{"id":811974,"date":"2026-07-20T09:57:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811974\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T09:57:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T09:57:30","slug":"barnaby-joyce-defends-one-nations-pauline-hanson-after-white-australia-policy-comments-to-tommy-robinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/811974\/","title":{"rendered":"Barnaby Joyce defends One Nation\u2019s Pauline Hanson after White Australia Policy comments to Tommy Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pauline Hanson\u2019s criticism of the consequences <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/world\/europe\/farage-lauds-hanson-as-she-and-rinehart-attend-uk-conservative-pow-wow-20260718-p60gee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">of abolishing the White Australia Policy<\/a> did not mean she supported the measure, her colleague Barnaby Joyce said, but the government claimed the One Nation\u2019s leader\u2019s comments could only be read one way.<\/p>\n<p>After Hanson returned to Australia on Monday following a controversial two weeks abroad, Joyce was forced to defend Hanson\u2019s comments to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afr.com\/link\/follow-20180101-p609v8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">far-right British activist Tommy Robinson<\/a>, in which she said Australia\u2019s multicultural problems began with the abolition of the policy more than 50 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson\u2019s criticism of the consequences of abolishing the White Australia Policy did not mean she supported the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":811975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-811974","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\/811974","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=811974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/811975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}