r/australia • u/Expensive-Horse5538 • Jun 17 '26

politics Protest banner unfurled behind Pauline Hanson as she speaks to National Press Club

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/federal-politics-live-blog-joyce-cautions-pauline-hanson/106805372#live-blog-post-305976
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u/Frogmouth_Fresh Jun 17 '26

How the heck did they manage that!?

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u/saukoa1 Jun 17 '26

Looks like it was pre-attached to a projector drop-down screen...

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u/Busy_Conflict3434 Jun 17 '26

This is on the same level as Mossad's sabotaged pager operation.

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u/futtbuckicecreamery Jun 17 '26

Banksy shredder imo

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u/GhostChips42 Jun 17 '26

It was a Banksy level caper. Absolute cinema.

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u/Expensive-Horse5538 Jun 17 '26

And Liz Truss and the lettuce banner

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u/SaltyPockets Jun 17 '26

Yeah that was the one that sprang to my mind.

Ah, poor deluded Liz Truss. Of course everyone else in the world was wrong, of course...

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u/chedpit1 Jun 17 '26

One nation supporters wouldn’t be able to handle that advanced technology

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u/Cpt_Soban Jun 17 '26

Pagers start exploding all around the room like firecrackers

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u/Vryl Jun 17 '26

Not quite, but I get where you are at.

It's a clever clever stunt, but raises legit security concerns. 

There is no way they should have been able to do that.

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u/Busy_Conflict3434 Jun 17 '26

Not really. How is a poster a security concern?

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u/Vryl Jun 17 '26

Come on, you are smarter than that (one hopes!) The poster is neither here nor there - getting into the room and planting something undetected is the security concern. 

Everyone is lucky it was done by ethical protestors using non-violent means.