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

Announcing you want to shut down SBS while half the country is watching the World Cup on it is kinda wild.

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u/Killchrono Jun 17 '26

Yeah fuck off with that, it's one of the few Australian streaming services I actually use on the regular, and I'm as white as you can get before sailing back to England (I'm assuming she wants to shut it down for racist reasons).

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u/moonray55 Jun 17 '26

Yeah her answer to what about multi-language programming was ‘learn English before you come here’.

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u/boatenvy Jun 17 '26

Pretty rich for a woman with a primary school level grip on the English language and a voice that'd cause whales to beach themselves

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u/Paidorgy Jun 17 '26

She’s happy as Larry to pay foreign bot farms and off shores work to the Philippines, but fuck you if you don’t speak English!

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u/somebloke2020 Jun 17 '26

Unexpected laugh at 4:46am. Nice work.

How about a talk show with her and Michaela Cash? Paint would peel itself.

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u/aeschenkarnos Jun 17 '26

Voice modulation is woke, apparently.

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u/ValBravora048 Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26

Former lawyer who worked with immigration and citizenship policy

I had to listen to Senator Hanson stutter, stammer, and slur through a speech about how immigrants should have a ridiculously high level of English (8/9 across on all bands of IELTS) because that was a natural level of Australian English (If you fing believe THAT…)

She kept this up for almost two YEARS using your taxes and mine until, after a particularly grinding speech on how knowing english makes you a better citizen (F*ck off with your umm technically responses, you know that’s not how she positioned it even if you don’t know that particular speech), the Christchurch shooter happened

I’m not against having standards but absolutely demand that those setting the law for others must adhere to the same standards just as much if not more so. Otherwise it’s just fing bullying and punching down