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

SOL: other 'foreigners' from Muslim countries,

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

Good on ya Mal.

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.

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.

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.

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)