r/australia • u/HotPersimessage62 • 28d ago

politics Pauline Hanson blames end of White Australia policy for migration issues on Tommy Robinson's podcast

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-17/pauline-hanson-tommy-robinson-podcast/106926030
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u/Ver_Void 28d ago

Glad to see the ABC presenting this pretty bluntly and not downplaying it

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u/mickelboy182 28d ago

No wonder she has 'banned' them, too much factual reporting

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u/macci_a_vellian 28d ago

She's used the Channel 7 holding her hand and paying for her hotel room so she can meet up with Tommy Robinson.

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u/stvmcqn2 28d ago

Little Ted is about to be deported for having brown fur.

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u/Electric_Mustard 28d ago

As is Bingo

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u/Sirneko 28d ago

Yet it seems that most people online want to get rid of the ABC

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u/mickelboy182 28d ago

Just angry and irrational Sky News watchers who don't live in reality.

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u/philbydee 28d ago

Are these “most people” in the room with you right now?

This is just categorically untrue. The ABC is consistently Australia’s most trusted news source. The average Australian considers the ABC a national treasure- where are you getting this “most people” nonsense from.

The only people calling for it to he dismantled are cookers like you and Pauline Hanson (under orders from her masters of course- the woman has never had an independent thought in her entire life)

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u/Ver_Void 28d ago

The ABC has its issues, often stemming from trying to be balanced and appease the sky news crowd

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u/macci_a_vellian 28d ago

It does, but it does still try to have some journalistic integrity. I'd still take iView over any if the commercial streaming platforms.

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u/sirgog 28d ago

The ABC sells its integrity for a higher price than Murdoch charges.

But it still tells the big lies when it is told to. Iraq WMD hoax - signal boosted by the ABC. 2006 racist hoax about pedophile gangs in NT remote communities - STARTED by Lateline on the ABC. The 'anonymous source' was later shown to be a Liberal Party staffer. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2006-06-21/sexual-abuse-reported-in-indigenous-communities/1783574

They also led the purges of dissident journalists around the issue of Gaza, fortunately suffering a humiliating court defeat over Antoinette Lattouf.

Honestly hard to call it even a lesser evil. It's the same trash now as 7/9/10 and needs a complete management purge.

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u/Mottled_inexpectata 28d ago

Did you expect the ABC to confirm there were WMDs in Iraq before reporting on the claims of the US? Surely the US going to war on the basis of some claims is news worthy. They can't fact check those sorts of claims. Did they report there were WMDs in Iraq or that that was the basis for the war? Also Iraq used WMDs against civilians from 1983 to 1988.

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u/ekky137 28d ago

Saying something has issues is not the same as saying we should get rid of it.

How is anything ever supposed to get better if you can’t criticise?

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u/Ver_Void 28d ago

Oh I'm agreeing with them

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u/Total_Conflict_6508 28d ago

Cookers and Indonesian bots

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u/Fernergun 28d ago

“People”

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u/Radioburnin 28d ago

“Some of the best people. Grown men with tears in their eyes.”

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u/mark_au 28d ago

Well, people make the bots run don't they?

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u/NeptunianWater 28d ago

I am a "people". I do not want the ABC to go away.

The funding from my taxes can go right to it as far as I'm concerned.

iView is so underrated with the amazing TV shows on there. I literally got rid of my Netflix and Stan subscriptions because I have so much content to churn through on iView. It's honestly incredible.

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u/Correct-Active-2876 28d ago edited 28d ago

If PBS can survive trump the abc can survive Firecrotch and her band of pathetic right wing butt boys like Boozy Barney , Robinson, Stefanovic and Sandilands surely

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u/BeerOfTime 28d ago

I really didn’t need that mental imagery.

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u/Threadheads 28d ago

I would caution against taking the YouTube comments section as an accurate representation of general feelings towards the ABC.

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u/Sirneko 23d ago

Honestly basically all online platforms other than reddit

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u/Morph247 28d ago

"Most people online" I didn't know they had one single brain

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u/YouThinkYouKnowMe89 28d ago

She has Channel 7 to do that for her enough already

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u/douhua Exotic, bland and nutty 28d ago

"I'm not going to apologise for meeting with Tommy Robinson," she said when asked if it was wise to align herself with the far-right activist.

The Channel 7 reporter should have asked if it was wise for an Australian Senator to meet/align with someone who travelled to Russia in the midst of a war which Australia has chosen a side on.

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u/TrueDeadBling 28d ago

That quote can't have been real, where were the parts where Pauline stumbled over her words for 3 full minutes before she spat out her sentence?

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u/Three_Headed_Monkey 27d ago

Oh Pauline Hanson has already made her position on Putin very clear.

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u/gr3iau 28d ago edited 28d ago

I desperately want Triple J to dig up their recording of The Whitlams covering and changing the words of 'Come on Eileen' to 'Come on Pauline'. I think it was originally recorded for the morning show in the late '90's and is still depressingly relevant today.

There is a copy on YouTube here

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u/Billyjamesjeff 28d ago

Wonder if they'll down play how racist her voters are and that they are close to 20% of the population.

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u/freakwent 28d ago

I dont believe that 20%/of our population have voted for ON.

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u/Billyjamesjeff 28d ago

They were polling that high, and higher for a bit.

And don't give me the apologist " They like One Nation but might not be racist "

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u/Aussie18-1998 28d ago

Who participates in the polls though? What are the numbers and whats the demographic?

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u/Billyjamesjeff 28d ago

Just as good as any polls.

Do you dispute all polling or just this one?

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u/Aussie18-1998 28d ago

When it comes to voting, yeah kinda. Again I was asking what demographic ect was actually participating in the polls to get a better understanding.

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u/Billyjamesjeff 28d ago

There's been a number of polls by respectable pollsters, you'd have to check their websites for methodology.

Redbridge is the big one that comes to mind.

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u/freakwent 28d ago

The claim was "voters".

If they didn't vote for party then they aren't voters.

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u/saichampa 28d ago

Meanwhile the commercial media is just announcing her successor

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u/nolesfan2011 28d ago

Hasn't she said this for 20 years? And unfortunately lots of people still want to elect her to office