People Against Live Exports & Intensive Farming

"I can tell you right now she was not against aboriginal people."

Hanson stated openly when she first stood for the seat of Oxley that if elected she would not represent the Aboriginals in her electorate. That sounds fairly "against" them to me. Right from the moment she first gained public attention, she made it her business to stir up resentment against the few token gains Aborigines had managed to achieve.

"We are a country of givers. Good people with big hearts."

What you really mean is we've got big hearts for white Australians, but not for Aboriginals and migrants.

"There is nothing wrong with looking after your own first."

Again, this is code for - We only want to look after those who are white like us. The rest can go hang.

I find your lack of empathy and compasssion here difficult to fathom knowing the enormous empathy and conpassion you have for animals.

Her massively underqualified opinion was a blight on the international resume of Australia. All the world heard from her face was 'damn foreigner' rhetoric. No one outside of Australia gives a toss about 'the battler', we only cared about Australia's policies on dealing with other nations. There was ZERO debate on whether she made any sense or not, no one cared. She was a WHITE HEAD on Australia's international face. No one would take Australia seriously with something like her appearing to be sanctioned by the Government.

PALE&IF is obviously diversifying. Given the topics to which they've made their distinctively garbled contributions at OLO lately, perhaps they should be renamed 'People Against Live Exports, Intensive Farming, Non-Anglos and Shared Parenting'.

TurnLeftThenRight,
Thanks for your constructive comments. Firstly I did not say Pauline was or would be a good MP. The best judges of that would be her constituents in Oxley. She may not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer, but there are plenty of other MPs that obviously were not dux of their school. Even a lot of MPs with academic quals and high education did not appear to get much common sense along the way.

Certainly Pauline had some shortcomings and made quite a few mistakes.Anyone that doesn't make mistakes is not trying. But, for a novice, under incredible scrutiny and pressure, I think she did pretty well. I won't list her shortcomings as there are plenty here willing to bag her and I don't intend to give them ammunition.

I don't know about a consprisy between the Government and the media, but the two major parties and the Government of the day would have to be just about the largest buyers of advertising the media has. This being so the media will naturally look to their interests first. The smaller parties and indepenmdants find it difficult to get their views published. A simple suggestion to deprive her of oxygen would be enough to curtail media attention. The media dropped her in a very short space of time. I recall Murdock's comment of 'kill the cow' which changed the way all their media outlets presented news about Pauline.

Ginx,
Only a week or so ago I found myself agreeing to a comment you made and now you are in agreement with me on this issue. This is unsettleing and could confuse a simple bloke like me. I certainly don't see you as agreeing with many of Pauline's policies but apparently you agree with my summation of events surrounding her. I must say you are far more understandable when you post in coherant english and not trying to be smart. Thanks for the comments.

StG “Her massively underqualified opinion was a blight on the international resume of Australia.”

Love that line.

What a load of pretentious crap!

One of the enduring delights of the British electoral season was the Raving Monster Looney Party. A happy band of brothers who, whilst never elected, displayed due reverence to the process and graciously forwent their deposit on every seat they contested. They were eccentric.

The great politicians are always a little out-there or maybe just eccentric.

Pauline, was / is an eccentric. I do not pretend to defend her politics but if you think her presence on the Australian political stage was a “blight” then you are wrong.

Your argument about her influence on the reputation of Australia is garbage. Educated people and people who matter have a more researched and rounded view of what Australia is than relying on the rhetoric of a chip shop operator.

The only ones who would find Paulines influence a “blight” are the uneducated and small minded.

I guess that answers the question where should we place you, from your take on Paulin

Rouge.

IS that why she's a successful politician?