Ralph Babet (Victoria, United Australia Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Today I'd like to talk about Donald Trump's landslide victory. What did it prove? It proved once again that the influence of the legacy media is a thing of the past. Screw those guys. Nobody likes them. Mainstream media effectively campaigned for Kamala Harris, and they lost. Their influence is lost; it's dead, it's buried, it's cremated. If you thought this election was bad for the Democrats, it was more devastating for legacy media. The media gave their left-wing candidate 90 per cent positive press, but they still couldn't convince the majority of Americans to vote for her. They dismissed and demonised Donald Trump. Ninety per cent of what they said about him was negative.

Who cares what the mainstream media thinks? The public don't care about these people, the traditional gatekeepers of political discourse: TV networks and newspapers. They're not just dying; they're already dead. We no longer need the mainstream media to get our message to the masses. Social media, podcasts, live streaming—it all means that they're about as relevant as a VHS tape. They are a relic of a bygone era.

No wonder you all want to censor the internet. There are those in this place that are worried that those—in my opinion, the liars and the Marxists—in the mainstream media are being bypassed online. They are fighting a losing battle. And you know what? They know it. President Trump's win proves one thing: if we ignore the media and communicate directly to the masses, with strong commonsense policies, we will succeed. It's little wonder the mainstream media is snarkier than ever. It's little wonder the establishment is more frantic than ever. It is a great day for people like me. Your days are numbered, all of you.