Idiotic Trumpist populism has arrived in Australia with One Nation’s Pauline Hanson leading the polls for preferred PM. GetUp on billionaire- and Rightist media-backed Hanson: “Time and time again, when given the opportunity to stand up for the everyday Australians she claims to represent, she sells us out. She’s opposed wage rises, affordable childcare, higher pensions and affordable housing measures.”
Hanson’s National Press Club speech singled out many targets for offensive One Nation hostility: workers, child-care, Muslims, Chinese, non-Judaeo-Christians, migrants, transgender people, multiculturalism, non-English speakers, Indigenous Australians, climate change action, science, sustainability, environment protection, renewable energy , “too many abortions,” The Guardian, SBS, the ABC, the Greens.
Hanson’s beef about the 51% of Australians having a parent born overseas targets me, my late wife, my children, my grandchildren and possibly most of any great grandchildren. However One Nation is united in a “Racist Unity Ticket” (RUT) with Labor, Teal, Liberal and National politicians in fervent support for genocidally racist Zionism, Apartheid Israel (and hence for intolerable Apartheid), lying for Apartheid Israel in 35 ways, and complicity in the Gaza Genocide in 20 ways (875,000 Gazan deaths from violence and deprivation in 2 years, mostly women and children).