Recent polling has shown her party One Nation have pulled ahead of both Labor and the Coalition in popularity, largely thanks to her penchant for making sweeping and often inaccurate statements scapegoating minorities for the real crises at play in modern Australia.
Like most of Hanson’s stunts, it has garnered a lot of media attention. That’s both good and bad — good because it’s important to know what Hanson is espousing, but bad because it gives her the notoriety and airtime she so clearly seeks.
Here, we combat that approach by fact-checking her speech and debunking a handful of the incorrect claims she made throughout it.
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Fact-checking Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club speech
in Q NewsAustralian Christian Lobby spread transphobia in election letter drop
in Q NewsThe Australian Christian Lobby has sent an election mail out in Victoria, spreading transphobia and trying to discredit The Greens.
Residents of the City of Yarra and Moreland City Councils contacted QNews after they received transphobic election material.
It arrived in their letterbox the day after Trans Day of Visibility.
The pamphlet from the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) was titled: “Male and Female Matter”.
It states that the Greens are “experimenting with biology at your expense”.
“Male and female matter, The Greens don’t agree,” the pamphlet read.
Siting that “while you wait for urgent medical care, The Greens want to use your tax dollars for free gender transition surgeries”.
The pamphlet also says that the Greens wish to put more gender clinics in hospitals while emergency departments are in crisis.