Pauline Hanson
The Labor Party never stop spinning. The Greens and the Nationals candidates stormed past Pauline Hanson on Tuesday to fill the last two seats in the NSW upper house. But Labor is now trying to take credit for stopping Pauline Hanson spreading her divisive politics for the next eight years.
The major stars of the ‘stop Pauline Hanson show’ were the large number of Greens voters. A record 453,125 people voted Greens in NSW on March 26. That’s four and a half times as many people as the 98,043 who voted for Pauline Hanson.
The Greens did gain an extra 3,738 votes from Labor preferences.
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Yesterday, Pauline Hanson’s umpteenth attempt to climb out of the political grave ended in failure. But only just.
If NSW Labor had not extended Legislative Council preferences to the Greens Party, Hanson would be sitting on red leather for all of the next eight years, availing herself of parliamentary privilege to once again inject her poison into the Australian body politic.
The fact is, Labor preferences elected a Greens Party candidate over the top of Pauline Hanson.
Continue reading "Red, Green and Pauline: How Hanson was held back" »
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Carol White says:
Luke Foley is ok. Read more »
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James Darby says:
Luke Foley: You write “........ herself of parliamentary privilege to once again inject her poison into the Australian body politic.” Had you described the Greens as ‘socialist tools with the plan to engage Australia in a World Government that will remove property rights and enslave all in poverty’ your statement… Read more »
Pauline Hanson today again pleaded: “They’re picking on me.”
She lost her bid for an eight-year sinecure in the NSW Upper House, the plushest retirement home in Australian politics, and has to blame someone.
The fact that the Labor Party, the Liberals, the Nationals, the Greens, Christian Democrats, Shooters and Fishers didn’t run dead for her was a sign of conspiracy.
Continue reading "So long, Pauline, and thanks for all the fish…" »
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Suzy says:
Bwah!! She lost and now she says the voting system is unfair. I am over people whining because they did not win. The fish started stinking a long time ago. Get over it and move on. Read more »
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Gek says:
It’s true, Hanson did get the highest number of votes of any single candidate - 20,004 in fact, an astonishing 0.49% of the total vote. So with a first past the post voting system the first candidate elected would have been someone who 99.5% of people did NOT vote for.… Read more »
The Greens are taking The Punch to the Press Council over my column of last Friday accusing them of pushing Pauline Hanson ahead of the ALP by refusing a preference swap with Labor at last weekend’s NSW election.
If the Press Council rules against us we will happily publish its ruling on the site, as we have done in the past.
Advertiser political editor Mark Kenny used the same terminology as I did on Saturday to describe the Greens’ position, but re-worded it after the party complained to avoid an ongoing stoush. I’m happy to let the stoush continue.
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rob613 says:
Still haven’t corrected your ‘story’ David? I wonder how brave you would be if you did not have uncle Rupert’s small army of lawyers to protect you against libel claims? Read more »
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Doug Evans says:
Of course you’re not apologizing. Someone who apologizes thinks he/she has have some journalistic integrity. Why would you apologize? Published lies gain enough credibility to give disingenuous politicians the material they need for their next doorstop and always suck in a few punters. You’ve done OK. And it’s so embarrassing… Read more »
The NSW election was limping along with numbing predictability, like a circus missing one of its three rings, when the most persistent name in politics emerged to make the spectacle complete.
Pauline Hanson has decided not to emigrate to Britain as she declared last year, to not abandon bids for election as she had vowed several times.
She has decided instead to ignore her total absence from political debate in NSW and run with a bunch of buddies for the State Upper House.
Pauline is back, and finally that missing clown ring has been restored to the campaign circus.
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Thommo the Enlightened says:
What a load of bollocks. No wonder no one listens to the pretentious types any more. Always trying to make their position sound hoity toity - well you’re full of shit and I can smell it from here. And guess what - Hanson is almost in. Priceless Read more »
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Tanya says:
Unfortunately, Pauline is motivated by racial hatred that is borne of her personal psyche and experience. She is not able to contextualise it on a social, economic or political level because she is devoid of that level of understanding. Therefore it translates to – these people migrate to Australia and… Read more »
You can’t blame Pauline Hanson for stipulating that her Brisbane home not be sold to a Muslim. Just imagine what they would get up to in there. All those lovely Heuga carpet squares covered with prayer mats, the fridge stripped of ham steaks and pineapple rings to make way for so-called “halal” tucker, the Hills Hoist replaced with a minaret, the Commodore with a WRX.
The concrete Aborigine, gone. And possibly even the installation of a complex network of underground caves from which Jihad – or “holy war” - can be launched on the people of Coleyville in the first step towards establishing an Islamic caliphate running from Caloundra to Surfers Paradise.
Hanson’s latest spray is consistent with her past efforts in that it is both unworkable and irrational.
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gary wright says:
Your article proves you are Australian becuase you have adopted a modified Australian lifestyle and you say you love this country. If that is true, then that is all you have to do. You will never lose your heritage nor should you. All immigrants experience the feelings you describe. All… Read more »
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PunchDrunk says:
In hindsight, Pauline was a prophet in her own time, however, the politicians were not listening. Read more »
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.
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Some of the highlights are reprinted below. Further suggestions welcome in the comments, and we’ll update the map with any highlights.
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Jeff Mueller says:
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… Read more »
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Pete L. says:
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… Read more »
Don’t let the door hit you on the arse on the way out, will be the sentiment from a lot people if Pauline Hanson keeps her promise and moves to the UK for good.
Ms Hanson has told Woman’s Day that Australia is no longer the land of opportunity and she’s looking for a peaceful, less notorious existence.
But we’d all do well not to forget about the former fish and chip shop owner-turned politician. For the past decade and a half Hanson has served as a powerful warning to politicians and the media of the dangers of forgetting to ask people what they think.
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Sonja says:
Pauline come back to politics please!!! i like you do not trust Julia Gillard she is a back stabbing @#%&@!. And as for that idiot Abbot from the libs well they can keep him. Australia is going down the gurgler and fast, what we need is someone to lead and… Read more »
Type the words “Steve Fielding” and “idiot” into Google and you get 14,300 hits. Many of these entries came in the past few days, most of them on blog sites, many of which have one author and as many readers, as the nation’s smarty-pants pundits seized on Fielding’s “fiskal” fiasco as proof that the guy is as dumb as a box of rocks.
Now I’m not going to pretend that my reaction upon seeing the footage of his doorstop spelling bee wasn’t one of unbridled hilarity. I almost spat my coffee out.
And when I’d regained my composure, I called my workmates over to ask if they too had seen the Family First Senator blundering his way through a doorstop where, after referring three times to “physical” policy instead of “fiscal”, he insisted he knew what he was talking about by offering to spell the word.
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AM says:
Who is not compatible with australian society,hanson who is leaving or muslims who are calling australia home? As if we muslims are in the que to buy her house.probly her house stinks like her stupid comments & actions.not only her hair but her neck is red too.any way good luck… Read more »
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Bob Higgins says:
Pauline Hansen provided us with a peek through the curtains at how our democracy works. Stupid as she was she was a threat to the large, highly organised and well financed duopoly and they weren’t going to let anybody else play with their toys. They joined together to destroy her… Read more »
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