Should the media boycott Pauline Hanson?
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What is the premise of the episode and why is Pauline Hanson’s media strategy under scrutiny?
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Pauline Hanson wants to be the next Prime Minister. So will avoiding scrutiny from some of the biggest media outlets in the country help her get there? Or will the Trump-like tactic be a turn-off for voters here? Today, former ABC correspondent Monica Attard from UTS on how Senator Hanson is banning some press coverage. and whether there's any way to stop her doing it. I'm Sam Hawley on Gadigal land in Sydney. This is ABC News Daily.
Monica, let's consider this growing push by Pauline Hanson and One Nation against certain sections of the press. Now, it came to the fore again this week at a press conference in Victoria. Just walk me through that.
Well, it was something else. In Melbourne on Monday, Senator Hanson was revealing the seven candidates and I believe one incumbent who would run for the party at the November election. state elections in Victoria. But reporters from The Age, from The Guardian and from the ABC were explicitly denied entry.
ABC were denied entry into here and the Guardian. I'm not putting up with their rubbish. I'm not putting up with their spin, their lies whatsoever.
Now the media who remained were permitted to ask questions of Senator Hanson and they did query why those three outlets were banned.
In a democracy, shouldn't all media have access to a press conference, particularly if you're, as you say, running to form government at the November state election? That democracy, I'm sorry, that democracy doesn't happen on the ABC at all. And I'm sick of it's not fair and just in their reporting. So if you want to criticise and have a go at me not putting the truth across, you're not giving me the truth of democracy either.
She has barred journalists before in Farrah, as we know. The ABC was chucked out there and the rest of the media stood by and did very little.
We're based in Wodonga. We're based in Farrah. We serve the local community.
Her chief of staff, Ashby, was captured on camera ejecting ABC regional journalists from a campaign event.
See you later, guys.
And at that event, on the eve of that thorough by-election, as you say, James Ashby, who is now her national director, but he was her chief of staff at the time, in this vision that was captured by Channel 9, he can be heard saying, bye-bye, ABC.
That's the ABC going, guys. Bye-bye to the ABC.
At that time, she actually questioned Ashby. She said that she clearly didn't agree with what Ashby had done.
Okay, so Monica, James Ashby, he made the decision on the first occasion to kick the ABC out, but Pauline Hanson was clearly in charge of this decision to keep the ABC, The Guardian and The Age out of that press conference this week. She favours a far-right-leaning website known as Rebel News over the ABC.
she does indeed aren't you cutting off your nose to spite your face here don't you need your message to get out to regional victoria in particular and you need the abc the national broadcaster we've got rebel news here i'm happy with them thank you we can have the discussion as to whether or not rebel news is a news website it's clearly not a news website it's an advocacy website it's a melbourne-based team led by avi yimini Now, Avi Yemeni himself is an Australian-Israeli far-right agitator who's run unsuccessfully for the Victorian parliament. So it needs to be closely looked at. It needs to be prosecuted. It needs to be examined by the media.
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Chapters
3 chapters
1
What is the premise of the episode and why is Pauline Hanson’s media strategy under scrutiny?
0:00–6:06
2
How did Senator Hanson’s recent press conference illustrate her ban on major news outlets?
6:06–9:48
3
Why did Hanson’s team eject ABC and Guardian journalists, and what was the reaction from other reporters?
9:48–15:26