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| The peril of Pauline, HELLO boys! I'M BACK? |
paraclete |
12/07/06 |
PAULINE HANSON, WHO 10 YEARS AGO FLAGSHIPPED THE MOVEMENT OF AUSTRALIAN POLITICS TO THE RIGHT IS BACK AND LOADED FOR ANYTHING THAT MOVES
Perils of Pauline out of Africa
By Nick Butterly
December 07, 2006 12:12pm
Article from: AAP
UP to a third of Black South Africans coming into Australia may have TB and some have AIDS, according to One Nation founder Pauline Hanson.
Flagging a political comeback at next year's federal election, Ms Hanson also said she was angry Australians were unable to swim in public baths because of the sensitivities of Muslims.
"You don't bend over backwards appeasing their demands because the politicians want their vote ... unless you change this you will have social incohesion which is already happening in this country," she said on Southern Cross radio.
"If they don't want it, then they can go back where they came from."
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Ms Hanson said she was committed to running as an independent in Queensland at the next election, though she had not made up her mind if she would run for the lower house or the Senate.
She said she decided to make a political comeback after members of the public had urged her to do so.
"I have still got a lot of issues and I have still got a lot of concerns like a lot of Australians and I think that I would like to voice my opinions and have a say on behalf of the Australian people, to represent them," she said.
Ms Hanson said federal parliamentary secretary for immigration Andrew Robb had admitted on television that the Government was letting in many "black South Africans" with health issues.
"Andrew Robb actually admitted that a few months ago, it was on TV," she said.
"He indicated there was around about 37 per cent of black South Africans that were coming in with ongoing health issues."
Ms Hanson said she had been told by a hospital worker of an African woman with AIDS who had given birth to a child with AIDS.
"There's increasing numbers of TB (tuberculosis) and they have picked up ... it could be almost one third that actually carries TB," she said.
"I have got children, grandchildren ... I would hate to see anyone who may be subjected to catching TB or AIDS."
Questioned on her concerns about Muslims, Ms Hanson said she was angry that Australians were no longer able to sing Christmas carols in schools or swim in public swimming pools.
"What people are getting all upset about is the fact that you can't sing Christmas carols in schools because it upsets a certain amount of people," she said.
"You can't actually swim in baths because a certain amount of people want their privacy to swim in those baths, swimming baths and pools that have been paid for by the taxpayers over the years and yet they are closed to everyone to use at the same time."
Politicians were quick to rebuff Ms Hanson's comments.
Australian Democrats senator Andrew Bartlett , who faces a fight to retain his Queensland seat next year, said: "Once again Pauline Hanson opens her mouth and spreads offensive urban myths that bear no resemblance to reality.
"She brings no evidence to back up her claims. They are nothing more than hearsay.
"Her musings don't further debate or address community concerns, they only cause fear and division and they must be challenged."
Queensland Premier Peter Beattie, who has earned the ire of Ms Hanson for rejecting her bid to be compensated for wrongful imprisonment, said although he disagreed with her ideas he supported her democratic right to run.
Mr Beattie said disillusionment in Queensland with the Nationals would boost the cause of Ms Hanson and other right wing political movements such as Bob Katter's "The Beast".
"It's really going to be an interesting time in the next federal election," Mr Beattie said.
"I think the heart of it is disillusionment with conservative politics in the bush and the regions."
Ms Hanson said she would make an official announcement about her comeback next year. She said she would give herself plenty of time to campaign.
Ms Hanson was jailed in 2003 for fraudulently registering the One Nation party and spent 73 days in prison before her conviction was overturned.
She split from her former party and has spent the past two years writing her autobiography.
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Pauline is a colourful figure and not afraid to say what most of us are thinking, who's country is this anyway. It doesn't belong to the Lebs, it doesn't belong to the Abo's, it doesn't belong to the kiwi's, it doesn't belong to the yank's, it it belongs to those who have worked hard to preserve a particular way of life and a lifestyle which is the envy of the world. |
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