I'm going to be daring and say Pauline Hanson had the right idea, was just well ahead of her time ...and perhaps too politically incorrect *blunt* in part, at a time when PC'ness was moving from civilised discussions & polite circles to mainstream society and board-room politics.
I admire this woman's passion, and her heart felt desire to do and say what she felt needed to be said, no holes barred.
While the boys were bench-sniffing and skirting and flirting with semantics, she was telling it as it was, and still is.
She was spot on, no one can deny this, and or in my opinion, refer to her as being racist.
She was protectionist, not racist.
Pity, so many of us cant seem to be able to tell the difference between the two.
Despite Lathams lunatic media ambush, (as a cub-reporter) when he asked Abbott if he felt he was responsible for Pauline Hanson having gone to jail, Pauline maintains she would support Tony's policies over Julia Gillards ...I think this in itself is a wake-up call with respects to what Labor have planned for Australia.
The woman was honest, and for this she was persecuted and called a racist.
Big mistake!

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