Pauline Hanson

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20 Nov: Pauline Hanson re-visited – Australian media incite violence

Now that Pauline Hanson has re-entered the poltical fray, we have decided to re-print some articles from the time of her original entry into politics to remind Australians of one of the most disgraceful episodes in Australian political history, where sustained, vicious media attacks whipped up crowds of screaming demonstrators into intimidating and even physically attacking Pauline Hanson and her supporters.

Martin Lehmann – 21 July 1998
The media, after more than a year of the greatest vilification campaign in Australian history, have succeeded in dividing Australia like never before. They have joined forces with the politically correct academics and the multicultural and aboriginal industries in vilifying Pauline Hanson and all those who support her.

Violent mobs, whipped up by a vicious media onslaught, attack Hanson supporters

A man trying to enter the meeting is bashed to the ground by this brutish thug. Can anybody identify him or others in this raging mob?

On 7 July 1997 around 100 people trying to enter a One Nation meeting in the Melbourne suburb of Dandenong were confronted by about 1,000 screaming, jostling demonstrators. Many, like Keith Warburton who was bashed unconscious by three demonstrators, had come to find out for themselves what One Nation stood for.

“I’m just an individual without political leanings,” Warburton said after the attack from his Dandenong Hospital bed. “An attack like this is just not Australian, where we believe in freedom of speech.”

According to police, Warburton was bashed by three individuals, one punched him, the other grabbed him in a head-lock and the third kicked him. As he fell already unconscious, he hit his head on the curb.

On 19 July 1998 over 1500 violent protesters gathered outside the Hawthorn Town Hall to threaten and intimidate people trying to attend a One Nation meeting. Many elderly people fearing for their safety turned away.

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21 Nov: The political assassination of Pauline Hanson

Kerry Packer, Rupert Murdoch, Terry Sharples, Tony Abbott and Patsy Wolfe – these names will forever live in infamy in Australian politics as Pauline Hanson’s assassins. From the time Ms Hanson broke the journalists’ taboo on discussing Aboriginal welfare and Asian immigration the Packer and Murdoch journalists have attacked her with a savage, unrelenting fury. When the Liberal Party realised Ms Hanson threatened the comfortable duopoly of the major parties it despatched chief head-kicker, Tony Abbott to dig up the dirt on Pauline Hanson. Abbott found a co-conspirator in human termite, Terry Sharples. The Queensland establishment did the rest. Threats to democracy There is clear evidence that there have been two serious attacks on Australia’s democratic process in relation to the Pauline Hanson saga. The left-leaning, politically correct journalists of Packer, Murdoch, the ABC and SBS have quite clearly attacked and compromised the democratic process. Their vicious attacks…

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21 Nov: Archives: Murdoch media blitzes Hanson

Weekly round-up 5 July, 1998 Murdoch media blitzes Hanson Rupert Murdoch, one of the world’s richest and most powerful men, has ordered his editorial staff to use the full power of the Murdoch media empire to destroy Pauline Hanson and her fledgling One nation party. This is the only conclusion that any fair-minded person could reach after witnessing a week of the most disgusting abuse of media power ever in Australia. If you thought the Murdoch journos were digging the dirt on Ms Hanson last week, then this week they delivered it in truckloads. The Australian editorial staff went ballistic with their anti-Hanson crusade in the Tuesday June 30 edition. The front page headline screamed ‘Hanson’s nation hijacked’. Most of the front page quoted the bitter comments of one Barbara Hazleton, a disgruntled former secretary to Pauline Hanson. Not one word of balance or comment from One Nation. Never mind…

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21 Nov: Pauline Hanson: Press Council head slams media ‘feeding frenzy’

Media bias exposed in Hanson attacks The head of the Australian Press Council was forced to criticise the media over its anti-Hanson attacks, as reported in The West Australian on 27/10/97 : The media have gone into a “feeding frenzy” over Independent MP Pauline Hanson and were to blame for resulting damage to Australia‘s reputation, according to the head of the Australian Press Council. Professor David Flint, addressing the ninth conference of the Samuel Griffith Society in Perth yesterday, said such damage could not be blamed on politicians. “It was media indulging in its own fantasies, believing its own stories, which turned Ms Hanson into a spectre stalking the land,” he said. “Her message was presented in some quarters as if it were the voice of Satan. In fact, her views are more moderate than manyright-wing parties in Western Europe,” he said. Media create the “race debate” The media have…

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21 Nov: Pauline Hanson: Australian media a threat to democracy

Martin Lehmann – 1 February 2001 One million Australian voters were dis-enfranchised at the last Federal election due to blatant media interference in the democratic process. The One Nation party received one million votes but did not get one member elected in the House of Representatives. With the looming WA state election, the media has again demonstrated its dangerous control over the political process by threatening retaliation against any political party daring to do a preference swap with One Nation. How did such an undemocratic situation occur? When the power elites, comprising the two major political parties and the media barons, realised the One Nation party could pose a threat to their cosy oligarchy they set out to destroy the party and its leader, Pauline Hanson. The Murdoch press led the charge. In a disgraceful display it vilified Pauline Hanson at every turn. Other media outlets and journalists followed blindly…

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21 Nov: Pauline Hanson: Vicious media attacks frighten off politicians

John Howard conned by the media Martin Lehmann – 14 March 1999 John Howard is too weak to stand up to the media. Their anti-Hanson onslaught has reduced Howard to a quivering blob of media compliance. Howard’s weakness has allowed the media to hoodwink him into placing One Nation last on all Liberal how-to-vote cards. He has used considerable influence to get all Liberal branches to fall into line – often against their better judgement. Minor party preferences have played a significant role in Australian elections for decades. It greatly assists a major party to have a minor party with a philosophical alliance to capture the swinging voters and the protest votes and deliver them back via preferences. This has worked very well for the Labor Party in recent years. Preference votes of the Democrats and Greens have kept Labor in power even when their primary vote was less then…

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21 Nov: Analysis of Pauline Hanson’s maiden speech in federal parliament

Martin Lehmann – 8 September, 2003 This is the speech that drove the ruling elites and left-wing media into paroxysms of self-righteous fury. The Murdoch, Fairfax and Packer journalists, together with the politically correct zealots from the ABC and SBS seized on these words, twisted them into a parody of lies, deceit and slander to launch one of the most defamatory, vicious and scurrilous attacks on the character of a person ever seen in Australia. The journalists spewed out venomous propaganda reminiscent of Nazi Germany. And they followed the Nazi principle that no matter how big the lie, if you tell it often enough it will be believed. The lies they told were: 1) Hansom is anti-Aboriginal 2) Hanson is racist 3) Hanson is xenophobic 4) Hanson is a threat to Australia and to Australia’s reputation. Other journalists, in typical lazy journalistic fashion, uncritically repeated the lies until all journalists…