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An Australian politician known for her staunch anti-immigration policy has praised a remote Indian island tribe for defending their way of life after reportedly killing an American missionary with bows and arrows earlier this month. Sen. Pauline Hanson, of the country’s One Nation Party, filed a motion on Tuesday calling for the Senate to "support the desire of the Sentinelese people to protect their culture and way of life,” Australia’s ABC News reported. "I for one will not be condemning the Sentinelese as racist for keeping their borders closed, nor will I condemn them for their lack of diversity,” Hanson...

An Australian senator provoked an angry backlash from lawmakers by wearing a burqa in Parliament on Thursday as part of her campaign for a national ban on Islamic face covers. Pauline Hanson, leader of the anti-Muslim, anti-immigration One Nation minor party, sat wearing the black head-to-ankle garment for more than 10 minutes before taking it off as she rose to explain that she wanted such outfits banned on national security grounds. “There has been a large majority of Australians (who) wish to see the banning of the burqa,” said Hanson, an outspoken fan of President Donald Trump, as senators objected.

THE Grand Mufti of Australia has just proved that Pauline Hanson is right to feel threatened by Islam in this country. Ibrahim Abu Mohammad has written an astonishing letter warning that to criticise even a gay-hating imam is to risk inciting terrorist attacks against us. His inflammatory letter perfectly demonstrates why Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was a fool to hold an Iftar dinner for the Mufti and other troubling Muslim leaders during the election campaign. And Turnbull’s dinner — shown on all TV news bulletins — may explain why Hanson’s vote on Saturday was so high, helping her to win...

TONY Abbott must return as leader of the shattered Liberals after Saturday’s election disaster. ..... True, Abbott ideally needs months more to repair the image that a smart-arse media tore to shreds, feeding off his sometimes dumb mistakes. But who else but Abbott could hope to fix what Turnbull has just smashed? This election result has been a near-total catastrophe for the Liberals, who have been left without a mandate, platform, unity, honour or real power after letting Turnbull hijack their party last year. Turnbull, a man of the ABC Left, then ditched the Liberals’ base, Liberal principles and even...

UPDATE 12.55pm: PAULINE Hanson hangs up on radio interview about her refusal to sell her house to a Muslim when quizzed about other unacceptable buyers. While the former One Nation leader's house is still on the market, she says Asians and Muslims need not bother putting in any offers. But she has also bristled on Fox FM when asked by Matt Tilley about the possibility of gay couples moving into her house. Listen to Pauline's Fox FM interview here. While Ms Hanson declared "Australians are very tolerant", she was less so when pressed on how she would react if other...

Ms Hanson has told Woman’s Day that Australia is no longer the land of opportunity and she’s looking for a peaceful, less notorious existence. But we’d all do well not to forget about the former fish and chip shop owner-turned politician. For the past decade and a half Hanson has served as a powerful warning to politicians and the media of the dangers of forgetting to ask people what they think. Just to be clear I found most of Ms Hanson’s political views objectionable, and in no way subscribe to her world view. But as the years have worn down...

FUNNY how Pauline Hanson doesn't seem scary any more. Maybe the lady is owed an apology. When the One Nation founder first entered politics, she was spat on, vilified, threatened, jostled, screamed at, ridiculed and eventually jailed, unjustly. But, this week, in announcing she'd stand yet again, Hanson boasted: "Many of the things I was on about (in the 1990s) John Howard has done." "She's right there, and Australia is a harsher place for it," snapped Daily Telegraph commentator Mark Day, now a moralist after making his fortune with the show-us-yer-t.ts Truth. The usual Howard-haters agreed, which may explain their...