Despite repeating the claim several times, she told One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce she had been “misquoted”.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We have legitimised ourselves,” Mr Joyce jokingly quipped at the start of the interview on Tuesday’s Afternoon Briefing.<\/p>\n
“Did you? Do you feel legitimised?” Ms Karvelas replied.<\/p>\n
The One Nation MP remarked: “Well I didn\u2019t know we were illegitimate beforehand.”<\/p>\n
“You\u2019re referring to comments I made on Saturday night, where I was misquoted by your people,” she said.<\/p>\n
“No, I watched it,” Mr Joyce said.<\/p>\n
But the ABC host claimed: “You clipped out the other bit where I said Coalition MPs believe that this legitimises you.”<\/p>\n
On Saturday, Ms Karvelas was discussing the Coalition’s decision to preference One Nation over independent Michelle Milthorpe with co-host David Speers.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt was actually people like Ron Boswell who was a very well known National who campaigned to put One Nation last, so that\u2019s the history, that you\u2019ve got the most conservative people who believed it was a big and dangerous mistake to legitimise One Nation and to embolden One Nation,\u201d Ms Karvelas said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere we\u2019ve had (Opposition Leader) Angus Taylor make a deliberate decision to preference One Nation above the independent, which tonight could really be one of the reasons they get across the line.”<\/p>\n
The ABC host went on to repeat the suggestion One Nation’s success in Farrer would “legitimise” them.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll see how the votes come through but that will be key, and that will legitimise them,” she said.<\/p>\n
On another occasion during the broadcast, Karvelas used the term again.<\/p>\n
“I used the term earlier on in the broadcast the permission structure \u2014 if they are able to win their first lower house seat, that begins the process of legitimising them.<\/p>\n
“In other electorates where they may run, voters thinking well it\u2019s happened before, it\u2019s normal now, you start normalising something.”<\/p>\n
After Ms Karvelas’ comments aired, Ms Hanson accused the national broadcaster of “sheer arrogance” for framing One Nation as an illegitimate political entity before the party\u2019s win in Farrer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsn’t this a democracy? Don’t you put your policies forward and what you want to do for the country, isn’t it up to the people? Or are we a third world country? (Do) we have no right to go out there and express what we want to for the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis way, they’ll lose. I’m telling you, this sheer arrogance from both sides, that’s why they will lose. People want down-to-earth, common-sense people who are really there to fight for them. That’s what it’s about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ABC host Patricia Karvelas has denied she suggested Saturday’s win in Farrer would “legitimise” One Nation for voters.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":668752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2655,64,63,261092,44,60504,106335,14754],"class_list":["post-668751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-abc","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-david-farley","tag-news","tag-one-nation","tag-patricia-karvelas","tag-pauline-hanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=668751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/668751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/668752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=668751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=668751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=668751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}