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Far-right senator Pauline Hanson is reportedly rather chuffed today, after not seeing a burkha since she needed to visit Moorooka to get her car washed in January.
Aside for a couple comments last week in which she demanded the government stop giving JobSeeker payments to people who didn’t have jobs to begin with, Hanson has made absolutely zero contribution to public debate for months.
Because of this, there has never been a more productive time in Australian politics.
In fact, Hanson has not been heard from since the start of the unprecedented bushfire season in September last year, after both she and the Australian public kind of acknowledged that disasters and government responses to disasters really should be managed by people who have slightly more credentials than a former Ipswich fishmonger’s wife.
While its not surprising that the usual racism and white fragility peddled by One Nation is not getting a look-in with the bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic dominating the news cycle – many Queenslanders are surprised that Pauline Hanson hasn’t jumped right onto the ‘freedom debate’ now at the centre of the culture wars.
However, it seems that Pauline Hanson is completely unaware of the drastic economic and environmental woes faced by Australians, as someone who only gets her news from Sky News and the middle pages of the Courier Mail.
Speaking to the media today, Pauline Hanson appeared chuffed with herself after noticing a drastic drop in Muslims on the streets.
“I think my work here is done” she says.
“The only people I see in town are the cops and a couple construction workers. This is the Australia I want to live in. No Indian restaurants, no Vietnamese nail salons… No immigrants anywhere!”
While Pauline admits she probably wouldn’t be able to tell if she saw a burkha in the street with this new trend of white people wearing masks as well, the visible lack of multiculturalism in the streets of her hometown gives her a warm fuzzy feeling.
“We’ve done it!” she says.
“I don’t why everyone is worried about a rise in unemployment. Theres barely anyone left to take our jobs!”
According to their own polls that come from surveys of skinheads that gave them their details at those anti-Islam rallies back in 2016, One Nation appears to be preparing to pick up over 13 seats in the upcoming Queensland election.
