Lambie pleads with voters to reject ‘dangerous’ and ‘delusional’ Hanson
Sarah Basford Canales
Jacqui Lambie has warned Australians not to support a “dangerous” and “delusional” Pauline Hanson, drawing comparisons between the One Nation leader and controversial international leaders.
In a speech during adjournment last night in the Senate, the Tasmanian senator said she had received a stream of abuse after her impassioned defence of Andrew Hastie after he was repeatedly labelled a “traitor” in One Nation’s cartoon series.
Lambie said:
One Nation whips up the anger and they tell people who to blame. That’s the populist trick … It’s a trick Australia, and we’ve got to wake up to it. Because every time a populist leader, like Trump or Farage, get any power, the lives of working people don’t get better. They get worse.
The outspoken senator criticised Donald Trump’s potential forever war with Iran while singling out Hanson’s support of his actions.
You’d put [Australian soldiers] back in another American forever war? [Hanson] is not only dangerous, she’s delusional!
Lambie said figures such as Trump and Nigel Farage were great at telling people they would fight for them while doing the opposite.
Senator Hanson will be fine in her retirement, as will Nigel and Donald in theirs, because once again they are feathering their own nests … Australia can choose not to follow the ugly politics of populism, we can do better because we bloody are better.
And it’s not about right or left, it’s about respect and finding solutions, and not operating from a place of fear – whatever side you’re on.
Key events
NSW One Nation leader fronts rally opposing ‘abortion to birth’
Caitlin Cassidy
The head of One Nation in New South Wales has fronted a rally opposing “abortion up to birth” ahead of an expected vote in the upper house on Libertarian member John Ruddick’s bill to ban “sex-selective abortions” during private member’s business today.
Mike Newman appeared alongside members of fringe parties outside the state’s parliament house on Tuesday evening, where he claimed One Nation wanted to “stop” abortion rights. Stumbling upon his words, he told the crowd:
We want to stop it. We want to make sure that same-sex-, sorry, abortion is stopped. We want to make sure that people have the right to life, and we will vote for you in favour of that.
Debate on Ruddick’s bill was adjourned in the June sitting week, and is expected to be decided via a conscience vote. Labor and opposition sources said the vote was expected to be close, or for support for Ruddick’s bill to fall slightly short.
The event follows another anti-abortion rally in June, attended by One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce, where he piled pressure on Nationals MPs to vote on favour of the bill.
Some members were expected to be absent for today’s vote, including Shooters, Farmers and Fishers MLC Robert Borsak, who spoke in favour of the bill in June. A senior Liberal source said that without members including Borsak, there did not appear to be “any room or margin” which could deliver Ruddick’s bill.
Caitlin Cassidy
Richard Marles was also asked about Aukus, and whether he was concerned about reports from the UK which indicated the Labour government was delaying its decision about begginning building the boats by two years to ۲۰۲۸.
He said there was “no change” on Australia’s end in terms of the UK’s position and rejected that they were “red flags”.
The ultimate number of submarines is not the key issue here, the key issue is the development of the design, the pace of that which is happening.
The UK is on track to cut steel in respect of its first SSN Aukus submarine next year. It’s on track to have that submarine come off the production line in the UK in the late ۲۰۳۰s. That’s perfect timing in respect of what we’re doing … We are really comfortable with what is happening there.
Caitlin Cassidy
The deputy prime minister, Richard Marles, says he is “comforted” by a recent essay from the boss of artificial intelligence company Anthropic which warned his industry must slow the pace in developing AI systems.
Appearing on ABC’s ۷.۳۰ program on Tuesday evening, Marles was asked about Dario Amodei’s comments urging governments to press pause on the AI revolution.
He replied:
I actually take comfort in Dario Amodei’s essay and the call he’s made … It’s firstly not about … stopping this all together but rather making sure that the development of the safeguards that are in place in respect of this technology is in front of the technological capability itself …
The technology is being developed very quickly, and … from an Australian point of view, our focus is making sure that in seeing this as a revolutionary technology which can be doing so much good in Australia that, we do have in place … AI safeguards in Australia which make sure that this is a technology which is benefit Australians and not the other way around.
Lambie pleads with voters to reject ‘dangerous’ and ‘delusional’ Hanson
Sarah Basford Canales
Jacqui Lambie has warned Australians not to support a “dangerous” and “delusional” Pauline Hanson, drawing comparisons between the One Nation leader and controversial international leaders.
In a speech during adjournment last night in the Senate, the Tasmanian senator said she had received a stream of abuse after her impassioned defence of Andrew Hastie after he was repeatedly labelled a “traitor” in One Nation’s cartoon series.
Lambie said:
One Nation whips up the anger and they tell people who to blame. That’s the populist trick … It’s a trick Australia, and we’ve got to wake up to it. Because every time a populist leader, like Trump or Farage, get any power, the lives of working people don’t get better. They get worse.
The outspoken senator criticised Donald Trump’s potential forever war with Iran while singling out Hanson’s support of his actions.
You’d put [Australian soldiers] back in another American forever war? [Hanson] is not only dangerous, she’s delusional!
Lambie said figures such as Trump and Nigel Farage were great at telling people they would fight for them while doing the opposite.
Senator Hanson will be fine in her retirement, as will Nigel and Donald in theirs, because once again they are feathering their own nests … Australia can choose not to follow the ugly politics of populism, we can do better because we bloody are better.
And it’s not about right or left, it’s about respect and finding solutions, and not operating from a place of fear – whatever side you’re on.
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Jacqui Lambie has launched a fiery attack on Pauline Hanson, urging Australians not to support the “dangerous” and “delusional” One Nation leader. More coming up.
