I had to look up the speech to check if this was an accurate representation or whether that ellipsis was doing a lot of work, and while it's not verbatim, it's very much close enough:
In the 2021 census, more than half of Australian residents, 51.5% were born overseas or had one parent born overseas.
51.5%.
Is that what supported by the Australian electorate? Is that what Australia wants?
Link to speech at 8m29s: https://youtu.be/mMHm9EzrobY?t=509
I don't think I could manage to listen to her speak for over 8 minutes, so here's a tldw:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/pauline-hanson-press-club-address-banner-stunt-one-nation/106808570
PM Pauline's wishlist:
That looks like a pretty solid 'go after the white boomer vote' checklist to me. I saw her last year, in person she looks oooold. That trademark hair is all fake these days, she's in her 70's now. Fairly standard boomer look. Going for the boomer vote is a strategy has been failing the Liberal party of late, there just aren't enough boomers any more. But if she wins them then yeah - she might get a third of the vote.
She doesn't care about maths. She cares about making the bigots feel confident enough to express their bigotry. She wants her voter base to feel powerful and also persecuted, so she'll switch frames of reference as needed.
The whole "we need to make it easier for bosses to fire workers" thing also seems like it should have tanked..
Kick out all the British born, leave it for the indigenous people! That's most of the population of Australia.
How are you going to literally say that the majority of people are/have/do X and then ask if the people want that?
"You're black."
"Yep."
"And you find this... acceptable?"
Honestly as shit a take as it, it doesn't matter to the average ONP supporter, the racism at this point is the draw.
I think the more interesting way to convince people is point out that she wants to use the government to impose her values on the population. Tell them she wants to make church on Sundays compulsory, that she'll close down Chinese restaurants in their home town to give support fish and chip shops and other ridiculous shit
Hey that's me! My mum was a Kiwi. Despite my family having been on this island for at least 200 years, my ancestors weren't bigots, so some of them married foreigners! gasp
That's an odd strategy to run in a country like Australia.
A healthy, broadly educated population, which feels safe and secure, is incompatible with, and toxic to, conservative and authoritarian ideologies.
They need you to be sick, stupid, and scared.
When your talking point is "you bastards shouldn't exist in the first place. Vote for me!"
Quite ironic from a european view; there are two continents that were settled only a few centuries ago and their residents already call others "foreigners".
Oh wow, do we get Pauline Hanson propaganda here too?
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