"Goodbye, Land of Oz! I loved Australia so much!"
Posted on 02/14/2010 3:53:14 PM PST by myknowledge
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 since her late-90s hey day, it’s become clear she represented a large section of the community who thought no-one in Parliament House, be they MPs or journalists, were listening to them.
The very people who went after Ms Hanson with such gusto failed to recognise at the time that her public self was in some ways a creation of their own making.
She said what she thought and we called her stupid.
Instead of entering into a conversation with Ms Hanson and the people who shared her views, the political establishment instead alternately took turns mocking her, trying to ignore her, or outdo her.
Yes the 15 year campaign to smash her political power was generally effective, Ms Hanson told Woman’s Day she’d accepted she’ll never again make it into an Australian parliament.
But it would be very naive to think her supporters have all changed their minds and joined the Greens. The conversation isn’t over, it’s just gone a bit quiet.
"Goodbye, Land of Oz! I loved Australia so much!"
Pls educate us a bit about Ms. Hanson (those of us not totally in-tuned with ‘Down Under’ politics).
SO instead she wants to find peace and quiet in Londonistan??
Great list and I like all of them Edward Abbey included. He would be in a car being interviewed by Rolling Stone and tossing beer cans out the window as they talked and rolled along. He was the opposite of the city bound greenies we have today
Precisely. A patriot! Old school! Word! America the Beautiful.
Edward Abbey would never have been duped by global warming. He would have laughed or punched him out if he met AlGore in person
I already knew this, but just double checked with Wikipedia. She set up "Pauline Hanson's Support Group" in order to get funding. Now she got over 500 support donations. Next, she then used the 500 names to say they were then part of her political party. This was "Pauline Hanson's One Nation". She then got more funds for that party.
A fine point, because I believe this did not constitute an actual membership. Merely persons who sent monies. She got a shocking three years imprisonment. Three years, on a technicality. One can sense the venom and spite of the left here.
A Queensland court threw it out about three months later on appeal.
Maybe Manchester. Fewer muzzies there.
Thats possible too. She should have considered Alberta CA or Texas
From what little I know about British politics, Hanson will find that she has dropped out of the frying pan, and only finding herself landing onto the naked fire. She will find the average Britons really way more left-wing than the Australian counterparts (just notice they are on average, just a notch below New Zealand Labour and Green party hacks, on the left-wing scale). I don’t support much of her politics because she is more like Pat Buchanan than Ronald Reagan. But from what I gauge of Britons’ cold-shouldering of Mark Steyn’s articles when compared with Australian reactions to his writings, I guess she will find herself very, very lonely when in Britain.
It will be a miracle if she finds herself she hasn’t been assaulted by some Guardian-reading hacks in, say, 18 months’ time. And these Guardian-reading hacks would all have British-sounding lastnames and just as “white” as her.
Actually, most ordinary Britons despise Guardianista politics and political correctness, it is just that PC idiocy is more entrenched in our political elite, and is therefore more influential than it perhaps might be in certain other countries....
>>>”From what little I know about British politics, Hanson will find that she has dropped out of the frying pan, and only finding herself landing onto the naked fire. She will find the average Britons really way more left-wing than the Australian counterparts”
Yup. That’d be my guess too. Even in Manchester.
Btw, Pauline Hanson and her “One Nation Party” in their heydays (late 1990’s) were against immigrants from South East Asia (not necessarily muslims). Muslims at the time, in mainstream Australia, were not perceived as a big threat. Since 2001 the landscape has dramatically shifted to focus primarily on muslims.
I’ve an inkling Nick Griffin of Britain’s BNP would welcome her. Hasn’t he already?
I have probably frequented far too much of sites like www.britishhongkong.com , and it is full of Britons who are full of praise of the EU and the UK Guardian.
How many of them actually live in Britain and how many are misty-eyed ex-pats wallowing on how awesome Britain is whilst safely ensconced abroad?
A whole lot of them are anti-Chinese Communist Hongkongers - British nationals who were born in British Hong Kong, but have no British Citizenship due to British colonial-era nationality laws, and which China recognizes them as its citizens as well. The goal of the site is to campaign for restoration of full BC-status for Hongkongers born in Hong Kong during British colonial-era, and neither particularly pro-EU or whatever. (For example, I support that goal, although I’m no fan of the EU myself)
A couple are Britons who are sympathetic to the full BC-status restoration there, but again they are not particularly political on other areas.
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