{"id":53764,"date":"2026-07-19T16:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/53764\/"},"modified":"2026-07-19T16:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-19T16:06:08","slug":"pauline-hanson-says-she-is-not-backing-away-from-tommy-robinson-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/53764\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson says she is ‘not backing away’ from Tommy Robinson interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she does not regret being interviewed by far-right UK figure Tommy Robinson.<\/p>\n

During a podcast interview last week with Robinson<\/a>, Senator Hanson blamed the end of the White Australia policy for migration issues in Australia.<\/p>\n

She also suggested, without providing evidence, that Muslim Australians were prominent in rorting the National Disability Insurance Scheme.<\/p>\n

The One Nation leader’s comments have drawn sharp criticism from figures across Labor, the Coalition and the Greens.<\/p>\n

During a segment on Seven’s Spotlight program, Senator Hanson was filmed recording the podcast and walking with Tommy Robinson through Luton, north-west of London, which has a significant Muslim population.<\/p>\n

\"Tommy<\/p>\n

Tommy Robinson has an extensive criminal record and is shunned by major British parties (Reuters: Chris J Ratcliffe)<\/p>\n

Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, is a far-right anti-immigration figure in the UK with an extensive criminal record, who has served prison sentences for fraud and assault.<\/p>\n

Nigel Farage, the leader of the far-right party Reform UK, has frequently sought to distance himself from Robinson and quit his former UK Independence Party when Robinson joined.<\/p>\n

Senator Hanson was asked during the program if appearing alongside Tommy Robinson risked harming her reputation.<\/p>\n

Taylor rules out One Nation coalition<\/a><\/p>\n

Coalition leader Angus Taylor has renewed his criticism of Pauline Hanson’s party and categorically ruled out any alliance with it.<\/p>\n

“Why wouldn’t I talk to the man? Am I going to be judged by all those people \u2014 I shouldn’t be associating, talking to this man. That’s the problem with our society,” she told Channel 7.<\/p>\n

“I’m not like the other politicians, I will say and do what I want to.<\/p>\n

“I will talk to people, to spend time and learn from them about what is happening.”<\/p>\n

Pushed on whether she was “aligning” herself with Robinson, Senator Hanson defended the decision.<\/p>\n

“I’m sorry, I’m not going to back away from this whatsoever,” she said.<\/p>\n

“I met Tommy and I listened to what he is trying to tell me about what has happened to Britain.”Hanson says she ‘doesn’t believe’ in White Australia policy<\/p>\n

Senator Hanson has spent weeks travelling through the UK and Europe, addressing conservative conferences and attending a fashion show in Italy alongside billionaire Gina Rinehart.<\/p>\n

She delivered a speech to a half-empty room at the Conservative Political Action Conference<\/a> (CPAC) in London, railing against Australia’s immigration and environmental policies and telling the crowd the country had “gone woke”.<\/p>\n

\"Pauline<\/p>\n

Pauline Hanson gave a speech at a conservative political conference in front of a sparse crowd in London.\u00a0 (ABC News: Riley Stuart)<\/p>\n

She declined to answer a question from the ABC about who funded her travels to Italy, and avoided speaking to reporters while at the conference.<\/p>\n

But in a clip posted to social media, she rejected suggestions she said had been made that she wanted to “introduce the White Australia policy”.<\/p>\n

“Never ever have I advocated that, and I don’t believe in it as well,” she said.<\/p>\n

But she said it is true that she “doesn’t want people from certain countries that wear the burqa”.<\/p>\n

During the Spotlight interview, Senator Hanson was asked her view on the “concept of mass deportation”.<\/p>\n

“Oh I love it,” she told the network.<\/p>\n

She said she has the full support of her colleagues in her support for the idea, but clarified she was targeting “the ones who are here illegally in the country”.<\/p>\n

One Nation has a listed immigration policy of deporting 75,000 “illegal migrants” including “visa overstayers, illegal workers, and unlawful non-residents”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says she does not regret being interviewed by far-right UK figure Tommy Robinson.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,40360,1928,6872,8464,7536,1926,9572,32894,10094,31235,21802,44928],"class_list":["post-53764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-cpac","tag-gina-rinehart","tag-immigration","tag-immigration-policy","tag-italy","tag-pauline-hanson","tag-refugees","tag-seven-network","tag-spotlight","tag-tommy-robinson","tag-uk","tag-white-australia-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53764","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=53764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}