in my opinion - right or wrong, she merely vocalized in a public/political setting what a lot of Australians thought. The majority? Probably not, but no small number.

      Reply
 
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