{"id":744192,"date":"2026-06-18T09:48:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744192\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:48:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:48:10","slug":"pauline-hansons-speech-shameful-and-echoed-rubbish-from-rightwing-figures-in-uk-and-us-critics-say-pauline-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/744192\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson\u2019s speech \u2018shameful\u2019 and echoed \u2018rubbish\u2019 from rightwing figures in UK and US, critics say | Pauline Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pauline Hanson has been roundly condemned for her National Press Club speech, with advocacy groups accusing the One Nation leader of using \u201chatred for political gain\u201d while the Greens say Hanson is echoing \u201crubbish\u201d lines from rightwing figures in the UK and US.<\/p>\n

In Hanson\u2019s first address after 20 years in politics, the leader claimed transgender ideology \u201chas penetrated almost every regulatory authority\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hanson also claimed without evidence that schoolchildren were having dangerous ideology \u201cimposed\u201d on them, and likened trans awareness to militant Islam.<\/p>\n

Equality Australia\u2019s legal director, Heather Corkhill, said the language used could make trans people greater targets for hate and violence.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHanson\u2019s comments are simply shameful, and are a stark example of the extreme rhetoric being directed at trans Australians,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when we are seeing an alarming rise in often violent, targeted attacks against LGBTIQ+ people, Hanson has taken her opportunity to accelerate this hatred for political gain.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a bald attempt to turn a small and vulnerable minority into a political scapegoat.\u201d<\/p>\n

The group said polling for Equality Australia by Redbridge Group in March 2025 found 81% of Australians agreed or strongly agreed that trans people deserve the same rights and protections as other Australians.<\/p>\n

Hanson said she did not believe trans women should be allowed in women\u2019s sports and promised to sack the sex discrimination commissioner, Anna Cody.<\/p>\n

\u201cAlmost every instrument of government [is] dedicated to a transgender ideology which seeks to redefine humanity,\u201d Hanson claimed.<\/p>\n

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young<\/a> called the speech \u201cdeplorable\u201d and accused Hanson of attacking half the country with her comments against Australians born overseas or whose parent was born overseas.<\/p>\n

\u201cPauline Hanson said herself today she has not changed, and boy didn\u2019t we see that same old hate, that same old fear and same old racism,\u201d Hanson-Young said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPauline Hanson is deplorable, she\u2019s nasty, she\u2019s got no new ideas, and she\u2019s just trumpeting the same old rubbish we\u2019re seeing from the United States and the hard right in the UK.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hanson said in her speech that opposing multiculturalism was \u201cnot racist\u201d. The One Nation leader was accused of racist and divisive language in February, after she said there were no \u201cgood\u201d Muslims<\/a>. In 2024, Hanson was found by a judge to have engaged in racial discrimination<\/a> against Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi.<\/p>\n

Refugee groups have also called out Hanson over inflammatory comments against multiculturalism, including her claim that Australia should be \u201cmonocultural\u201d.<\/p>\n

Hanson claimed western values were under siege, and governments were too \u201cfrightened\u201d to crack down on Islamic extremism.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural. Australians must live under the one cultural umbrella,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n

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Deputy chief executive of the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre, Jana Favero, said she was \u201cshocked and disgusted\u201d hearing the address, warning the language was contributing to an increase in racism in Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe attacked multicultural Australia, she demonised people from different backgrounds,\u201d Favero said. \u201cWe\u2019re already seeing the consequences of the language that\u2019s been coming from Pauline Hanson and One Nation<\/a> and other political leaders \u2013 we\u2019ve seen an increase in racism reported by our staff, our multicultural staff and our volunteers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia chair, Peter Doukas, said the idea of a monocultural country was a \u201ccomplete fabrication\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were Australians of many cultures sent to Gallipoli and Kokoda, there were First Nations soldiers throughout all our wars, so the basic principle of us \u2018returning\u2019 to a single culture is a complete fabrication.\u201d<\/p>\n

The foreign affairs minister, Penny Wong, offered a short rebuke of Hanson\u2019s comments against multiculturalism, telling reporters at a press conference, \u201cwhat she offers is division and anger, but no answers\u201d.<\/p>\n

Labor frontbencher Matt Thistlethwaite said Hanson had today \u201crevealed her true colours\u201d over her call to make it easier for bosses to sack workers, and previous opposition to wage rises. During the address, Hanson said small businesses could not afford wage rises.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is One Nation\u2019s true colours coming through, they do not support workers and we see that that today in the comments she made,\u201d Thistlethwaite told the ABC.<\/p>\n

Coalition senator James McGrath called the speech a \u201ca series of grumbles and complaints\u201d and took aim at Hanson\u2019s threat to shut down SBS and gut the ABC.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t go around and just ban media organisations, regardless of your view of them,\u201d he told Sky News.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fourth estate has a very important role to make sure that all politicians, regardless of our political positions, are held to account.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson has been roundly condemned for her National Press Club speech, with advocacy groups accusing the One…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744193,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-744192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744192","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=744192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}