Pauline Hanson Calls Out Welcome to Country Sham By James Reed
Good to see Pauline calling out the Welcome to Country acknowledgment. I always have puzzled about the hypocrisy of this chest-thumping over-moralisation. If these woke folk are so guilt-ridden about having this country, how about giving up all of their stuff to the Aborigines, and going back to Europe? They could do it as refugees, being extra cool and woke then. Go by boats to be authentic. Yes, do it! But, of course these hypocrites will not; the system is too cozy.
“Pauline Hanson has angrily left the Senate chamber during the opening acknowledgement to country after dismissing its validity.
President Sue Lines acknowledged the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people as traditional custodians of the Canberra area and paid respect to elders past and present at the opening of Wednesday's sitting.
Senator Hanson interjected, yelling 'no, I won't and never will', before exiting the chamber.
The One Nation senator told AAP she could not accept the welcome to country or a proposal to be moved later in the day that would raise the indigenous flag in the Senate chamber.
'I've been feeling this way for a long time,' she said.
'I have called from the first day for equality for all Australians. I see this as divisive.'
She said if anyone needed acknowledgement it was 'our people that have fought for this country. People who have sacrificed their lives'.
Senator Hanson added the Indigenous flag had 'never been voted on' and criticised the acknowledgement to country.
'I will never pay respect to (the flag). I find this flag divisive,' she said.
'We are now hearing it on flights and aeroplanes. I'm sorry - this is my country as well.”
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