As I wrote yesterday, One Nation’s stunning by-election in Western Australia has the Albanese government too-obviously sweating bullets – and all but mailing bullets to Pauline Hanson. While the union bruvvas who pull Labor’s strings are notorious for sending bullets to their enemies – whether by the mail or at high-velocity – the red-raggers in Canberra are a little more sophisticated. They just quietly encourage others to do the dirty work for them.
In a classic case of stochastic terrorism, a conga-line of senior Labor MPs, from the PM down, have taken to the podia to hoot and screech like demented howler monkeys that the Bad Orange Woman is an existential threat to democracy. Their Little Red Guards in the re-education camps laughingly called ‘schools’ have duly responded with death threats. It’s the sort of stuff that, if it was targeting a left-wing female politician, would send the media-political class into howling meltdowns about ‘misogyny’.
Instead, they’re lining up to blame the victim. The same Labor quota queen ‘feminists’ who lined up to excuse the Anthony Albanese’s crass, sexist remarks about Japanese PM Sanae Takaichi are furiously telling Pauline Hanson it’s her own fault that the violent left are threatening her.
Attorney-General Michelle Rowland claims Pauline Hanson’s associations and “behaviour” are driving threats against the minor party, after the One Nation leader accused Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers of stoking political violence.
In other words, ‘she’s askin’ fer it’. But for sheer, bare-faced, self-righteous, stinking hypocrisy, nothing comes close to Rowland’s follow-up comment.
Ms Rowland claimed it was dangerous to be a politician or a high-profile woman in Australia of any ideology, blaming social media algorithms for “feeding” hate and extremism to its users.
She said, as she feeds hate and extremism at a centre-right woman. You can’t make this stuff up.
If accusing Labor of stochastic terrorism sounds like hyperbole, then you’ve not paid attention to the lengths the uniparty establishment will go to silence Hanson.
When One Nation first exploded on to the scene in 1998, winning 11 seats and nearly 23 per cent of the vote in Queensland, the uniparty immediately sniffed the threat to their vested interest. While it was the Liberals’ turn at the governmental musical chairs, the sleazy campaign to stop One Nation in its tracks was no less underhanded. Via the astroturfing ‘Australians for Honest Politics’, $100,000 was raised to go on a legal fishing expedition, with the help of a disgruntled, disendorsed former ON candidate with strong ties to the coalition.
The gambit paid off: One Nation’s party registration was overturned, Hanson was prosecuted and jailed for three years. After 11 weeks with Hanson behind bars, the Queensland Court of Appeal unanimously quashed the convictions and ordered verdicts of acquittal.
Now, it’s Labor’s turn to scrape the bottom of the barrel of dirty tricks. By any means necessary, as the leftist slogan goes. If they can’t get Hanson conveniently removed, they’re hedging their bets by trying to starve One Nation out.
A boiler-plate uniparty attack line thrown at One Nation is a supposed ‘lack of policies’. Not only false (just go to their website and read their policies for yourself), but a classic case of a prophecy deliberately engineered to self-fulfil.
After all, parties need staffers to help draft policy. The problem is that political staffing is allocated, not according to an independent body or plain quota system, but at the prime minister’s personal whim. And what this PM wants is a dramatically under-staffed One Nation.
The proof is in the numbers: One Nation has the lowest staffing allocation per MP than any of the parties or independents. While Albanese gifts himself a whopping 507 advisers (on top of 200,000 public servants whose loyalty is bought-and-paid-for), One Nation has… five. To spread between six MPs. Meanwhile, independents Jacqui Lambie and David Pocock have three and two, respectively, all to themselves.
That works out to 0.83 staff per One Nation parliamentarian, and 2.00 for Pocock and 3.00 for Lambie, who both, not coincidentally, loyally vote with the government. The coalition are similarly starved, on just 1.47 staff per MP, while the minor party Greens are rolling in 1.55 staff per MP. Labor, of course, take the whole pie shop, with 4.09 staff per MP.
That Hanson, practically a parliamentary one-man band (until the next election, at least) has even had time to develop policy at all is a minor miracle in itself.
ON’s latest policy announcement is guaranteed to send the left into even further meltdowns: getting serious about restoring Australia’s cheap, reliable baseload energy.
One Nation has promised to bring nuclear power to Victoria and to halt the closure of the Loy Yang A coal-fired power station.
Pauline Hanson on Monday said nuclear power was part of One Nation’s long-term energy plan […]
“They’re doing it in Korea for about six and a half billion dollars, so it can be done.”
Expect the government stochastic terrorism to get even more unhinged over the next year.
