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One Nation has put key budget measures worth at least $5 billion in doubt as the minor party hardens its stance against the government’s agenda, declaring it will oppose almost all Coalition bills unless ABC funding is slashed.
As leaked recordings embroil One Nation leader Pauline Hanson in controversy and infuriate her senators and staff, party whip Brian Burston said One Nation would vote against budget items and major packages such as the media legislation changes.
Senator Burston, a critic of the ABC, said he and Senator Hanson developed the plan over dinner on Monday and finalised it yesterday.
He said One Nation would reject “all bills associated with the budget” and the media changes, if the broadcaster’s $1 billion a year funding was not cut by $600 million over the forward estimates. He blamed the broadcaster’s “unfair treatment” for the approach.
They may have finally got her by sending in a plant and getting her to operate as the Liberal Party does. If only Abbott had know it was so easy when he got her falsely imprisoned the first time round.She's f****, ON is stuffed.
Libs will love it because it will defer any analysis on their party infighting and policy issues and labor will love it because it will seem like they're taking the moral high ground.
Backed down after half a day.Will One Nation have the bottle to carry this out, or blink?
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/bus...n/news-story/47baa76b9d6c23afcdb0350a4063aa6a
I was alerted to Hanson's twitter feed following the London attacks.
...if people don't see what's wrong with this then they need to be smacked upside the head with a World War II history book.
Interesting logic. By the same token, Liberal supporters must be more educated because their leader is a lawyer/merchant banker.lol Greens voters on average are more educated. Their leader is a doctor ffs.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-...junction-to-stop-abc-using-recordings/8599988
This morning legal representatives for Senator Hanson lodged an injunction in the NSW Supreme Court seeking to stop the ABC from broadcasting more covert material.
Good to see free speech advocates like Pauline hard at work in the courts.
Interesting logic. By the same token, Liberal supporters must be more educated because their leader is a lawyer/merchant banker.
No, I mentioned their leader is a doctor because they're made out to be this loon of a party when they're not.
No, I mentioned their leader is a doctor because they're made out to be this loon of a party when they're not. The biggest problems I can see with them is that they conflate criticism of Islam with bigotry against Muslims, which it isn't (although some of the far-right dickheads don't help with the cause this misattribution). They would also likely have to raise income taxes and business taxes from top-down to fund what they want.
Anyway, Greens voters have a higher rate of university level educated voters than Labor/Liberal has.
That argument is worse then the origional one of greens voters are more intelligent because of the university degree's. Well done you double downed!University degrees make you less intelligent / more out of touch with the "real world". That must be at about 3 or 4 on the list of rules for Australian political debate.
Ashby's probably going to be pushed onto a sword, hope they've remembered the hush moneyIndependent Victorian senator Derryn Hinch says an “absolute bombshell” will be dropped shortly relating to One Nation.
“It’s not financial. Nobody’s quitting,” Senator Hinch told 3AW radio.
“It involves a staffer, not a senator.”
Asked if the public should care about the “bombshell, Senator Hinch said: “I think you will.”
Neil Mitchell: Is James Ashby doing something?
Hinch: Oh… umm… ah… Move on.
Neil: Is that a ‘No comment’?
Hinch: It’s a ‘No comment’. My first ‘No comment’ ever.
I wonder what this is about?