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

It was 28 years ago yesterday that I made my first speech in this building as the member for Oxley. It was eight years ago today that I made my first speech in the Senate. It would be an understatement to say these speeches caused a bit of a stir. For daring to say things that needed to be said, I was hounded by the media and the political class of this country and called all sorts of ridiculous names. I called out immigration, political Islam, multiculturalism, equality for all Australians, the Aboriginal industry and abolishing ATSIC.

ATSIC was abolished. However, the Aboriginal industry still fails to deliver real outcomes, while wallowing in corruption, nepotism and victimhood.

Different cultures represented by various immigrants to this country are in conflict, not just with each other but with Australian values. We're seeing that in Melbourne today, where more than a thousand police officers are facing down a large number of violent thugs echoing the antisemitic propaganda of the Islamic terrorist group Hamas.

Record immigration under Labor is, without any doubt, the main driver of Australia's housing crisis. Australians are facing homelessness and mortgage stress while hordes of new arrivals and foreign students take up available housing and rentals. Leaders, politicians and commentators in Australian and across the Western world are now saying the same thing: multiculturalism is a failure and high immigration is harmful.

In 2016 I was the first to oppose the Voice. Again, this proved to be in step with the majority of Australians.

How did COVID work out for the millions of Australians who lost their jobs, and lives, and who now face a range of vaccine-related health problems? I want people not to put this shit into their bodies.

I have been called far right, but, in fact—