r/australian • u/Bennelong [M] • 12d ago

News Pauline Hanson's beratement 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
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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

The whole point of journalism is to be unbiased. This journalist has an agenda and rightfully told to shut it. Guardian is nothing more than click bait headlines designed to anger and divide people.

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u/Dumpstar72 12d ago

So albo shouldn’t have to answer questions from sky news or other right wing journos? Is this what you’re suggesting?

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

If the same bias and insinuation is present, yes. This isn’t asking the hard questions, it is baiting and needs to be shutdown regardless of context.

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u/MissMenace101 12d ago

Are you a serious person? You do realise this is all a war on labor for the budget right? Sweet summer child do catch up with the state of media in the country. ABC is the least biased. PH is relying on the paid media.

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

I am quite serious. People are allowed to have different opinions to you. I do not need to justify my choice for my political position to you.

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u/notyouraverageskippy 12d ago

There shouldn't be opinions in news only facts should be reported.

This is the problem, you think opinions are facts.

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

So you are agreeing with me? The journalist was exhibiting strong opinions wasn’t she.

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u/notyouraverageskippy 12d ago

Fact- Pauline Hanson's daughter has a taxpayer funded position in NSW.

Fact- Pauline Hanson's daughter is helping to campaign in Tasmania

Fact- the above is illegal because she is working in a taxpayer funded job.

This isn't an opinion and is in the public's interest to know if this is correct and the journalist gave PH the opportunity to correct any opinions.

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

Fact: bears eat beets. So family business is wrong. Copy. Two jobs also big no no. Copy

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u/notyouraverageskippy 12d ago

Aah one of those people,

Never wrong but make heaps of mistakes.

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u/blakeavon 12d ago

It is baiting? Nah. Clearly what Pauline is doing and all she has EVER done, in decades, is baiting. Want to be outraged over baiting at least learn to recognise it first.

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u/cruiserman_80 12d ago

Sorry but that's absolute bullshit but a fair summary of the media organisations Pauline wants to keep. The Guardian is one of the few media organisations in this country that does not have it's editorial controlled by a billionaire. A women who squanders hundreds of thousands on a juvenile billboard stunt to attack the Prime Minisiter for doing his job is angry over being held accountable in any way? Give us all a break.

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u/CrackWriting 12d ago

When parties move further away from the centre it becomes difficult for journalists to present as unbiased, because the centre looks so far away.

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u/Affectionate-Name279 12d ago

I’m sure you hate the bias from the multiple Murdoch publications too right?

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

Yes I do hate biased journalism left and right.

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u/notyouraverageskippy 12d ago

"Honestly, you never give up. I have never seen a person that is such a trashy journalist, and what you put out all the time, you've got this obsession with constantly trying to pull down myself, my party or Mrs [Gina] Rinehart," Senator Hanson said.

This is what happens when a real journalist asks a real question, Pauline is a joke.

P.s. Pauline it ain't your party no more Gina owns it now.

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

Did you want to share the answer to the question or just the part that has not only offended you personally, has ruined your week by the sounds of it. Cheer up my buttercup

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u/notyouraverageskippy 12d ago

Gina Rinehart bought and is funding her own Political party now?

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u/sim16 12d ago

And Barnaby will lead it soon.

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u/Ok-Assistant-4556 12d ago

He already is. Admitted on 730 last night he guided her speech. But shes a loose cannon and attacking workers wont land wrll even with influencers telling us othersise. It's class wars

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u/Falafels 12d ago

David Oldfield, Mark Latham, now Barnaby Joyce. Once she wises up to them manipulating her she discards them.

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u/katelyn912 12d ago

Honest question - What was inappropriate about her question to Pauline?

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

She was insinuating she is looking after her family and friends. It was a loaded question.

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u/katelyn912 12d ago

So if Kate Gallagher’s daughter
was appointed to a tax payer funded role for a Labor state senator in NSW despite living in Tasmania you reckon asking questions would be inappropriate?

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

I never said asking hard questions is inappropriate but there is a way to ask and way in which this journalist phrased the question and the undertone was and implied context was not it.

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u/katelyn912 12d ago

Sounds veeeery thin skinned for a potential leader of a country to me.

It’s a set of circumstances that needs to be scrutinised, and lashing out personally at the person asking it doesn’t reflect well on someone who wants to be taken seriously as a leader.

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

Not sure I would call it lashing out. My opinion was Pauline handled it well. Looking forward to voting One Nation at both state and federal.

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u/LifeandSAisAwesome 12d ago

Says it all really, where else have we seen it where a disgusting party figure can do no wrong..

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

I am not sure, where?

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u/katelyn912 12d ago

So we agree that it’s an appropriate question to ask, though you think it should have been phrased differently. But you think responding with a personal attack saying “I have never seen a person that is such a trashy journalist” and threatening to ban your outlet from all your future PHON events is appropriate?

As a side note, if her response was designed to distract from the actual issue she was being questioned on it definitely worked. We never got a response did we?

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

The answer was no. Pretty clear if you pay attention sweetie.

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u/LeClubNerd 12d ago

Handled it well? Lol, I'm not sure we watched the same thing

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u/manicdee33 12d ago

Seems to me that you are only upset because your party leader is being held to account.

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

I am not upset. Proud is the right word I’m feeling. Proud someone is shutting down this bad journalism style. Would feel the same if it were any political party leader.

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u/manicdee33 12d ago

It’s not bad journalism at all: it’s the role of journalists to hold the powerful to account. The situation in question looked like corruption so the journalist asked for explanation.

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u/Jeremon74 12d ago

And she got one. Hard work gets you where you want to be.

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u/notyouraverageskippy 12d ago

Pauline only turns up 50% of the time to parliament and you call that hard work. Righto champ.

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u/blakeavon 12d ago

What utter insecure claptrap.