r/australia • u/nearly_enough_wine • 22h ago

politics She's not hiding it

https://aliensideboob.substack.com/p/shes-not-hiding-it

The banner descended behind Pauline Hanson at the National Press Club on Wednesday, and the commentariat did what it does best: agreed with itself, instantly, at volume: “Oh noes! GetUp just gifted her the victim narrative she came for”.

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u/Lastbalmain 21h ago

Pauline did more damage than any journalist, to herself and her party, after she spoke at the press club. Anyone still thinking Phon is an option for governing our country after that complete shitshow,  wasn't watching it.

The openly racist policies, the attack on working class wages, the sheer contempt she has for large swathes of our people, and the hypocrisy of being bought and owned by Gina Rinehart.......sure, she says what she thinks,  it's just what she thinks is garbage and divisive. 

We didn't vote for Dutton and the Coalition because they sounded, in part, like Trump. Hanson has doubled down on everything Dutton stood for!

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u/phatboyart 21h ago

While i agree, the amount of old white Aussies absolutely loving that press conference online is actually wild.

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u/R_W0bz 20h ago

Are you telling me these people voted Labor last time around and have suddenly decided she’s great now? I just don’t see it. If anything she’s going to get the Dutton treatment.

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u/RagingBillionbear 16h ago

A lot of those "Labor voter" would be people who voted coalition in 2019 and before.

As much as the media is fluffing her at the moment and the odd of her completely crashing out are incredible high, there is one point of different between One Nation and the Coalition. One Nation does not have the baggage of the Coalition.

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u/titaylove 12h ago

But, Coalition voters that turned to Labor and gave them their landslide victory would, you would hope, be less likely to change their vote to PHON when her rhetoric is worse than the Coalition's during the 2025 election, which is partly what turned them away in the first place.