It takes a special kind of politician to go overseas and make a speech vilifying their own country, but Pauline Hanson has never been one for observing basic standards of decorum.
Her party, One Nation, feels very much at home overseas, and especially in the US — after all, One Nation offered to try to water down Australia’s gun laws in exchange for funding from the National Rifle Association.
Is it worth fact-checking Hanson’s address to the far-right faithful at Trump’s Xanadu? It would take too long to list the lies about both the US and Australia, such as our alleged migration intake of 740,000 (try less than half that, Pauline), her claim Australia has more homeless people than the US, or the “no-go areas” in Australia created by migration of “hateful, radical migrants” (which presumably means, erm, the British, New Zealanders, Indians and Chinese who make up the great bulk of our migration).