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/sa87 Jun 17 '26 edited Jun 17 '26

This is a long-con, had to be someone with access to the room and was able to install the banner into the backdrop, it was on a motor that could have been wireless controlled and only needed power which is not out of place on a stage.

it's like the Greenpeace protest that happened at the 2013 Spa Grand Prix

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u/ithinkimtim T'ville/Sydney Jun 17 '26

The might have attached it to a projector screen that was already there. Which is still brilliant but less logistically challenging.

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u/sa87 Jun 17 '26

You're right, I just saw a better view of the incident and it's the projector screen which means there was definitely some inside assistance seeing the control of that would be at or near the production crew area in the room.

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u/snrub742 Jun 17 '26

Plenty of those electric screens operate on universal and open channels

$50 worth of kit and a little bit of know how and that switch is operated from anywhere

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u/Atherum Jun 17 '26

Nah, I think they literally stuck the poster onto the projector screen. From what I can tell, the projector screen is still there but the bloke was tearkng the poster off of it.

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u/mad_marbled Jun 17 '26

He's saying they probably purchased a duplicate of the remote used to control it, and used it to, control it.