The sneering, activist media class misunderstands One Nation supporters. People moving to One Nation know exactly what they do and don’t want.Like populist movements in the US and the UK, they are part of a backlash against the censorious sneering of the political establishment, freed by Donald Trump’s rejection of woke pieties on immigration, gender and climate.
In Australia, they may not approve of Trump’s handling of world affairs, but they feel they can now speak openly against foolish ideology in favour of common sense.
Journalists Sarah Ferguson on the ABC’s 7.30 on Wednesday and Sally Sara on Radio National breakfast on Thursday railed against Hanson’s words on radical Islam, multiculturalism, speaking English at home, criticism of late-term abortion and support for biological truth over gender ideology.
The pair is only helping One Nation – just as surely as GetUp!’s stunt of unfurling an anti-Hanson poster in the middle of her speech at the National Press Club in Canberra helped her.
It’s clear the real spurt to Hanson’s political fortunes was the murder of 15 people at Bondi Beach in December during a celebration of Hanukkah.
The massacre makes up the entire first part of the new One Nation ad, and it’s powerful. The implication is clear – this attack is the fruit of multiculturalism and high migration.
Australians, Hanson said, should be able to discuss radical Islamism. Yet such discussions are seldom had openly, even though they have been in Europe for more than a decade.ABC global affairs editor Laura Tingle on December 16 told her colleague Patricia Karvelas on the Politics Now podcast that the actions of the Bondi gunmen had “
nothing to do with religion”.
Many journalists have tried to deny the link between high immigration, high house prices and housing shortages. Common sense tells voters the link is obvious.
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Former Treasury assistant secretary David Pearl wrote the best analysis of Hanson’s speech: “She said that just as ‘every attempt has been made to silence me in Australia’ people have been frightened to speak up.
“People have been ‘demeaned and condescended to’ and ‘civil debate has been paralysed’ Hanson said, with the media being complicit.”History proves his point.