Everything’s coming up Pauline, as the last parliamentary sitting week for the year ends. While Pauline Hanson was forced to sit it out, due to being suspended from the Senate over her burqa, even that suspension has worked in her favour. After the burqa incident, I wrote to expect to see One Nation’s poll numbers hit 18 per cent, possibly 20. I was, it turns out, too pessimistic.
According to Labor-aligned polling group Redbridge, One Nation have already hit 18 per cent. And that’s before the massive wave of support the Senate suspension unleashed. Across social media, the comments sections of even hard-left publications like the Guardian and the Age were flooded with messages of support. Talkback radio, too, lit up with Aussies of all backgrounds cheering on Pauline Hanson.
Listeners described Senator Pauline Hanson as a leader willing to stand alone, stand firm, and stand up for the Australians who feel ignored by the political establishment. Many callers said her actions reflected not just personal conviction but the sentiments of countless quiet supporters who feel she speaks the truth that major parties avoid.
Callers expressed frustration with the behaviour of parliament, pointing out the constant shouting, hostility, and refusal to address issues everyday Australians face. Many argued that her suspension highlighted an ongoing double standard in politics, where other politicians repeatedly escape consequences for far more controversial conduct.
What they’re referring to is that the shocking antics of far-left loons and open racists, such as Lidia Thorpe and Mehreen Faruqi, go completely unpunished. From brandishing dead fish, to wearing terror-rags and bellowing genocidal slogans, to threatening terror attacks against parliament, there’s no enormity left-wing extremists won’t get away with. Yet, if a centre-right politician wears a garment the rest of the Senate says is perfectly OK for the rest of us to put up with seeing on the street, then all hell breaks loose.
Australians are sick of the double-standards, and even more sick of being told they can’t criticise a terrorist ideology.
They’re also sick of being told they can’t laugh at the lunacy of the left-elite.
Not only did Pauline Hanson commission a movie based on her controversial Please Explain cartoon webseries, but the trailer premiere at Parliament House was cancelled after officials worried it might “cause offence” to members of the public.
Titled A Super Progressive Movie, the 90-minute long film is based off her satirical cartoon series Please Explain, which has aired more than 100 episodes since it was first released in 2021, and has been criticised for its racist, sexist, and homophobic themes.
In other words, unlike 99 per cent of modern ‘comedians’, it’s actually funny.
Hanson was scheduled to host an exclusive event launching the film’s trailer, never-before-seen scenes, and a Q&A with the Please Explain team at Parliament House on Wednesday evening, only to have the proceedings cancelled on Tuesday in accordance with event booking considerations.
“These considerations include the requirement that events held at Australian Parliament House are accepted, among other requirements, of not being likely to cause offence to any part of the Australian community,” read an email sent to One Nation from parliamentary officials, as seen by news.com.au.
Well… that’s the joke.
Our movie may very well offend some people. Offending people is an inevitable consequence of free speech, a fundamental principle of Australian democracy. No one has a right to be unoffended, contrary to what the ‘super progressive left’ believes.
Just to rub it in, and make the lefty heads explode even harder, the movie will premiere on Australia Day, in just a few months.
Capping off One Nation’s big week, former Nationals leader and deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce became a former Nationals MP – with big expectations he’ll be jumping ship to One Nation soon.
Following months of speculation over his future and confirmation from Pauline Hanson that she was seeking to have him join One Nation, Mr Joyce on Thursday afternoon told the House of Representatives that he would no longer sit as a Nationals MP, and would join the crossbench.
While Joyce is, as one wag put it, doing the ‘Dance of the Seven Akubras’, speculation remains rife that he will join One Nation. If he does, he’ll become the party’s first lower house MP, which will mean that One Nation has one more lower house MP than the Greens. If current polling holds, the party is on track for as many as five lower house MPs after the next election, as well as increasing its Senate headcount, making them a formidable third party and possibly even the major conservative party.
While One Nation has always polled higher in the country than in the city, this election its signature policies, ‘Net Zero’ and mass immigration, not to say the destruction of Australian culture in favour of multi-cult tribalism, potentially have big appeal in the vast areas of the cities outside the ‘Quinoa Belt’ of inner Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
The next election is not exactly One Nation’s to lose, but certainly one for them to stand astride as a colossus of third-party possibility.
