Australia's One Nation leader Pauline Hanson addressed the National Press Club in Canberra yesterday for the first time in her 30-year political career.
In her wide-ranging speech, Pauline Hanson targeted rising social inequity and culture-war issues in a call for Australia to be a "monocultural nation.
Support for One Nation rose earlier this month, placing Hanson ahead of Anthony Albanese as preferred prime minister.
What Pauline Hanson revealed during major address
Immigration and culture
- "Don't expect a divisive Welcome to Country from me" - on how to start a speech.
- "We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural" - on firming up English language requirements for migrants.
- "I will not walk away from my commitment to get rid of social cancer" - on Muslim hate preachers.
- "Other political parties are simply following me" - on Labor and the Liberal vowing to reduce immigration.
Energy
- "The central source of national poverty" - on unaffordable energy, which Senator Hanson proposes to remedy with more coal, gas, and nuclear instead of "net-zero nonsense".
- "Put it up on your roofs, I don't care" - on blocking solar panels being built on farmland, along with all wind turbines.
Economy
- "How can we hold our heads up? ... it's disgraceful, and yet the Albanese Labor government ... floods this country time and time again" - on the cost-of-living crisis and rising indicators of poverty.
- "Dr Chalmers has a PhD from ANU, writing about the Keating government. Well, he hasn't learned much" - on national debt sitting at $1 trillion and government spending reaching 28 per cent of GDP.
- "That's all smoke and mirrors" - on the gender pay gap.
Media
- "There's no need for it anymore. The internet has overtaken the need for it" - on the SBS, which Senator Hanson says will be "gone".
- "The arrogance is stunning in its scope" - on alleged bias at the ABC, which Senator Hanson says would be a subscription service in metro areas under One Nation.
Exchanges with journalists
- "I've never seen a person that's such a trashy journalist ... don't come near me" - to a Guardian reporter who asked whether Senator Hanson had intervened to get her daughter a job as an adviser to NSW senator Sean Bell.
- "You're gonna be out of a job" - to an SBS journalist asking why One Nation would scrap SBS if it translates Australian news for migrants seeking to integrate.
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