{"id":66490,"date":"2026-08-06T13:03:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/66490\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T13:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T13:03:32","slug":"school-kids-to-stage-nationwide-walkout-against-pauline-hanson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/66490\/","title":{"rendered":"School kids to stage nationwide \u2018walkout\u2019 against Pauline Hanson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schools kids across the country are set to walk out of classrooms next week in protest against Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party.<\/p>\n<p>The High School Anti-Capitalists, a radical students\u2019 group, is staging demonstrations in capital cities for August 13 and released a \u201cwalkout guide\u201d which includes advice on how to convince fellow classmate to join in.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"poster-img\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/04363d298b4f73630cb4bded0413d4de\" data-sctrack=\"op-poster-img\" alt=\"Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi attends Federal Court for appeal decision in case against Pauline Hanson\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The radical group, which shares affectionate posts of Vladimir Lenin on Instagram and offers courses on how to start a revolution \u2014 claimed Ms Hanson\u2019s party was \u201cracist\u201d, homophobic and \u201canti-worker\u201d, and called on students to protest against what it described as the rising influence of her party ahead of <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/national\/pauline-hanson-heckled-by-protesters-at-one-nation-event-in-melbourne\/video\/3d05d18f815a505da648e265758906ae\" target=\"_self\" data-tgev=\"event119\" data-tgev-container=\"bodylink\" data-tgev-order=\"3d05d18f815a505da648e265758906ae\" data-tgev-label=\"national\" data-tgev-metric=\"ev\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">state elections<\/a> in Victoria.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHand in hand with the billionaires and the ruling elites, One Nation has a vision for a more authoritarian, hate-filled society for ordinary people, while creating an opulent paradise for the billionaires, landlords and ruling elites,\u201d a poster read.<\/p>\n<p>The group appeared to call One Nation supporters \u201cbigots and sickos\u201d and accused the major parties of normalising Senator Hanson\u2019s policies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need an alternative that fights and organises against the far-right,\u201d the same poster read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe High School Anticapitalists think that One Nation\u2019s vitriolic, racist and anti-worker politics must not go unopposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group, which has the backing of the National Union of Students, slammed Labor\u2019s national security policy and accuse it of jumping \u201con the train of Islamophobia\u201d. It said the Liberals\u2019 \u2018Australian Values Migration Plan\u2019 was \u201cvirtually indistinguishable\u201d from that of One Nation\u2019s plans and accused The Greens of being sellouts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Greens are no alternative,\u201d they wrote. \u201cDespite holding left-wing positions on certain questions, the party fundamentally supports the continuation of capitalism, albeit a nicer and fairer version.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group\u2019s leaflet includes information on the time and locations of protests, One Nation\u2019s latest national polling, and a script on how to convince fellow classmate to join the walkout.<\/p>\n<p>It includes advice like creating a group chat for the day with classmates, putting up posters in schools and inside lockers and to follow and share content from the group\u2019s social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after hundreds of protesters rallied outside a One Nation event in Melbourne earlier this week where Ms Hanson was speaking.<\/p>\n<p>The party\u2019s supporters met to see the new Victorian party leader and candidates for the November election at the fundraiser in Hawthorn.<\/p>\n<p>Protesters carried banners and others used loud speaker, according to <a class=\"body-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2026-08-03\/one-nation-victoria-candiates-revealed\/106989410\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the ABC<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier that day, One Nation unveiled its upper house candidates for the upcoming Victorian election.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Hanson blocked three media outlets from attending the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Ms Hanson revealed the seven candidates and one incumbent who would run for the party at the November election, but reporters from the ABC, The Age and The Guardian were denied entry.<\/p>\n<p>Media allowed to ask questions of the career politician queried why the outlets were banned.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry that democracy doesn\u2019t happen on the ABC at all. And I\u2019m sick of it, it\u2019s not fair and just in their reporting,\u201d Ms Hanson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if you want to criticise and have a go at me not putting the truth across, you\u2019re not giving me the truth of democracy either.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd so therefore, no, I\u2019m not going to have them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read related topics:<a class=\"topic_tag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.news.com.au\/topics\/pauline-hanson\" data-tgev-container=\"story-topic-links\" data-tgev-label=\"Pauline Hanson\" data-tgev-order=\"1\" data-tgev-metric=\"npv\" data-tgev=\"event10\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pauline Hanson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Schools kids across the country are set to walk out of classrooms next week in protest against 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