The Hon. John Ruddick
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And then what, so he's now this anti-racist crusader.
Okay, that's John Howard.
Now then with about two weeks to go before the 1996 election when Howard wins and an independent called Pauline Hanson won, what had happened is two weeks earlier is that Pauline Hanson was the Liberal candidate for the federal seat of Oxley, which is sort of Ipswich in Queensland.
Now that was Labor's safest seat.
And it was expected to be a big pro-liberal swing across the country, probably particularly in Queensland, but no one ever thought that Oxley would vote Liberal.
And so, but all the major political parties always want to run a candidate somewhere, every seat, even if you're going to get 10%, well, say, look, we're a major party, we've got to fly the flag, okay.
So the Liberals just put, they'll put up anybody.
I say, yeah, I'll put my hand up.
I think she'd been on the local council as a Liberal.
No, no, not as a Liberal, as an Independent.
And then the Liberal Party said, look, we need someone to run, it'll raise your profile, run for federal parliament, Paul, and you're not going to win, but it'll help you get re-elected to local council.
She said, okay, cool.
So she's the Liberal candidate for Oxley.
No one's paying any attention to her.
Then she gave an interview to the
Oxley newspaper.
And she said, I think Aborigines are getting too much welfare.
Hardly controversial, right?
But John Howard, because he was the opposition leader, and he's Mr. Anti-Racism.
He says, I've dealt with this.
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