Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

To the chair: you see, they can't handle it. They can't handle seeing someone on the floor of parliament, with integrity and with honesty, who actually says it the way they see it and not through the grubby deals that they do with their union mates who are actually doing this. You know that this is a good deal for the media reform that's needed in this country. You know that Channel 7, Channel 10 and Channel 9 are actually struggling. You know that media outlets and also publishers—small publishers—and newspapers are shutting down. They can't compete with the internet and they can't compete with Google, and that is why they're closing down. You don't care about that. You don't care about the jobs that are going to be lost with this. Through the chair: have you taken any notice? I can tell you, a lot of journalists aren't my friends, but the whole fact is that they are Australians in employment; they have their jobs and they are losing their jobs.

Senator Hanson-Young interjecting—

Here we have the Labor Party, who are supposed to be so job orientated—

Senator Hanson-Young interjecting—

batting for the workers and wanting to see jobs for Australians. I have never seen a political party such as the Labor Party in all my life. They are not interested—

Senator Hanson-Young interjecting—