Pauline Hanson’s Far-Right takes flight thanks to billionaire backers

A lot of time and money is being invested in Australia’s far right, and much of it comes from supporters with deep pockets — Deep enough to buy Pauline Hanson a sexy new plane, writes Tom Tanuki.

‘Australia Marches’ organizer Scott Challen I was hoping the post-Anzac Day rally in Canberra would be a success again Convoy to Canberra Thousands of people are flocking to Parliament to voice their support for ‘net-negative immigration’ (read: mass deportation).

They had just organized January 26 March In Brisbane, in an effort to recast their beloved national day as grievance day – that is, to call for ‘net-negative immigration’ (read: mass deportation). Their intention, then, was to rob some of the courage of Anzac Day in order to achieve similar average success.

One ABC The interviewer asked Scott some questions that I think they mostly didn’t bother to post. Their first questions:

“Do you think the majority of Australians agree with your ‘net-negative immigration’ agenda?”

Scott’s answer:

“Who cares? I don’t care if they agree with it or not. They will eventually.”

I think that optimistic, cavalier attitude works very well for a Far Right political campaign when you do a really good job. When you’re not, it makes you seem a bit delusional.

Australia’s mainstream media in print, digital and broadcast, which are largely owned by News Corp and Nine Entertainment, have noted in several recent polls that One Nation has stolen a fair share of the votes from the dismally unpopular Coalition.

This poll only signaled a break on the right, leaving the country’s current real majority consensus intact and leaving Labor ahead by a wide margin. Yet we are bombarded with stories about the great rise of One Nation’s cabal of immortal populist charlatans.

Then we learned that they everything wasn’t so goodand that was less popular news. All he says is that they have support. volatile – There is no doubt that voting support for One Nation is growing rose since the last election. So why do we stay so quiet when their energy fluctuates?

Maybe we’re too busy documenting the truth Gina Rinehart purchased Pauline Hanson a plane.

It’s a silver Cirrus G7whatever that means and it looks like some rich guy bought it because he did.

Pauline said about X:

“I have a new plane. Yes, I’m very happy. Yes, it’s fast. Yes, it’s gorgeous. Yes, it’ll disturb the Guardian. Yes, it’s sexy.”

Pauline also took time to showcase the $2 million in donations she has received, nearly half of which came from employees of Rinehart companies. This was after it was discovered that Hanson had “forgotten” to make a statement. gift series from your best friend.

Naturally, Gina is leaning heavily on Hanson’s far-right populism, hoping to stem the rise of left-wing populism in Australia; This is leading to calls to tax the mining and gas sector based on its overwhelming profits. This is worth a plane.

But when Hanson floundered in volatile polls, which suggested he was actually just grabbing the already failing Coalition vote, what’s a plane to do? To me, this makes him seem arrogant and delusional. It’s like someone who can’t pay his mortgage and shows off his rented Lamborghini.

Where has the energy of the Australian radical right gone? He didn’t run away here Ben Roberts-Smithfor all the hype and endless social media commentary surrounding the latest murder charge.

A rally organized by neo-Nazi group the National Labor Alliance in Melbourne’s CBD last Sunday was expected to explode in attendance if Facebook comments sections dominated. (According to the neo-Nazi group leader, they had originally planned this before Ben’s bail hearing, but postponed it at the family’s request) Matt Trihey).

Participation did not explode. There were between 100 and 200 people. Most of them were masked former members National Socialist Network. Bystanders booed the neo-Nazis from the footpath. Australian described in various shapes “flop” and a “fizzer” In print and digital.

Similarly, several hundred people attended Scott Challen’s Australia Walks event.

‘Australian Marches’ are a well-oiled and generously funded break band. They departed from the unsuccessful March on Australia, which was ostensibly organized along the twin fault lines of support for the now-defunct National Socialist Network and the archipelago of Australian Far Right political parties. (Scott wanted to get away from the first and get closer to the second.)

They paid for huge flags laid out on the huge lawn in front of Parliament; a pair of flags covered almost the entire area. They even distributed thousands of flags to be distributed to each participant. The cost of this incident was very high.

I guess you will be asked by ABC Explaining why the interviewer fizzled and gushed, Scott started the conversation by addressing the elephant in the room:

“There were a lot of people. And of course we put 4,000 flags on the ground, which represented 4,000 people who either couldn’t afford to come here or couldn’t make it because of the distance from the interstates. And let’s face it, fuel costs over the last few weeks have screwed everyone.”

What else happened there? Not much.

someone sang ‘Great Southern Land’. And Pauline Hanson, Matt Canavan And Bob Katter As Scott bounced around in front of the crowd, he spoke to the small congregation through an incredible speaker system fit to entertain 4,000 invisible people. During Pauline’s speech, one of the cooks shouted at her that she needed to get rid of her chemical traces.

White nationalist academic Dr. Stephen Chavura He was wearing an Australian flag tank top and playing the guitar, which looked a bit like a personal crisis. Far Right Church of Destiny Members flew in to perform the haka. They then immersed Scott in a large tub of water to baptize him for some reason.

You can feel the excess dripping from events like this. And when they fail, it’s a bit like this: buying aircraft for a small batch that don’t perform as well as they were hyped to do.

A lot of time and money is being invested in Australia’s Far Right, and much of that money comes from supporters with deep pockets. But when all else fails and they suddenly run out of energy, do we spend as much time acknowledging their decline as we do breathlessly warning everyone of their rise?

Tom Tanuki is an IA columnist, author, satirist and anti-fascist activist whose weekly videos commenting on Australia’s political wing are published on: YouTube. You can follow him on Twitter/X @tom_tanuki.

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