PAULINE! FROM ON TO PHON AND THEN BACK TO ON!

It has long been my habit to highlight and copy documents I find interesting on the Internet, and then file them into various Word files. One such file I have entitled 'Ratbags Right' and it is about to receive its first consignment courtesy of Prime-Minister-in-waiting Pauline Hanson. (Because I am a liberal and a Centrist these days, I have another file called 'Ratbags Left.' I will leave it to you, dear reader, to guess which hold the most documents. Might even run a competition along those lines some time down the track. But this blog is devoted to our dear Pauline, who has had a party first called 'One Nation,' then 'Pauline Hanson's One Nation,' then due perhaps to internal strife generated by that self-obsessed title, back to 'One Nation.' Hence the title of this Google blog (from Google Blogger.) I also maintain that one can get a far better idea of how any given party will perform in office from a study of its own internal life than from the propaganda it releases to the public, bearing in mind all the while the ever-changing nature of all parties. [AS EDITED FOR POSTING ON MY NEW AND MOST DEDICATED BLOG: PAULINE! FROM ON TO PHON AND THEN BACK TO ON! HANSON’S FULL SPEECH CAN BE FOUND AT https://thenightly.com.au/politics/pauline-hansons-full-speech-at-the-national-press-club--c-22444111#:~:text=Pauline%20Hanson's%20full%20speech,to%20whom%20I%20am%20accountable EXTRACTS ONLY HERE FROM THAT SPEECH, AND FOR THE PURPOSE OF PUBLISHING MY OWN CRITICAL COMMENTS, IN BOLD TYPE AND SQUARE BRACKETS – IAN MACDOUGALL.] PAULINE HANSON: I am elected to represent the concerns of the people of Queensland. I am also the leader of a political party, One Nation. So, I have a responsibility to the wider Australian electorate. My overriding concern and that of the people I talk to, is that politicians today are good at talking but not listening; they will do anything to get your vote but when that has been achieved, the voter is ignored. The public are sick and tired of being ignored. So, what has happened in recent times, when I have listened? Well, I’ll tell you what the issues are – firstly, immigration and housing. My Party is rightly called One Nation. [ORIGINALLY ON, THEN PHON, THEN BACK TO ON; DANCING THE LIGHT PHONTASTIC, WE MIGHT SAY. - IM] It is clear what we stand for, One Nation under one flag and proudly Australian. We oppose entirely people coming into this country and bringing with them the troubles they have left behind; coming to this country and ignoring our values, our language, our traditions, our dress and the fact that we are predominately a Judeo-Christian society. It’s time we woke up. Western civilisation and its values are under siege. The people to whom I speak are fed up with hate preachers in some Sydney mosques. [IT WAS ISLAMISTS WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE BONDI MASSACRE, AND A MUSLIM WHOSE HUMANITY TOOK PRECEDENCE OVER CERTAIN PASSAGES IN HIS HOLY BOOK, WHO STEPPED IN TO STOP THEM. OR IS THAT DISTINCTION BEYOND YOU? - IM] Thousands of Australians are seeking this help every day. Organisations like the Salvos are so overwhelmed with demand they’re having to turn people away. Of the 4,400 people surveyed: • 19 per cent said they’d eaten food from rubbish bins in the past 12 months; • 60 per cent said they’d eaten expired or spoiled food; • 91 per cent said they had skipped meals and 32 per cent said they do so on a daily basis; • 35 per cent said they survived on only one meal a day; • 67 per cent said they watered down food and drinks to make them last longer; • 35 per cent of parents said their children had gone to school hungry; • 59 per cent said their children had missed school because they couldn’t afford the transport costs; • 84 per cent said they went to bed early to keep warm; Where’s Peanut Bowen? Where is he with his reliable energy? What is that doing for our age, for our pensioners, those people that can’t afford to pay their electricity costs? • 63 per cent said they used candles and torches for lighting their homes; • 49 per cent said they go to public places like shopping centres to keep warm or cool; • 51 per cent can’t afford a doctor, dentist or optometrist; and • 46 per cent can’t afford prescription medicine. This is unacceptable to me and my Party. As I will explain later, the Government’s energy policy, which One Nation will dismantle, feeds problems such as these. Everything is unbearably dearer. Oz-Harvest’s annual Frontline Report this year showed about 350,000 Australians were seeking food relief each month – more than two thirds of them are families. Charities report having to turn away 74,000 people each month, and every charity reports increasing demand. About 36 per cent of people seeking relief are doing so for the first time. Almost a third of households needing relief had at least one employed person. What kind of Australia have we become? These figures are appalling and totally un-Australian for a rich country such as ours. Put bluntly, these figures derive because of one policy, above all others, the hoax of global warming which is now climate change. [REPEAT: Put bluntly, these figures derive because of one policy, above all others, the hoax of global warming which is now climate change. HOAX!!!!???? PROVE IT.! YOU WILL BE OPPOSING 198 SCIENTIFIC ORGANISATIONS WORLDWIDE. (SEE https://royalsociety.org/news-resources/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/basics-of-climate-change/ ) INCLUDING BRITAIN’S ROYAL SOCIETY, THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE, AND AUSTRALIA’S OWN CSIRO.) ANYWAY, THAT MEANS THAT THE LAWS OF NATURE VARY ACCORDING TO THE PASSING NEEDS OF POLITICIANS LIKE HANSON AND PARTIES LIKE ON-PHON-ON. YOU COULD USE THAT TO GET WATER TO FLOW UPHILL. AND BELIEVE ME, THERE WOULD BE POTS OF GOLD IN THAT !!!!! - IM] It has produced an increase in energy costs which has taken Australia into energy poverty. The Albanese Government itself is proof of what I am saying. Remember, when first campaigning to be elected, the Albanese Government said it would reduce power bills by $275. Surely the slogan, “Fire the Liar” has relevance to millions of Australians. Was it a lie to campaign in 2022 on the slogan “A better future”? Is this how Australians feel today? The cost of energy feeds into everything we use, we eat, we manufacture, everything. So, food is dearer, housing is dearer, rents are dearer, there is your cost of living crisis. Albanese lied to become elected, and Australians are paying for it. How many times were you, the media, condemned for simply asking before the last election whether a Labor Government would make changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing? Didn’t they lie to the electorate? I am meant to be a voice for that electorate. The public are sick to the back teeth with these lies. When the Prime Minister was delivering a speech to miners in the coal mining region of NSW, the Hunter Valley, in the 2025 election campaign, did he fall off the stage and deny it? Let me be blunt, if you lie once, why won’t you lie again and again and again? Let me come back to energy, the central source of national poverty. Amos Hochstein was the special coordinator for energy security during the Biden Administration. Recently, he said of renewables, quote “Renewables don’t compete with oil. They don’t supply solutions to aviation. We rely on more shipping that doesn’t run on renewables. Yes, we should invest more in renewables but that won’t solve this crisis anytime soon... the inside of an electric vehicle is still made of plastic that is made from fuel and petroleum... our hospitals are made entirely from petroleum, our masks, our syringes, MRI machines, CT Scans, all need helium which comes from natural gas.” - End quote. [WHICH IS WHY THOSE ORGANIC MOLECULES ARE SUCH A VALUABLE RESOURCE, AND SHOULD NOT BE BURNED UP FOR THE SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL INTEREST OF THE FOSSIL-CARBON BARONS WHO HAVE GOT THEMSELVES OWNERSHIP RIGHTS TO THEM. -IM] Because individuals and businesses are suffering from this net zero nonsense, the government shovels out millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money just to justify their failing energy policy. Let me make no apology. One Nation will end this renewable energy bribery – grants, tax incentives, concessional finance, even the government underwriting anything that sponsors the whole net zero hoax. Let me give you one example amongst many. Rewiring the nation to build useless transmission lines and destroy prime agricultural land, billions of taxpayer dollars. This will end. [IS THAT SO? TRANSMISSION LINES WILL HAVE TO BE BUILT TO CARRY THE POWER FROM YOUR BELOVED NUCLEAR POWER STATION JUST DOWN THE STREET FROM YOUR OWN HOME IN IPSWICH, OR ARE YOU A NIMBY IN THAT REGARD? -IM] One Nation will always protect prime agricultural land. It belongs to farmers, not government transmission lines. Let me give you another example. The bloke in the corner store is productive. Does he get subsidies? I speak to struggling farmers everywhere; do they get subsidies? Does the young 25-year-old going out on his own starting up a business, does he get subsidies? But no, community batteries, solar banks, regional renewable projects, it’s impossible to keep track of all these taxpayer subsidies. [DO COAL AND OIL GET SUBSIDIES? YES.! YOU BET THEY DO! AND A HELLUVALOT MORE THAN RENEWABLES. GOOGLE UP - SUBSIDIES FOR RENEWABLES IN AUSTRALIA COMPARED WITH FOSSIL CARBON - AND AI WILL TELL YOU: “Australian government support for fossil fuels vastly outweighs direct subsidies for renewables. While renewable energy targets substantial capital injections to transition the grid, fossil carbon receives billions more annually through systemic, long-standing tax exemptions.” -IM] The Government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation provides tens of billions of dollars for renewable projects, of course, at favourable rates. This is a rort. [NO, PAULINE: IT IS PURE IF NOT DELIBERATE IGNORANCE ON YOUR PART. - SEE BELOW. - IM] Renewable energy projects benefit from cheaper finance than the market would offer. Are those benefits available to the bloke in the corner store? The small businessman in the suburbs? The businesses that keep regional towns in Australia alive? Do they get financed at favourable rates? But this outfit, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation has received over $200 billion dollars of taxpayers’ money, $200 thousand million dollars of taxpayers’ money. I am not opposed to renewable energy, but if it’s the saviour of the energy crisis, and if it’s profitable, why would Government have to prop it up? [GOOD QUESTION, PARTICULARLY RE FOSSIL-CARBON, WHICH I DARE SAY HAS BEEN SUBSIDISED SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION BEGAN AROUND THE YEAR 1750.] One Nation is saying, put everything into the energy mix. Let everyone share the wealth that is under our feet. We are one of the richest resource nations in the world. I am saying get ideology out of the way. Let me just add that it’s clear that the hydrogen energy solution is blowing up in Australia’s face or should I say, Andrew Forrest’s face. But we still have, here we go again, taxpayer subsidies, a hydrogen head start program, $4 billion in four Budgets and the Prime Minister has announced $520 million of your money for green hydrogen projects outside the head start program. And what about Malcolm Turnbull’s $2 billion Snowy 2 point zero project? He calls himself a businessman but showed no regard for taxpayers’ money; the $2 billion is now forecast to reach over $40 billion. Cancel it. Cut our losses. [PERHAPS PH SHOULD GOOGLE ROUND A BIT SEARCHING THE SUBJECT OF SUBSIDIES FOR FOSSIL FUEL. COULD TURN UP SOMETHING LIKE https://energyfactcheck.com.au/2025/04/22/do-renewable-energy-projects-get-more-government-subsidies-than-other-energy-projects/ WHERE WE FIND: “These subsidies, both explicit and implicit, are critical in sustaining fossil fuel industries despite growing pressures for decarbonisation. “Again, comparing the two industries side-by-side isn’t straightforward, as the contexts and stages of development differ. However, what’s clear is that both sectors enjoy substantial government backing, with renewable energy still playing catch-up in terms of long-term, sustained support relative to the mature fossil fuel industry. “] Governments have no money of their own other than what they take from taxpayers. The Snowy Hydro 2 point zero is nothing more than a blackhole of debt for taxpayers. Before the South Australian election, One Nation argued, quote “Australia’s fuel shock exposes energy insecurity... Australia’s energy sector is finally catching up to what One Nation has been saying for years: We need a secure, reliable energy future. Every leap forward in human progress has come from mastering energy, from fire to steam, from coal to oil, each step has powered stronger economies, lifted people out of poverty and secured our future. Energy isn’t a luxury. It is the backbone of prosperity. Get it wrong and everything else suffers. Get it right and the nation thrives.” - End quote. Therefore, moving forward, One Nation will introduce nuclear energy. Let me be plain and clear. Our energy crisis is a product of failed energy policy; and this policy was supported years ago by major political parties and the big media giants. I have always opposed it. Ford and Holden closed their factories more than a decade ago, for one simple reason, the cost of production. The source of much of our wealth is under our feet and should not be only for export. Of course, basic environmental standards must be met, but they can’t be allowed to throttle our economy. We will never be able to do without coal and gas. [ADD: EVEN IF IT COOKS THE PLANET, OR TURNS IT RADIOACTIVE, AS CHERNOBYL WILL BE FOR THE NEXT 250,000 OR SO YEARS. ANYWAY, AS YOU SAID ABOVE PAULINE, THE FOSSIL-CARBON IS NECESSARY FOR THE UBIQUITOUS PLASTICS, FOR STEEL-MAKING, AND I SHOULD ADD, SYNTHETIC RUBBER FOR TYRES AND TAR-SEALING FOR THE ROADS. THE LAST THING WE SHOULD BE DOING IS BURNING UP THOSE BIG ORGANIC MOLECULES FOR ELECTRICITY GENERATION WHEN OTHER POWER SOURCES ARE AVAILABLE, AND CHEAPER TOO. EG, SOLAR PLUS WINDMILLS, PLUS TIDAL POWER, PLUS GEOTHERMAL, PLUS PUMPED HYDRO AND BATTERIES FOR STORAGE WHEN THE SUN AIN’T SHININ’ AND THE WIND AIN’T BLOWIN’. - IM] We should encourage the investment in them and provide power to homes and business, as we once did, at the world’s cheapest [SHORT-TERM - IM] price. Bowen said last March that households stood to claim savings of up to 10.1 per cent yet average electricity debt for customers on hardship programmes has jumped 22.8 per cent over the past year. These are Australian Energy Regulator figures. Gas hardship debt is up 22.2 per cent. This applies to households, small businesses, industry and manufacturing…. ************************ On April 21, 2006, Peter Costello declared the nation debt free. I have never been in Government. We have done our best in the Senate to curtail the irresponsibility of previous Governments and this Government. [PETER COSTELLO, IN HIS PROFOUND ARROGANCE, AND HIS OPEN CONTEMPT FOR ANY AND ALL OF HIS POLITICAL OPPONENTS, HAD LEFT PARLIAMENT BY THE TIME OF BOTH THE COVID SHUTDOWN AND THE MIDDLE-EAST OIL CRISIS. - IM] I have always argued against escalating debt. The difference between Albanese, Chalmers and me is that I actually ran a small business. They have earnt their income by working for Government, taking their salary from the taxpayer. [AS YOU INTEND TO, ON YOUR SUPER-GENEROUS AND NON-MEANS-TESTED PARLIAMENTARY PENSION RORT FOR THE REST OF YOUR DAYS.! OR HAVE YOU BEEN RUNNING YOUR FISH AND CHIPS SHOP ALL ALONG FROM YOUR SEAT IN THE SENATE? (COME TO THINK OF IT, THAT WOULD EXPLAIN A FAIR BIT.) - IM] ….. Let me just say what concerned voters know. Every attempt has been made for years to silence me. In fact, there are always some people, usually a lot of people, who get offended by what I say or do, even offended by my very existence. I don’t fear it. I embrace it. But many people aren’t like me. In Australia today, in our democracy, the real tragedy is people are frightened of what will happen to them if they just speak up. But now they are finding the courage to embrace One Nation. But what a national tragedy, indeed a disgrace, that many people feel afraid to make their views heard. As a result, civil debate is paralysed. [IS THAT SO.? YOU ARE ENGAGING IN IT, AND YOU HAVE BEEN DOING SO FOR A HELLUVA LONG TIME. - IM] And the media are complicit in amplifying this fear. Many people feel that they can’t indulge that essential Australian characteristic of speaking out and speaking up because the risk of speaking out is simply too great. They feel demonised and condescended. And they’re mad as hell about it. It’s as good an explanation as any for the earthquake that is changing the political landscape in Australia and other countries. That was the best outcome of the Voice to Parliament referendum. It showed that Australians were not prepared to let their country be taken away from them. This won’t happen if One Nation is given a say in Government. If I sound defiant, yes I am. Am I committed, you bet I am. In many respects, I haven’t changed and neither has One Nation. [SORRY; ‘ONE NATION’ IS NO LONGER ‘PAULINE HANSON’S ONE NATION.’ ‘ON’ IS NO LONGER ‘PHON.’ BUT COME TO THINK OF IT, THAT’S NOT A BAD SLOGAN. - IM] ************************ Finally, let me turn to the greatest economic and technical change since the industrial revolution, to this point ignored almost entirely by the Albanese Government. I refer of course to Artificial Intelligence. A.I bids to transform the global economy. It will affect everyone’s lives, including their daily lives, their relationships, indeed their environment. It has the potential to dramatically affect the lives of human beings the consequences of which may be still unknown. Therefore, AI [SHOULD NOT BE LIKE THE RESOURCES SECTOR AND] be left entirely to self-regulation [BY THE LIKES OF YOUR MATRON (AS IN FEMALE EQUIVALENT OF A PATRON) GINA RINEHART. - IM] ************************ Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome it. I’m an elected representative and I should be scrutinised. That doesn’t give you the licence to pile on. It doesn’t give you the licence to delegitimise my Party. It doesn’t give you the licence to say preferencing One Nation is immoral. It doesn’t give you the license to continue to repeat the lie that we are a racist Party - because that is untrue. The Australian people can make up their own mind. And they are. Rest assured, there will be big changes if One Nation is given the chance. The SBS will be gone. There’s no need for it anymore; the internet has overtaken the need for it. The ABC will still exist, but in a very different form. Taxpayers will still fund some of the ABC’s operations in regional, rural, and remote areas where there is a lack of commercial media. But in the cities which are already saturated with media outlets across the political spectrum… [ACROSS THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM???? WHEN YOU WANT TO SHUT DOWN ALL VOICES NOT OF THE HARD RIGHT????] the ABC will only be a subscription service. From its chairman down, the ABC has proven itself to be completely in denial about its profoundly transparent political bias and the activists in its ranks. Yet they think of themselves as a pillar of democracy. [ACTIVISTS??? – THERE’S A BOO-WORD, IF EVER THERE WAS ONE! PASSIVISTS ARE MUCH TO BE PREFERRED, SOAKING UP EVERY WORD THAT COMETH OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF THE MURDOCHRACY.! AND THE WOULD-BE PHONOCRACY.! - IM] The arrogance is stunning in its scope. It is partly for this reason I have – at times – refused ABC interviews. I will continue to do so because as media outlets go, the ABC is very low on my list of priorities and their bias against One Nation and me is obvious. Remember this: I don’t answer to the media. I answer to the Australian people. Australians’ trust in the media, the government and public institutions is at an all-time low. [DON’T WORRY. YOU WILL GET PLENTY OF AIR TIME FROM THE TALKING HEADS AT SKY NEWS. -IM.] To you, the media, may I offer some advice. You have to earn the trust of the Australian people. I am confident I can. Can the media say the same thing? Many see you as part of the problem. In some respects, they’re right. One Nation and its leadership [FROM ON TO PHON AND BACK AGAIN,] have one overriding ambition – to give this great country back its wealth which has been stolen from us by bad policy and arrogant policy misfits. I love this country. [CAREFUL NOW, CAREFUL. GINA COULD TAKE THAT THE WRONG WAY, AS COULD THAT TRUMPETEER OF PATRIOTS, MINING MAGNATE CLIVE PALMER.!!!! -IM] I’m a patriot, and an unashamed nationalist. I will always put Australia and Australians first. One Nation will do its best to change this country’s direction; to re-assert its values; to honour its traditions; to reinforce that we are one nation under one flag; and my Party will put Australia back on the path to prosperity, security, independence and freedom. One Nation will do everything to help take this country back for its people. At the moment, government of this country has become a victim of the ideology of people who have failed you in the past and will fail you again. Thank you for the invitation to be with you today. [NOT IF YOU, ACCIDENTALLY OR OTHERWISE, HELP TAKE THIS COUNTRY’S GINI COEFFICIENT, A METHOD OF RANKING COUNTRIES BY INCOME INEQUALITY, THROUGH THE ROOF. SEE https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/gini-coefficient-by-country TO CONCLUDE, I QUOTE THE IMMORTAL BARD: “SO HAVE I HEARD AND DO IN PART BELIEVE IT.” - HORATIO IN WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, HAMLET, ACT 1, SC 1. I AGREE WITH SOME OF YOUR STUFF, PAULINE, AND I LEAVE IT TO YOU TO GUESS WHAT BITS. (I WAS IN THAT VAST MAJORITY THAT VOTED AGAINST THE VOICE, FOR EXAMPLE.) AND THOUGH YOU ARE NOT NOTED FOR BEING PERSUADED INTO CHANGING YOUR MIND ON ANYTHING, I STILL THINK THAT YOU WOULD MAKE A DAMNED GOOD MINISTER FOR FISH AND CHIPS IN ANY NEW FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. AND DO I RIGHT NOW NEED A GOOD OLD FAHIONED FEED OF ‘EM? YOU BET I DO.! AND WITH EXTRA LEMON! - IM]