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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
I'm Daniel James and you're listening to 7am.
Chapter 2: What is Pauline Hanson's vision for Australia as a monoculture?
Pauline Hanson's call for Australia to become a monoculture was meant to draw a line around national identity. Instead, it opened up a new split inside the Liberal Party. This week, the idea left opposition leader Angus Taylor looking bewildered, unable to say clearly where he stood on multiculturalism.
Andrew Hastie took the opposite approach in navigating the challenge presented by One Nation, launching a full assault on One Nation from inside the coalition party room. And as the right fights over Hanson's rise, a new party from two-teal independents is trying to offer voters another way out.
Today, news.com.au political editor Samantha Maiden, on a week of conservative confusion, one-nation pressure, and the teal independents trying to turn disillusionment into votes. It's Saturday, June 27th. Sam, good to see you again. Pauline Hanson spoke more about her infamous monocultural idea in a Senate speech this week.
Apparently Italian pastor and Chinese takeaway are okay in the monoculture. So are 80s icons Paul Hogan and Norman Gunston, a personal favourite.
Bring back Paul Hogan and Norman Gunston. These are the essential features of Australian monoculture and there's nothing remotely exclusionary about them.
And the Socceroos are actually an example of the monoculture, even though it goes against everything that they actually stand for. Did that clear things up for you, Sam? Because they didn't really clear things up for me.
Look, I'll tell you what I think, and you might not like it.
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Chapter 3: How did Angus Taylor respond to the monoculture debate?
I think that what Pauline Hanson is doing right now is really politically diabolically smart because she's come up with this word that drives progressive Australia, left-wing Australia absolutely bonkers. And then everyone comes out of their hidey hole to debate it and discuss it. And I'm not saying you shouldn't do that. Like it's a free country.
And I think it's legitimate to question our political leaders and what they say. But the more people do that, the more we're just, everyone's talking about Pauline Hanson. So that's exactly where she wants to be. And so I suppose if you go looking for
Chapter 4: What tactics did Andrew Hastie use against One Nation?
coherence and you know like a policy agenda that is is completely logical right well you're going to get sad and angry and then the media is just going to keep talking about pauline I mean, she actually started, I think she first said it in the press club, right? Yeah. But then Angus Taylor gets asked about it. He doesn't have a proper answer.
On the same day, actually, before Angus Taylor's press conference, Andrew Hastie comes out, you know, jumping into the Coalition party room with his war paint on and says, you know, I'd rather go out in a box than bend the knee to Pauline Hanson. It was like real... Law! Tarzan Act, right?
And then elbows in Parliament accusing Angus of not being as strong as the Member for Canning, who is, of course, Andrew Hastie.
Chapter 5: What alternative political options are emerging in Australia?
And everybody's talking about Pauline, right?
And that's exactly what she wants, right?
Isn't the risk, though, Sam, that people are going to get bored of it, though? I mean, we're still two years out from election. If we're all talking about Pauline, like we are constantly at the moment after the NPC address, that we'll actually get bored over time by the repetition of it.
I don't think that they're going to be able to maintain this level of support all the way to 2028, right? So I think that they're hitting their straps at the wrong moment in the political timeline. In Pauline Hanson's favour, you know, like right now they're raking in the donations, right?
Chapter 6: How is the Liberal Party reacting to internal divisions?
That's going to help them build a really strong war chest for for, you know, the fight that they're going to have in the future. But she's pulled out. I mean, I don't know how much she would have paid on those Fire the Liar trucks. And then she's parking them out the front of Parliament House and then she's having the blues with the journos. So it's all very Trump-esque.
but I'm not sure that wind is going to be in her sails at the right moment. That doesn't mean that like she wouldn't pick up seats at the next election. I'm sure she could and would and will, or that she won't prove a terrible problem for the Liberals. But I don't think that she's in a position to form government. And I don't think there's any poll that suggests that.
And so I think that when people run around going, Pauline Hanson is going to be the PM. I think that's rubbish. I think what would be really fascinating is if, you know, if an election was held right now, she would emerge as the new opposition, right? And that would be, wow, a big change.
But I think the more accurate reflection of what's really going on in Australian politics right now is it's more closely aligned with the UK. So you're getting that thing where everything's divided a third, a third, a third. The Labor government is on a really low primary. The Conservatives are completely shot to smotherines and don't really know if they're Arthur or Martha.
And then you've got this resurgent reform UK under the Nigel Farage banner. It's really the same thing in a lot of ways.
It really is. One of the things that this discussion around monoculture has done, as you alluded to, Sam, has really tied Angus Taylor up in knots.
People coming to this country must adhere to these values. That is what I want to see. We will discriminate. Coexist with multiculturalism is the question. Well, I don't quite know what you mean by that question, but what I mean, I can tell you what I mean.
He sidestepped five questions earlier this week about whether he supported multiculturalism. What did you make of that? Oh, I thought it was a hot mess.
Just to be clear, Mr Taylor, do you believe Australia should be a monoculture? You explain to me what you mean by that. You see, there's all these vague words running around. But I tell you what, the one thing I want all of us to share is those core Australian values.
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Chapter 7: What challenges does Angus Taylor face as a leader?
Like community. I still can't remember it. Can you tell me it again? Community Stronger Australia. Community Stronger Australia.
CSA.
Okay, I think it's terrible. That's what I think. And, like, all it does is make everyone go this criticism, which I don't think is necessarily fair, but, you know, half of them are in and half of them are out and half of them are like, oh, we wish them the best but we're not joining.
I guess the idea is to give an alternative to One Nation for those who are disillusioned with the major parties but don't necessarily.
Yeah, with a really bad name and a really kind of, like, unclear agenda.
Is there room for an option like that, do you think, whether it's these guys or someone else?
Yeah, if it wasn't run by people that choose the most boring name for a party on earth, maybe. One Nation is really clear, right? And it's also One Nation, dare I say it, monoculturalism. It's clear what they stand for and they've been around for 20 years. Community Stronger Australia is just, it's terrible.
Aside from the name, do you think they're going to be able to cut through? Do you think there's a space for them in the current political landscape?
No, because... Look one of their strengths, I think,
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