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Hanson sides with the privileged on penalty rates : Comments

By John Slater, published 30/3/2017

This backflip exposes that in substance, Pauline Hanson and One Nation are less of a new home for disenfranchised True Conservatives than a weathervane for populist, misinformed grievance.

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Hanson would do even better if she got rid of the runt hanging off her right teat.
Her political science is not yet settled.
Posted by doog, Sunday, 2 April 2017 1:12:35 PM
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Yeah, but it's like this, John. Pauline Hanson is the only politician in Australia smart enough to say that Muslim immigration into Australia must cease. So, I don't care if she backflips over penalty rates, or sprouts some anti vaccination nonsense. On the important issue of Muslim immigration, she is absolutely right. So, John, she has got my vote.

Walled Ali can advocate the "Muslim" "Australians". Noel Pearson can advocate for aborigines. Penny Wong can advocate for Chinese, and nobody is going to criticise any of them. But if Pauline Hanson advocates for white Australians, it is racism. White people are racists, but nobody else is. I have a real problem with that mindset, John.
Posted by LEGO, Sunday, 2 April 2017 1:17:04 PM
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John Slater writes:

<<<"Voters seeking to throw weight behind a party willing to confront the issues of unsustained spending largesse, Australia's waning competitiveness and our fading entrepreneurial spirit would be well advised to look elsewhere than One Nation. Pauline Hanson's brand of conservatism is little better than snake oil">>>

Your problem is that most people will not accept ever increasing inequality alongside entrenched poverty, so the manner of confronting those issues you outlined above will be subject to popular opinion.

No doubt your brand of conservatism will only increase poverty and inequality in a free-market, global economy (implying a race to the bottom on the wages and taxation side), as well-paying manufacturing jobs are replaced by low-paying service jobs, in an environment of increasing under-employment.
Posted by a better world, Sunday, 2 April 2017 1:25:16 PM
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Last nights ABC bashing of Pauline Hanson was to be expected.
It points up the difficulties in small parties.
Her appointment of whatshisname as a senior adviser seems to have been a major mistake.

A real measure of that party will be how they overcome their internal
problems and find better management people.
Unfortunately it seems that political parties need quite different managers.

However despite all that as it stands One Nation, and a couple of
others will be getting my preference before Libs, Lab & Greens in that order.
Posted by Bazz, Tuesday, 4 April 2017 3:46:55 PM
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