Live: Pauline Hanson's press club address interrupted by protest banner (www.abc.net.au)

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I do have to question if that is giving her more attention, eg. "interrupted by protest banner" vs "Pauline Hanson's press club address" really what we want?

With that out the way she said all the things that would have conservatives locked down for their vote, I don't think it'll be enough to topple Labor but I can definitely see them collapsing the national party and liberal party vote significantly, a one nation opposition party, what a world

Muslims, transgenders, australian culture, immigration, cost of living...the stars have aligned for her it seems

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[-] BucketBong@p.hobo.social 3 points 6 hours ago

Gina Reinhart is her biggest donator, that should explain enough.

[-] Lodespawn@aussie.zone 17 points 13 hours ago

Hanson has questioned why people working in childcare centres need university degrees to work with children.

I was a mother of four children. I didn't have a university degree to look after my children, Hanson says.

Why do we now expect these childcare centres to have students or people with some sort of degree to look after a child? It's just got out of proportion. It's just ridiculous.

Because we don't want our kids to turn out like fucking idiots like you, Jesus fuck.

[-] arbilp3@aussie.zone 5 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Well done, GetUp! This message and other similar ones must be shown whenever possible.

[-] eureka@aussie.zone 9 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I do have to question if that is giving her more attention, eg. “interrupted by protest banner” vs “Pauline Hanson’s press club address” really what we want?

PHON is not a problem that can just be ignored, considering that capitalist mass media is constantly promoting her and the party is regularly claiming polls and some election results of >20%. We are past the era of denying attention. If we're lucky, we're still in the era of education and inoculation against their propaganda.

If news outlets are going to promote her on the big stage no matter what, let's mock her on that big stage.

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 12 hours ago

considering that capitalist mass media is constantly promoting her

Where are you seeing promotion from the mass media? Not just like reporting on what she says but actually promoting her

[-] eureka@aussie.zone 4 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Fair call, promotion wasn't the best word. What I meant to say was, they give her airtime without criticism - I'd say that's a form of support, for a similar reason to your concern about giving her attention. Even if we're talking about cases where the reporting is neutral, factual and with minimal bias, it's still selected and reported on regularly, and that shapes the worldview of the audience, especially if the heavily-flawed ideas Hanson espouses aren't addressed in the reporting. Repeating their messages verbatim through a megaphone is spreading their ideas - outlets almost never do the same with open neo-Nazis' speeches, for obvious reasons.

And as is common knowledge, there are additionally some mass media favourably promoting PHON, like Sky News, who have already called this event a "failed stunt" (lol)

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 11 hours ago

like Sky News, who have already called this event a “failed stunt” (lol)

That's kind of what I'm a bit worried about, they will use this to fuel the war they think they're having

[-] auzy1@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Gina rinehart literally bought 10% of Channel 7. Thats why it feels like every 2 posts is a "pauline is great" post on facebook

[-] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 2 points 10 hours ago

Facebook has been cooker island for years now, I was sad that under 16's got banned from Facebook but over 65's didn't get the same treatment

[-] galoisghost@aussie.zone 7 points 13 hours ago

I despair for this country. We’ve watch Trump ruin the USA and cause economic pain across the world and the voting public and the media are just. Cool. Our turn!

[-] eureka@aussie.zone 4 points 13 hours ago

and the media are just. Cool. Our turn!

and this makes plenty of sense once we inspect the owning shareholders of media corporations. Protip: it's owning-class ultrawealthy parasites, same as in the USA