❓ Question regarding One Nation's moderation of policies on race and multiculturalism. The answer asserts that One Nation has not softened its stance and criticizes the Leader of the Opposition for considering preference deals with them.
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ONE NATION, MODERATION OF POLICIES
The current Leader of the Opposition and other apologists for One Nation claim that that party has moderated its policies. Has One Nation softened its position on matters such as race and multiculturalism? Dr GALLOP
The current Leader of the Opposition and other apologists for One Nation claim that that party has moderated its policies. Has One Nation softened its position on matters such as race and multiculturalism? Dr GALLOP
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There is a simple answer to that question, and it is no. Mr Johnson interjected. Dr GALLOP: So the member for Hillarys is an expert! Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Dr GALLOP replied: There is a simple answer to that question, and it is no. Mr Johnson interjected. Dr GALLOP: So the member for Hillarys is an expert! Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
There is a simple answer to that question, and it is no. Mr Johnson interjected. Dr GALLOP: So the member for Hillarys is an expert! Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Mr Johnson interjected. Dr GALLOP: So the member for Hillarys is an expert! Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Dr GALLOP: So the member for Hillarys is an expert! Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Dr GALLOP replied: There is a simple answer to that question, and it is no. Mr Johnson interjected. Dr GALLOP: So the member for Hillarys is an expert! Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
There is a simple answer to that question, and it is no. Mr Johnson interjected. Dr GALLOP: So the member for Hillarys is an expert! Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Mr Johnson interjected. Dr GALLOP: So the member for Hillarys is an expert! Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Dr GALLOP: So the member for Hillarys is an expert! Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Mr Johnson: Have you seen its latest policies? Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Dr GALLOP: The latest policies! What are One Nation’s latest policies? According to the member for Hillarys, it has softened and changed its policies. Of course, he is an expert! He would be the one person in this Parliament who would be an expert, because he was very happy to do a deal with One Nation at the last election. To determine whether One Nation has changed its policies, to whom would one go? I would have thought that one would go to the president and leader of the party - the one and only Pauline Hanson. She was asked yesterday on 6PR whether she had changed her views from those expressed in her maiden speech. Do members remember her maiden speech, in which she claimed that we were being swamped by Asians and that Aboriginal people were getting privileges in Australia today that they should not be getting? In answer to those who say that One Nation has changed its policies, the Leader of One Nation - not the member for Hillarys - said that that is just a weak, pathetic excuse by the major political parties. She said that they are coming out and saying that only because that gives them justification for now wanting to swap preferences with One Nation. Fog is being pumped into the atmosphere by those on the other side of the House who want to do a dirty deal with One Nation. However, we know the truth. The truth is that One Nation is a reactionary, divisive party that will destroy jobs and undermine our community. It will be at the bottom of the Labor Party how-to-vote cards. Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
Mr Bruce Baird, the federal Liberal member from New South Wales, said of his Western Australian colleagues that no political party which regards itself as having a moral conscience should permit such a thing to happen. I am afraid that it has happened. The Leader of the Opposition has orchestrated a diminution of the reputation of our State. He is a diminished leader and his party has diminished. As a result of that, he has diminished all of us who live in this community. He has sold out. He is now the leader of a Liberal-One Nation coalition in this Parliament.
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