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<\/p>\nPauline Hanson has doubled down on her calls for Australia to be a \u201cmonocultural\u201d society, telling parliament she is \u201cdelighted\u201d by the response she provoked.<\/p>\n
Senator Hanson sparked controversy last week when she used her first-ever National Press Club address to declare Australia \u201cmust be monocultural\u201d.<\/p>\n
The comments have sparked a major debate, with the leaders of all major parties rejecting her claims.<\/p>\n
Speaking in the Senate on Wednesday, the One Nation leader said this was \u201cexactly what I intended\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou’d be forgiven for thinking I had slaughtered a sacred cow at the National Press Club last week. Monoculturalism is virtually all you’ve been able to talk about since that day,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m delighted this issue has been publicly examined and debated; it’s a debate many Australians have been itching to have, so I make no apology for raising it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senator Hanson said that in the week since her speech, her critics had taken her comments \u201cinto the realm of utter fantasy\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was going to ban foreign food, and the Socceroos wouldn’t have beaten Turkey under my policy. What rubbish, predictable and pathetic,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese attacked the position, declaring it was inconsistent with modern Australia.<\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cModern Australia is not a monoculture and it never has been,\u201d Mr Albanese told reporters.<\/p>\n
Mr Albanese then pointed to the Socceroos, whose players come from a wide diversity of backgrounds, as an example of multicultural Australia.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have had a rich culture and when we look at the Socceroos, we see examples of that rich culture, people who are proud of their ethnicity,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s who we are, so it\u2019s really a nonsense argument to go back to something that was actually never there.\u201d<\/p>\n
But Senator Hanson said the Socceroos were actually an example of what she was calling for.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Socceroos, in fact, represent my vision of a monocultural Australia – people from different backgrounds and cultures and nations all wearing green and gold, and representing one nation, under one flag, and succeeding under the same set of rules,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralian monoculture is not exclusive, it is welcoming. It’s an umbrella which covers all manner of difference. It’s not a dirty word.\u201d<\/p>\n
As an example, Ms Hanson pointed to One Nation\u2019s South Australian MP Carlos Quaremba, describing him as a quintessential Australian.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he was a baby, (his family) escaped the military junta in Argentina and sought refuge in Australia,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey chose to be Australian, but they didn’t discard their cultural traditions.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarlos, who is \u2026 a bloody Aussie, still loves his Argentinian barbecues and wouldn’t give them up for anything. I love them too.\u201d<\/p>\n
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The One Nation leader said the people she had a problem with were those who came to Australia but have no intention to become Australian.<\/p>\n
\u201cIncreasingly, however, there are people choosing to come to Australia with no intention of becoming Australian or accepting Australian values, customs, traditions, and laws,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we’re going to accept you, you must accept us too. That’s not too much to ask. It’s the bare minimum we should be demanding.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s where we should be drawing the line on things incompatible with our culture – like Sharia law, child marriages, roaming armed gangs, female circumcision, sex selective abortion, and the burqa.<\/p>\n
\u201cBurqas are about confining and controlling women, which is un-Australian. Under a One Nation government, they will be banned.\u201d<\/p>\n
Senator Hanson said becoming Australian meant \u201caccepting our culture and the values, customs, and traditions which define us: A fair go, tolerance, secular democracy, freedom of speech and religion, and the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt means accepting our reverence and larrikinism \u2013 bring back Paul Hogan and Norman Gunston, these are the essential features of Australian modern culture, and there’s nothing remotely exclusionary about them,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese values are not even especially unique. They’re accepted widely in the democratic world because they are values which are blind to race or gender or religion.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut they’re not accepted by many who are allowed to come here, and that’s what must be addressed.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson has doubled down on her calls for Australia to be a \u201cmonocultural\u201d society, telling parliament she…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1869,22,21,253,11674,30189,25033,1955,4721],"class_list":["post-37689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-albanese","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-culture","tag-hanson","tag-monoculture","tag-multiculturalism","tag-one-nation","tag-socceroos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}