Protests, clashes and grievance politics: Pauline at the Press Club
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What are the key issues Pauline Hanson addresses in her Press Club speech?
Undeniably, immigration or immigration policy has our country in the state of crisis. At the centre of this crisis is the utterly flawed policy of multiculturalism.
For three decades, Pauline Hanson has built a career on grievance. In all that time, she has in front of the bastion of political journalism, the National Press Club. That was until yesterday, where she appeared for the first time.
Well, I am aware that I am at the National Press Club, but I am delighted that I can speak to the people of Australia and they are the people to whom I am accountable.
In a long address, she laid out how she aims to turn her politics of grievance into policy, targeting immigration, the ABC, multiculturalism, renewable energy, transgender rights and journalists themselves.
Honestly, you never give up. I've never seen a person that's had such a trashy journalist, you know.
It was a performance that will play to her base and one that helps explain her rise in the polls.
How does Pauline Hanson's performance reflect her political strategy?
But she also gave her opponents a clearer picture of what they're running against and what to target in the two years until the next election. I'm Daniel James and you're listening to 7A. Today, Press Gallery journalist Karen Middleton on Pauline Hanson's big moment and the fight now coming for One Nation. It's Thursday, June 18. Karen, good to see you again. Pauline Hanson has been in Australian politics for 30 years, but this was her first formal address to the National Press Club. What did you make of her performance? I thought, Daniel, she did pretty well. She didn't try to be something that she isn't. She was herself.
What specific immigration policies does Pauline Hanson propose?
She started with a bit of banter with the audience and setting a few things straight, putting things on the record. That probably put her at ease a bit. Is Channel 9 here?
I just want to clarify that, no, Gina's jet is not broken and I didn't come cattle class, or I did come cattle class, actually. So anyway, just if you're dwelling on that, what question are you going to ask?
And it was also a reminder to everyone that she's not your average standard politician, which I think was probably deliberate. Interesting, though, that she spoke for a really long time. Usually at the National Press Club, the speech is 30 minutes long. She spoke for nearly 50 minutes. And in fact, she had to be asked to wind up a little bit before that because they were running out of time for questions.
How does Pauline Hanson view multiculturalism in Australia?
I've only got a few pages left.
You're right.
Very important. It does make you wonder whether that was the idea. More input from her, less questioning from the audience. But in fact, they ran the broadcast longer and let all the questions go. So she did face the questions and she managed that reasonably well. If we go into some of the substance of what she said at the press club, she called multiculturalism a failed policy, saying Australia is and should always be monocultural.
We cannot be a multicultural society. We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural society.
What are Hanson's views on renewable energy and environmental policies?
What more did she say? She did say that and, in fact, that's a good example of some of the interesting things that she said that we learnt from her.
We want them to be able to learn to speak English before they get here, to get their citizenship, and that will help them assimilate into our society because 872,000 people said they speak very little English or none at all. So where's the assimilation?
I think a lot of her political opponents will have been watching. I think they'd probably... are happy that they now have some specifics to work with. And there were a lot more specifics. She spoke a lot about immigration, as you would expect, and she had kind of a blizzard of statistics to back up a lot of what she said about a range of things. But
How does Pauline Hanson perceive the role of journalists?
There are a lot of migrants in Australia and the thought that their culture might be suppressed may not thrill all of them. So there'll be some downside in terms of broadening her appeal to that sort of thing.
We oppose entirely people coming into this country and bringing with them the troubles they have left behind.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What are the key issues Pauline Hanson addresses in her Press Club speech?
0:00–1:09
2
How does Pauline Hanson's performance reflect her political strategy?
1:09–2:00
3
What specific immigration policies does Pauline Hanson propose?
2:00–2:47
4
How does Pauline Hanson view multiculturalism in Australia?
2:47–3:30
5
What are Hanson's views on renewable energy and environmental policies?
3:30–4:12
6
How does Pauline Hanson perceive the role of journalists?
4:12–5:09
7
What challenges does Hanson face from her political opponents?
5:09–5:46
8
How did the Press Gallery respond to Pauline Hanson's address?
5:46–16:53
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