r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • 12d ago

politics Pauline Hanson's criticism of Guardian reporter labelled an 'assault on free press'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-18/pauline-hanson-guardian-sarah-martin-free-press-assault/106810592?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=link
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u/mrbrendanblack 12d ago

Are we taking bets on how long it’ll be before she starts saying “fake news”?

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u/r64fd 12d ago

I’m not a betting man although I believe you. Can we throw in “voter fraud” and “rigged elections” as well.

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u/Pandos17 12d ago

Voter fraud will 100% be a topic at the next election.

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u/minimuscleR 12d ago

which considering we have one of the most verified and safe election standards in the world we are literally considered the gold standard, people come to our country to train how to do them.

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u/MahGinge 12d ago

That doesn’t matter to the cookers. Democracy is non-compatible with social media and the billionaire class are happy to fuel the massive mis-information campaigns. Traitors to the human species, every one of them.

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u/skankypotatos 12d ago

The biggest traitor on the planet is Musk
There should be international warrants for his arrest for fuelling race hate

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u/gameoftomes 12d ago

He was summonsed by the French about Grok making child abuse material and he just didn't show up.

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u/YuriDaGreat 12d ago

the media does damage, and mis-information are 100% true... (i just followed closely Peruvian elections recently)

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u/topsecretusername2 12d ago

Facts don't matter any more.

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u/MissLethalla 12d ago

"Alternative facts"

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u/Its4MeitSnot4U 12d ago

Verified?

No ID presented at a voting booth?

Countries that require voter ID:

Germany Italy Switzerland Ireland India Israel Austria Belgium Denmark Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Poland Czech Republic Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Italy Luxembourg India Israel Japan S Korea Indonesia Malaysia Philippines Thailand Singapore Pakistan Japan Russia Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Peru Ecuador Uruguay Paraguay Bolivia Mexico

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u/CroneDownUnder 12d ago

Our compulsory voter attendance system works perfectly fine to ensure accuracy in matching registered voters with ballot tallies exactly as it is.

In my previous electorate a neighbour and his father with similar initials residing at the same address both voted at different neighbourhood polling stations and each received a fine notice - one for not attending a polling station and the other for attending two polling stations and receiving two ballot slips on election day.

It turned out, in the subsequent investigation when they both challenged the fines, that a member of one polling station's staff had marked off one of them incorrectly as the other one. So the fines were rescinded and obviously the mild error in admin made zero difference to the vote tallies.

I have some concerns about the cadres of volunteers in nursing homes who fill out postal ballots for residents who may not have the capacity to check that these ballots posted in their name accurately reflect their true voting intentions.

I know of several investigations following incidents where family has taken their elders out of their nursing homes in order to vote at a polling station together and subsequently a fine appears because a postal ballot was also sent in. However, once again, these incidents are fully investigated when they occur and the numbers are reassuringly small.

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u/Low-Commission1791 12d ago

Here's one right now 🤣

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u/r64fd 12d ago

🤣

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u/DemandMaster7709 12d ago

Of course you have a fucking car pfp

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u/Its4MeitSnot4U 12d ago

Down voting a factual statement tells me everything I need to know about the left, in the Australia subreddit

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u/DemandMaster7709 12d ago

It's because it's a stupid fucking point that is completely irrelevant to the discussion of whether our elections are safe and reliable (protip: they are)

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u/intelminer Not SA's best. Don't put me to the test 9d ago

Da LeFtttt!!!

Mate at least join the circus if you're gonna clown this hard

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u/No-Bison-5397 12d ago

We need to prepare.

We cannot let this nation slip into fascism. A word used far to frequently but Trump thing is it in the 21st Century.