Malcolm Turnbull’s strategic judgement has just delivered the balance of power to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation and what a motley crew they are.
This was not a win for democracy. In 2001 One Nation got over 5 per cent of the vote in the upper house, and won nothing. This time around they got 4.3 per cent, and have four very questionable people deciding the fate of the nation.
We all know Pauline so no need to explain any further about her.
Her Queensland colleague Malcolm Ieuan: Roberts has also made his presence felt, denying he is a sovereign citizen – he just likes to spell his name that way apparently. He is determined to expose the stupidity and cupidity (but not conspiracy because he’s no conspiracist) of the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology and all climate scientists and scientific bodies who are in cahoots with the UN to impose a New World Order for the benefit of a few Jewish bankers.
From Western Australia, we may have Senator Rod Culleton depending on the result of pending court proceedings over allegations he stole a $27,000 hire car last year. But never fear, his brother-in-law will stand in for him if he gets convicted.
And then we have the delightful Brian Burston from NSW. Pauline kicked him out of the party in 2000 but apparently she needed candidates so Brian and his twin brother both ran for One Nation this time.
Brian won a Senate seat with 184,012 votes (4.1%). Labor, with almost 8 times the number of votes (1,405,088 31.28%), won 4 seats.
From what I have seen so far, Senator Burston will be as useful as the other One Nation Senators.
“Islam is an infringement on our culture; we’re a Christian country, I know we have some Jews as well…but the Muslims, they kneel five times a day and it’s not how we are in this country.”
Despite never reading the Quran, Mr Burston described Islam as “a religion of hate”.
”There are no questions about that. The Catholic Church and Jewish people don’t go and blow people up and we’re bringing people here from Syria with those ideologies.”
“They’re coming, all of a sudden they’re out to be our best mates and then one day they just take over; they will introduce the Caliphate, they want a Caliphate here and it will happen one day.”
“You can’t have a beer, you can’t have a smile, the women have to be covered up like a tent; why do you think we have so much support… people are very worried and we want to protect our own people and make decisions that are for the good of Australia,” he said.
He said the decision to return to the One Nation brand from the United Australia Party had contributed to the success of the party this election.
And these people now have the power to make laws in this country.
Thanks, Malcolm.
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