{"id":933259,"date":"2026-10-19T02:28:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933259\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T02:28:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T02:28:17","slug":"jacqui-lambie-condemns-one-nation-cartoon-mocking-her-struggle-with-vaginal-prolapse-one-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/933259\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqui Lambie condemns One Nation cartoon mocking her struggle with vaginal prolapse | One Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jacqui Lambie has condemned a One Nation cartoon mocking her health struggle with vaginal prolapse, as Labor and crossbenchers expressed their support for the Tasmanian senator.<\/p>\n

The latest cartoon, part of Pauline Hanson\u2019s Please Explain series, took aim at the Albanese government\u2019s Digital Duty of Care legislation, which targets online safety.<\/p>\n

It depicts Lambie, an army veteran, as saying \u201cI can\u2019t laugh because of my prolapsed vagina\u201d before adding a crude sound effect ridiculing the health condition.<\/p>\n

In an emotional address in the upper house in August<\/a>, the independent senator spoke of her own struggles with the women\u2019s health issue and the lack of access to care faced by other female veterans.<\/p>\n

Responding to the cartoon on Monday, Lambie said voters doing it tough in a cost-of-living crisis didn\u2019t need any more \u201cnastiness\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would have just thought that if those people, and especially those men in there, if they had any front whatsoever, what they do is ask her to remove that effective immediately,\u201d she told ABC\u2019s RN.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you think it\u2019s a laughable matter about women having problems with their reproductive system then you be my guest, and you stand by her. But seriously, enough is enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Releasing a statement following her media appearance, Lambie said going public with her condition didn\u2019t make her health \u201cfair game\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cSpeaking openly is not an invitation to be mocked or degraded. We should be encouraging these conversations so people feel comfortable seeking help,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy making this cartoon, One Nation<\/a> didn\u2019t just make light of my own medical struggles, but those of so many other women who have experienced reproductive health issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

Industry Minister Tim Ayres said he was \u201cshocked at how low these One Nation people will go\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s kind of imported overseas politics, this kind of nasty style of politics, kicking at people, denigrating them, trying to make them feel small,\u201d he told Nine\u2019s Today Show.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s tens of thousands of Australian women who battle with health conditions like this one or others, and they don\u2019t deserve to be smashed up by some cheap, nasty bit of political propaganda run out of Pauline Hanson\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n

Speaking about Hanson, Lambie said \u201cdecent leaders don\u2019t stir up hatred, pushing us towards bloody anarchy\u201d.<\/p>\n

Independent Victorian MP Monique Ryan condemned the cartoon on Sunday, saying Lambie had shown \u201ccourage and honesty in speaking of her experience of vaginal prolapse\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPelvic organ prolapse \u2013 bladder or vaginal \u2013 affects about 1 in 12 Australian women. It\u2019s often linked to physical strain, heavy lifting or past childbirth. It\u2019s uncomfortable and debilitating.<\/p>\n

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In sharing her experience of the condition in parliament, Ryan said Lambie \u201ctalked about an awkward subject to make it easier for other affected women. Pauline Hanson thinks that\u2019s worth making fun of.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cartoon also doubles down on claiming Liberal MP and former special forces soldier Andrew Hastie is a \u201ctraitor\u201d, which portrays him as believing his veteran status should exempt him from criticism.<\/p>\n

\u201cTraitor, a traitor? But I\u2019m a veteran,\u201d his character in the cartoon says.<\/p>\n

Hastie, who also served in Afghanistan with the elite SAS regiment, has been attacked by One Nation for testifying during the defamation trial of accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith.<\/p>\n

The Victoria Cross recipient has been charged over five alleged murders involving unarmed detainees during his deployment in Afghanistan between 2009 and 2012.<\/p>\n

Roberts-Smith denies the allegations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jacqui Lambie has condemned a One Nation cartoon mocking her health struggle with vaginal prolapse, as Labor and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":933260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-933259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933259","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=933259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/933260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}