{"id":1128,"date":"2017-09-13T21:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-13T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.womenrep.org\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2023-04-13T21:15:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T11:15:43","slug":"pauline-hanson-on-the-republic-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/?p=1128","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson on the Republic 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the Senate debate on the Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, we hear Pauline Hanson&#8217;s latest views on the Republic, &#8220;The ABC receives over $1 billion a year from the Australian taxpayer. We are not all left-wing bleeding hearts wanting to open our borders to illegals and refugees. We are not all supporters of gay marriage. We are not all supporters of corrupt unions and socialist agendas.\u00a0<strong>We are not all supporters of becoming a republic.<\/strong>\u00a0And we are definitely not all supporters of destroying our Australian identity, culture and way of life to continue the push for multiculturalism and forever saying sorry.&#8221; (direct quote from Senate Hansard).\u00a0Pleased to see that PHON has\u00a0republicans bracketed with progressive politics and causes.\u00a0WfaAR notes that\u00a0in the lead up to the 1999 referendum, Ms Hanson\u00a0was ambivalent about\u00a0a\u00a0Republic saying\u00a0it\u00a0wouldn&#8217;t do much to change ordinary\u00a0people&#8217;s\u00a0lives and there were higher priorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During the Senate debate on the Broadcasting Legislation Amendment (Broadcasting Reform) Bill 2017, we hear Pauline Hanson&#8217;s latest views on the Republic, &#8220;The ABC receives over $1 billion a year from the Australian taxpayer. We are not all left-wing bleeding&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15","wpcat-15-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1129,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions\/1129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/womenrep.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}