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Embracing Pauline Hanson : Comments

By Ian Cook, published 26/7/2016

We, people who disagree with her position like me, had the chance to embrace Hanson and the people she represents twenty years ago and we didn't. I'm hoping that we don't miss this opportunity again.

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If we are going to have a parliament dominated by extremists form the irrational, irresponsible, Loony Left (Greens, and half of Labor) we need representatives in Parliament to present the views of those on the Right.
Posted by Peter Lang, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 9:12:48 AM
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If this article is not a true description of plumb in mouth!
Pauline Hanson is not the brightest button on the shirt, but reality is, she has the guile of the best in the political set!
Remember she was jailed unjustifiably with the best efforts of Abbott right behind it!
I can't wait for the game of payback!
And the thesis that Hanson is backed by the uneducated xenophobic and homophobic dolts on the peripherals is the plumb! Says who?
And for the upper end, which is where the plumb trees grow, there is a Chinaman coming right now for your "sweet berry" jobs.
With a $20b dollar education industry aimed squarely at Chinese, and offering 4year visas to take a job in Australia at the end of their studies, best of British. So who will become the upper end version of Pauline Hanson. The word snob springs to mind here!
Posted by diver dan, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 9:18:22 AM
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I've got an IQ of 129 and I voted for Pauline.

You can start by not insulting me and asking me what I think, not telling others what you think I think.

That said, I'll give you full marks on your article for the attitude you displayed which accepts there is two sides to the story and seeks to address those arguments and concerns peacefully.

I don't want to put a lock on my door because I hate people.
I want to put a lock on that door because I love the people that lock protects.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 9:41:07 AM
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We have Hanson Young accompanying illegals into Europe and Hanson who wants sensible immigration policies. Who really is the extremist? We have the gw scaremonger and the one who wants a sensible debate. Who is the extremist? Just because the abc insists on totally over representing the regressives does not mean they are mainstream. Yep Pauline might not be the brightest but did anyone hear Hanson Young being questioned about superannuation. Really she displayed complete ignorance.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:01:48 AM
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Very well said, Armchair Critic.
Posted by Peter Lang, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:02:27 AM
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Much of what Pauline advocated was subsequently embraced by an extremely hypocritical coalition? Starting with the Tampa incident and very different dehumanising treatment of refugees and the subsequent release of simmering unexpressed unreleased xenophobia?

What is entirely missing here, is a willingness to dump the ego driven, we know best response, and simply embrace space age lie detection technology that would allow us to know the real mind and circumstances of intending migrants and or intending gun owners etc.

The level of support for, please explain, Miz Hanson has to tell us we're missing something here? Something that would be addressed by the roll out and embracing of a bill of irrevocable rights?

[Only actually prevented by prevaricating control freak politicians and their desire for untrammelled personal power, who have the unmitigated temerity to actually critique Miz Hanson!] (mirror mirror on the wall?)

And as part of a suite of hitherto, unclaimable rights, include a citizen's initiated referendum.

That said, I reject most of what M Hanson stands for, just as I reject the Nazi party manifesto replete with the similar persecution of a falsely accused ethnic minority!

Moreover, I don't judge folk on what they say or allege, just what they represent, actually do, allow or cause!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:23:27 AM
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Ian Cook: Can we try to be smarter than the British and Americans and not think that we can deal with them by shouting at them or turning our backs and knowing these people are just plain wrong and maybe evil, and pretending they'll go away if we can deny them an opportunity to enter public debate?

Just because you think they are wrong doesn’t make them wrong. It’s your opinion Ian. No better or worse than theirs.

Cook: she has returned older but no wiser and that it was a pity that her supporters and people like them were not being represented by a more mature, thoughtful and just plain wiser Pauline Hanson. But I was wrong to think that.

You are wrong there. She was undermined by the LNP & the ALP etc, putting a third Column into her Party. The two Major Party’s were afraid of the “Voice of the Common People” upsetting the petty game of one upmanship they play between themselves.

Cook: She hasn't changed because our response to her over the years she's been out of the limelight hasn't changed.

She hasn’t changed because, in my opinion, she was on the right track. Now others who were on the margins have seen the truth, regarding the two Major Party’s & have found a “Voice.” in Pauline. They see Pauline as one of them, the voiceless majority.

Cook: I believe that people are fearful when they feel insecure.

& at the moment people are feeling insecure, & rightly so because the Government is pandering to the very people we are fearful about, just to secure Votes for their own Party from the Latte Set in Society.

Cook: the people like them who vote for other parties, feel threatened and cause them to respond with fear.

There are many in the two Major Party’s who support Hanson, Jackie & Xenophon but only vote for one of the two Major Party’s because that’s what they’ve always done & can’t change.
Cont
Posted by Jayb, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:26:55 AM
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Cook: Hanson and many of her supporters were raised in a different Australia and it is hard for them to feel they have a place in this changed Australia.

That has got nothing to do with the issue & is plainly just wrong.

Cook: Partly they fear because they were raised in monocultural communities, when assimilation was our response to immigration.

Wrong again. Most of us were raised in mixed immigrant Communities. It was the Pre WW2 that that thinking applies too. These people were mainly Christian & posed no threat. They were happy to assimilate & spread a little of their beneficial Culture around a well.

Cook: And it is the members of a society who decide what is normal and not religious texts.

Unfortunately the Socialist Left, PC, Liberationists have forced this acceptance on Society against their will.

Cook: We can call them racist or Islamophobic (and sexist and homophobic) and walk away, thinking that we've done the right thing. Or we can stop and listen and, yes, embrace these people.

Not to mention Infidelophobic, but I suppose the majority now have to accept that along with the bombing, knifings & shootings as being a part of a multicultural Society.
Posted by Jayb, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:27:37 AM
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It's funny how people being soooo 'reasonable" and 'nice' about Pauline Hanson have to firmly disavow any personal support for the woman and her suporters before they say she should be tolerated. Jolly decent of them, what?

Well, guess what, all you , left wing, intolerant people who are always heehawing about the intolerance of the right, Pauline Hanson and her supporters do not give a stuff what you think about her and them. She could have 4 senate seats, so suck it up, comrades.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 10:58:26 AM
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ttn: Pauline Hanson and her supporters do not give a stuff what you think about her and them. She could have 4 senate seats, so suck it up, comrades.

Quite right ttn & rightly so. I guess this, above all things, is what gets up the Socialist Left, Greens & the PC Latte Set noses the most. Well said.
Posted by Jayb, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 11:38:24 AM
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Jayb,

I really don't understand the the mentality of these people who carry on like a pack of wild dogs when someone they hate is voted in. I think what they would really like is a 'one party' system, as China is now calling its communist dictatorship. I put Pauline second, being more of an ALA person, on the senate paper, and they didn't do very well, unfortunately. But I really admire Pauline Hanson. Her guts and determination in the face of mindless hostility more than outweigh the petty comments by the comrades about her lack of sophistication and manner of speaking. She is a person with commitment and courage, something severely lacking in the comrades and their masters.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 12:41:11 PM
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So what exactly does the author dislike about ONE NATION?

Is it their policy to increase the aged pension by "$100 per fortnight for a single aged pensioner and $150 for a couple"?

Or is it their policy to give "Tertiary students with an allowance equivalent to the dole"

Or is it their policy of "cuts to politicians lurks and perks, and more accountability of travel costs and expenses."

http://www.onenation.com.au/policies

Nah!

People voted for ONE NATION because they are racist says the author.

I voted for ONE NATION because they are the only political party in Australia with a policy of citizens initiated referendums.

http://www.onenation.com.au/policies/cir

And ONE NATION wants to reduce the ridiculous number of state MPs in Qld from 89 down to 45 (which is no loss at all, and anyone who has ever had any contact with a state MP in Qld would know how totally useless these people are).

http://www.onenation.com.au/policies/reduce-politicians

So the author should go back to the drawing board and rethink, and then make up another story about why people voted for ONE NATION.
Posted by interactive, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 12:58:34 PM
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Take away the author's mind-reading, and there's nothing left
Posted by Jardine K. Jardine, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 2:18:05 PM
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Ha this is all very funny, the left side of the house can think what it thinks, in fact most would say the more parties on the right the better.
I think the people most upset by Hanson are those liberals on the right. If I was in charge of the lower house seating I'd put her right along side Abbott and stand back.
Posted by Cobber the hound, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 4:02:55 PM
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'I think the people most upset by Hanson are those liberals on the right. '

Must say for the first time I can remember Cobber I agree with you. She took the conservative liberal voters.
Posted by runner, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 4:05:37 PM
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Interactive,

I doubt that the comrades bother to look at the actual policies of One Nation. Snarling the thought-terminating cliche 'racist' is enough for them. They believe that calling people names stops them in their tracks, releasing them (the 'clever' comrades) from the task of using whatever intelligence they might have to come up with proof that PH is racist. Unfortunately, for them, she doesn't seem to have heard the psychologists quacking about people not supposed to be comfortable about being called names (i.e abused) and she has kept on marching to get more votes than the minor left wing cranks.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 4:13:22 PM
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Ian I find it amazing that anyone can load a piece with so much unconscious arrogance. So much arrogance is dripping from every line that it is surprising someone with your self confessed superior intelligence, & higher education can not see it for themselves.

To help you with your understanding, which does not appear to be your strong point, it is pieces just like this that send people flocking to Pauline.

It is also obvious that you don't understand the disgust that average Australians are developing for academia. If you did understand you would be much more careful when you went to print. You must remember that it is the very people you denigrate from your ivory tower that pay your salary. I suggest a change of attitude by yourself, & your mates, if you wish your privileged position among the elite is to continue.

I don't recall this attitude when I did my B Sc. but that was back in the late 60s, so perhaps the cult of superiority had not yet developed. Of course I may have been too naïve to notice, or perhaps our lecturers were better at concealing their feelings disdain for the great unwashed. Anyway, thanks for showing us that we must give much more support to Pauline, & perhaps even join her party. We had better do something to protect ourselves from the likes of you, who would rather give the fruits of our labour to any blow in, rather than let us enjoy what is justly ours.
Posted by Hasbeen, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 4:24:23 PM
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ttbn: It's all too easy to promise things you'll never ever be able to deliver, even with the incredible might of a whole four still hypothetical (run the country and all hail the victor) MASSIVE Senate seats!

Labor and liberal only need agree on policy that ONE NATION stands 4square against? And this (please explain) powerhouse of a reborn political party becomes a clueless toothless tiger, albeit, trembling in a terrible temper tantrum, because of non forthcoming public service briefing and how to advice!

Ever seen a toothless pensioner trying to gum a T bone to death? And would likely have more success than a gormless Miz Hanson actually getting old age pensioners another $150.00 a week!? LOL! Hell would freeze over first!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 26 July 2016 4:40:29 PM
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Yes Hasbeen! And right on the money with academia!

I have a splendid idea that would put them in their proper place? We could arrange a nice big bonfire with scholarly books? That'd show them eh? And warm the joint up for free?

Whadda ya reckon?
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Tuesday, 26 July 2016 4:50:32 PM
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//I don't want to put a lock on my door because I hate people.
I want to put a lock on that door because I love the people that lock protects.//

Armchair Critic, we may have our disagreements, but that was a beautiful and insightful comment that deserves a well-earned Vulcan salute (or a high-five, regular handshake, regular salute, fist-bump, Scout salute, Scout handshake, Masonic handshake, or however you express respect in your particular sub-culture). Live long and prosper.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 5:11:16 PM
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Alan B,

It is not such a bad idea to burn the textbooks in so-called Australian universities, as most of these textbooks are imported.

It would give Australian academics a job re-writting the textbooks, and getting some Australian content into so-called Australian universities.

Academics in Australia are some of the highest paid academics in the world, (to do little except tell the students to read their imported textbooks).

One Nation has a policy of zero net immigration, but this policy would mean a drop in foreign student numbers, and a probable pay cut to academics in so-called Australian universities.
Posted by interactive, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 5:29:38 PM
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I am a self funded retiree with a University Degree who gave my effective preference to One Nation at the recent election, and who is amazed that the author seems unable to recognise the reason that so many retirees did.

I couldn't care less about Pauline's comments on race and immigration. One Nation was the only party at the recent election that was totally opposed to Morrison's proposed superannuation changes.

The current government's attitude to superannuation has made me realise that we need a new party, to the right of the Liberal Party, to represent superannuants and other capitalists in Federal Parliament. If Pauline plays her cards right, her new political career may blossom. Considering that over 8000 new self-funded retirees are generated each week, we will soon become a major political force.

It is political payback time. I hope Pauline gives then hell.

We do not yet know the final Senate outcome, but is possible the Pauline, Hinch and Xenophon could give Turnbull a majority.

The first possible fun outcome could be a Liberal-One Nation coalition with one ministerial position for Pauline. The only suitable one would be for Pauline to become Minister for Immigration.

The other fun outcome could be for Pauline to tell Turnbull the if he gives the crossbenchers six year terms they will support his anti-union legislation.

Should be fun times!
Posted by plerdsus, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 6:45:55 PM
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"Waleed Aly was right to say he was as concerned about Islamic terrorism as Sonia Kruger."

The difference is that Sonia Kruger is at least making some suggestions about how to deal with the problem. I get very sick of people accusing anyone who is concerned about the risk of terrorist attacks racist or the implications of Muslim migration of being racist, xenophobic or a bigot.

However, I like the way the author talks about us actually listening to Pauline Hanson and her supporters rather than simply insulting them. The next step would be to show them the respect of actually inquiring what their views are rather than attributing everything to fear.
Posted by Rhys Jones, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 8:00:29 PM
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The fools who supposedly voted for the air-headed Hanson because of 'her policies', other than her obvious racist remarks re Asians, Aboriginals and other 'foreigners' from Muslim countries, must surely have rocks in their heads.

Hanson and her little band of merry men could say anything at all about what they intend to do for all the 'real' Australians amongst us (minus the first Australians of course), secure in the knowledge that such a political party as One Nation will NEVER form a Government in their own right in order to implement them.

I don't feel the need to worry about Hanson and her One Nation, because like last time, she will destroy herself...
Posted by Suseonline, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 8:32:15 PM
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Yes the author is condescending and will probably never get how us lower class think, but just a hint: Waleed Aly cannot find a single thing wrong with islam - a half hour special on how to deal with terrorism on ABC radio this morning couldn't either, don't think they even mentioned the koran actually. We know exactly what causes terrorists, and we plebs also know the cause of many other problems. If it is too hard, to unpalatable for our "elite" to even speak, let alone deal with these problems, then they will be dealt with without the elite. Democracy has many flaws, but it gets there in the end. I actually find it quite amusing the media elites turning themselves in knots trying to get the damn plebs to behave as they wish - truth is though the plebs have stopped listening, the elites can say whatever they like, but you can only hide the truth for so long
Posted by worker bee, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 8:43:39 PM
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SOL: other 'foreigners' from Muslim countries,

That's one lot that needs to be kept under lock & Key, indefinitely.

Good on ya Mal.
Posted by Jayb, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 8:45:29 PM
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Alan B.

I don't believe politicians' promises any more than you do; and I agree that the PH's don't have much of a chance. But she will get some through, with the help of other cross benchers, if Turnbull doesn't want to be burnt toast, and not just toast as he is.

My reference to policies was only that most of Pauline Hanson's detractors would not be interested in policies, preferring to use ignorant abuse by playing the racist card ad nauseum. Sure enough, just after that, along comes one of these ignoramuses, screeching about racism and people having "rocks in their heads", proving my point. It's sad to see someone so on the outer that they don't realise that it is votes that put politicians in or out, not vicious abuse and childish tantrums.
Posted by ttbn, Tuesday, 26 July 2016 9:45:19 PM
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Ian has presented an extremely dishonest article here.
He stigmatises those who have the courage to hear the truth, and to support it, as “responding with fear”.He says” the question that I think we have to answer concerns why Hanson and her supporters, and the people like them who vote for other parties, feel threatened and cause them to respond with fear”
Ian obviously fears the truth, and responds to Hanson’s presentation of the truth, and her supporters’ acknowledgement of it, with false assertions of a basis in their “insecurity and fear”.

Pauline Hanson is truthful, and has an excellent sense of the wishes of the electorate, so people trust her for her honesty and sincerity.
Political correctness, the enemy of truth, is opposed to her, which no doubt adds to her appeal to voters.
Ian shows his support for dishonesty in his endorsement of the disingenuous Waleed Aly, and has made a scurrilous, and unjustified attack on Pauline, while putting up a pretence of being even handed. A pathetic, and spineless effort, Ian.
Posted by Leo Lane, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 12:40:58 AM
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Thank you, Ian Cook, for insulting the people who voted for Pauline Hanson in the nicest possible way.

The situation in where Australians can see with their own eyes the problems caused by an open doors immigration and refugee policy, instituted by a political class more interested in attracting minority self interest groups than in representing their majority electorate, has created a backlash. I would have thought that a person like yourself looking at he bombings, shootings, throat cuttings, and rapes now becoming the new normal in Europe, that you would have finally admitted that the "racists" were right all along.

But if you live in a cloistered world with the inbred view that your educated friends are the new aristocrats who know everything, and that you can ignore the peasantry because they are too stupid to understand how to Save the World, then it should not surprise you that when the manure hits the multicultural fan, the peasants start revolting.

Multiculturalism is exactly like Socialism. How many times does it need to fail before the supposedly "intelligent" tertiary educated elites like yourself can flash on that? Are you in your present state of denial because today's self evident reality clearly displays that your class got it wrong again? And that is a particularly unpleasant piece of crow to eat?

Trump, Farage, and Hanson's vote will increase with every new Muslim terrorist mass murder outrage. And just in case you have not noticed, those attacks are happening with increasing frequency.
Posted by LEGO, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 4:19:25 AM
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Hey Peter Lang and Toni Lavis,
I'm glad you both liked the saying in my comment, but I can't take credit for it.
I think I heard it on one of radio shows I've watched on youtube, and it may have even been Alex Jones.
(sorry if that bit of info ruined it)
Posted by Armchair Critic, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 11:46:03 AM
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AC: I think I heard it on one of radio shows I've watched on youtube, and it may have even been Alex Jones.

Careful, Careful. Poirot will be accusing you of Plagiarism in her next post.
Posted by Jayb, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 1:00:49 PM
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The title of this article truly scares me "Embracing Pauline Hanson"

Apparently someone got there already - according to a July 21, 2016 article:

"Former politician David Oldfield has denied explosive allegations made by Pauline Hanson that the two slept together on the first night they met.

Oldfield, who secretly established One Nation in 1997 with Hanson while working as a staffer for Tony Abbott, said Hanson's version of events in an upcoming SBS documentary were "fanciful" and "monstrously ridiculous"."

see http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/news-and-current-affairs/pauline-hanson-rehashes-claims-of-fanciful-affair-with-powerbroker-david-oldfield-20160721-gqaoog.html
Posted by plantagenet, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 2:06:04 PM
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Pauline came to Townsville in 98, I think. I warned her about Oldfield then, then later the fellow that took his place. Both were out to undermine her Party for the Major Party's. I spoke to her a couple of months ago about that & to keep a sharp eye out for the same thing happening now.

& yes. I voted for her. Anyone but the two self-centred Major Party's or the disastrous Greens.
Posted by Jayb, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 3:09:41 PM
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Here's some of the Research upon which my views of Pauline Hanson's supporters was based. I think it remains relevant, despite it concerning the initial period of One Nation's emergence.

http://www.ianwatson.com.au/pubs/one%20nations%20electoral%20support.pdf

all the best,

Ian Cook
Posted by IEC, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 4:24:12 PM
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//I think I heard it on one of radio shows I've watched on youtube, and it may have even been Alex Jones.
(sorry if that bit of info ruined it)//

I had to look up who this Alex Jones bloke was. Turns out he's a Moon-Landing denier, the most obvious expression of shite-for-brains after Holocaust denial, vaccine denial and fluoride denial.

Fifty bucks says he nicked the line off somebody a lot brighter than himself.

So yeah, that did totally ruin it for me. Thanks for raining on my parade, AC.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 5:01:53 PM
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Hey Toni,
Yeah that's the guy.
I had a hunch that extra bit of info wasn't going to help things...
Yes, I'd bet he pinched the saying from someone else too.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 6:44:48 PM
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Hey Ian,
Let me throw my 2 cents in.
I read a few pages of your linked article.
I don't argue the data so much as I argue the way you and others are reading it.
It's as if you need the mindset of a PH voter to make it make sense to you.
- But I can't speak for other PH voters.

Yes, there's going to be a greater support for PH in QLD.
Queenslanders, see her more as 'one of them' than people in other states do.
Another big factor here is ethnicity.
There aren't quite as many foreign-born looking people in QLD.
With a candidate such as PH and the rhetoric about 'racism' that surrounds her, you can pretty much just delete the ethnic vote as a non starter, so there's good reasons PH will fare better in QLD.

The actual issue might be better correlated with data such as:
Who was born here and who wasn't, and who has foreign ethnicity.
One important factor is that 28% of Aussies weren't actually born here.

Next, no self-respecting white collar or business person person was going to sit down over Sunday brunch talking about why they voted PH... the ridicule. Not in 96, and probably not now.
So you can count them out as non starters as well.

Then you've got the labour voters, those that can't be pulled to the left over minority issues, or wooed with talk of health and education for their young families.

So it leaves these 'leftover' voters that a non-PH voter could only surmise voted for PH simply because they didn't fit into the other boxes (such as successful businessman or white collar professional or growing family) already set for them.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 8:09:55 PM
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[cont]

And the 'racism' factor.
When you have a system in this country where 'welfare breeds more welfare' then it stands to reason than some people will see an increase in foreigners in their suburbs and then also see them getting ahead and doing better than them.
This is going to lead to natural animosity.
We need to help the people at the bottom have better opportunities to get ahead.
So, this isn't racism so much as the system failing the people at the bottom.

Also the 'Keep the bastards honest' factor, in that what PH lacks in wisdom, she makes up for in courage and spirit.
She's not afraid to face up to issues other politicians would cower from.

These were just a few points I thought of, though they aren't specifically the reasons why I voted for her.
Posted by Armchair Critic, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 8:13:00 PM
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WOW! I'm amazed. This would have to be the first time I have seen a reply from one of you calibre on the Forum or OLO.

I have read your Link by Ian Watson & have made some notes. I take it this research was done on the 98 Election. I doubt very much weather it would correlate with the last Election.

So here goes.

Watson makes a statement; (What Policys?)

In 98 I went through Pauline’s Policies with a fine toothcomb. It was there on her Website in great detail & the reason for those policies. I remember at the time her opposition & Media, intent on making her out to be a fool, were always questioning her as to what her policies were but they all seemed not to see, read or to purposely ignore the content of her Web pages.

Queensland less immigrants than Victoria.

Posibly true in all out numbers but as a percentage of the population I would say that Italians, Sicilians, Yugoslavs, Hungarians, Polish, were in Queensland in droves. I grew up & went to school with them.

Blue Collar workers : 7:1

If I remember it takes seven Blue Collar Workers to keep one White Collar worker. Traditionally Blue Collar Workers are Labourites.

Union Membership normal in Blue Collar workers.

I presume that Union membership would be higher in Blue Collar workers than in Management.

LNP. & ALP. Voter’s agree with ON Policies but still vote for their Party anyway.

Most people vote for their regular Party regardless of what the policies are. A quote from my old Father-in –Law. “ My Grandfather voted Labour, Dad voted Labour & I’ll vote Labour.” & the same for LNP voters.

Anti-Aborigine sentiment.

Pauline’s policy was not Anti-Aboriginal per se, it was pro equality of treatment for all that motivated her & the people that voted for her.
cont.
Posted by Jayb, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 8:24:00 PM
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Don’t you just hate the posting limit.
Cont.

Helena Catts: Casting their vote against the two major parties.

Helena is right here. People are fed up with the “Whatever you are for we are against” by both Party’s. Also the pure “Prestige of Governing” factor comes into play. Wanting the top Job.

Political dissatisfaction. Voting for Minor parties rather than Major parties.

I feel that there is a lot of that in play, especially in the latest Election.

Voter dissatisfaction with Democrats.

The Democrats became a pseudo Greens party & people dropped them..

Blue collar workers wouldn’t normally understand the intimate workings of free trade, deregulation & Economic Rationalism nor care or know all that much for the World financial institutions.

One Nation Preferences would normally fall back to a Conservative Party.

Well that’s my take on the Watsons Paper. Agreed I don’t understand the Statistical Graphs.
Posted by Jayb, Wednesday, 27 July 2016 9:35:43 PM
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Let's see if we can analyse Ian Cooks mindset and figure out how he thinks.

Ian is implying that the people who vote for Pauline Hanson are dumb white males, and that conclusion is born out by "academic surveys and by opinion polls." First up, those surveys and opinion polls are notoriously unreliable. The same polls laughed at the idea that Trump could ever get up steam to even be a Republican nominee. They confidently predicted that Britain would not Brexit, that John Hewson could not lose the "unlosable" election, and that Turnbull would romp home.

As for regional demographics, the first thing your polls did not mention, is that support for multiculturalism is highest in those electorates the furtherest from it's negative consequences. "Smart" people can get very self righteous and when confronted by moral issues which do not affect them in any way. As a former member of the Australians Against Immigration Party, we soon figured out that our greatest support in terms of voting proportions came from within those electorates that were completely infested by Muslims, or other less-than-desirable immigrant groups. The muzzies may have succeeded in driving out most the Australians, but those who were left in what soon will be Muslim no-go areas were very bitter.

A lot of the dumb white men who got driven out of certain suburbs by foreign immigrants went to places like Queensland or outer Sydney, as far away from multiculturalism and Islam as they could afford to get. Unsurprisingly, they and their wives voted for Pauline Hanson because they don't want to be driven from their homes again.

Now, your presumption that only the dummies voted for Pauline by inference suggests that the "smart" people do not. But those "smart" people are unable to focus upon the Muslim express train coming right at their faces until a bomb blows up on their suburban train, or a bunch of Jihadis start running through their private schools shooting their kids. They feel secure in their leafy suburbs and in their gated communities, protected by economic fences higher than the Berlin Wall.
Posted by LEGO, Thursday, 28 July 2016 6:48:50 AM
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