Pauline Hanson: The problem woman (for the left)

One Nation is the only major federal party in Australia with a female leader.

This week, David Shoebridge defeated Mehreen Faruqi and Sarah Hanson-Young to become the new leader of the radical Greens party. Pauline Hanson is now the only woman leading a federal party with more than one sitting member. Why does that not count as diversity?

Jacqui Lambie and Fatima Payman lead one-senator outfits, and the Greens now have a woman as deputy. That is not the same thing. The biggest issue is the double standard. Pauline Hanson is a woman, but the wrong kind of woman.

If we were to celebrate women in politics, as some universities do (and actively promote), why is Pauline Hanson not their shining light?

They’re not Menzies’ forgotten people, they’re One Nation’s fed-up people

They're not forgotten, they're fed up!

 

When Menzies spoke of the ‘forgotten people’, he meant the middle class – the engine room of the economy, neither rich enough to live off capital nor poor enough to live off the state.

Under Albanese, that class has been crowded out by a client class of grant recipients, public-sector dependants, and subsidised NGOs for whom government is not a last resort but a business model. To Menzies’ forgotten people that idea was sacrilege. To Labor’s clients it is an entitlement.

Somebody always has to pay.

The people paying, in money and in culture, are ordinary Australians.

When I read Barnaby Joyce’s statements, I cringe a little at the language and the repetition. His message is right, but the delivery is rough. Polish it and you would only sound like the Coalition. And people have stopped trusting the polish.

If Albanese is a ‘global citizen’, we should Section 44 him

The global village idiot gets a gong while at the UN in New York, the socialist capital of the world.

There’s always one… Albo is Australia’s (global) village idiot.

For proof of this, he received the Atlantic Council Global Citizen Award, handed to him at the Waldorf Astoria during UN General Assembly week. Apparently, it indicates Albo is one of the leading and influential they/them statespersons.

It didn’t come cheap. And I’m not talking about the $4,000-a-night ballroom on Park Avenue.

Papua New Guinea’s James Marape introduced our proud houso-boy-turned-Copacabana-PM as a ‘fair dinkum Aussie’.

As I watched Albo stand between Keanu Reeves and a Formula One executive, I could not help but think this is the same old vanguard of the dictatorship of the proletariat that has failed in every instance throughout history.

Once the communist-curious Labor politicians get a taste of wealth and power, they lean more toward entitled champagne socialism than the working-class.

Then the Internationale gives them a gong, and the ego trip sends them off with the fairies.

When it comes to this celebrated global influence, the trouble for Albo is that he isn’t leading a middle power. Which means he can’t lead the middle powers in some type of suicidal empathy. He has reduced Australia to a nothing power.