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16-08-2018, 03:17 AM
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Australia's Parliament Passed a Test.

Interesting opinion piece in the Sydney Morning Herald this morning by the SMH's political editor about the right wing loonie who entered the Senate under the One Nation banner but who's views were too extreme even for them. His maiden speech has been roundly condemned even by the most surprising of people.

A senator made a hateful and inflammatory speech in the federal Parliament on Tuesday evening, and by Wednesday it had already achieved two good outcomes.

By speaking the unspeakable, Senator Fraser Anning shattered one of the extreme right’s most cherished claims to victimhood.

The aggrieved right fringe claims that its views are censored, that it speaks for a silent majority cowed into silence by the political correctness of a minority elite. Anning himself called for the “restoration” of free speech.

But, of course, there was no censorship. He delivered his speech on the floor of the Senate. He spoke for as long as he pleased. He was received politely. So politely, in fact, that some senators later rued shaking his hand as protocol demands for a senator’s first speech.
Later...

The National Party’s deputy leader, Bridget McKenzie, told the Senate: “I think it’s a great privilege to be here today to see Senator [Penny] Wong and Senator [Mathias] Cormann”, drawn from Chinese Malaysian and Belgian backgrounds respectively, “standing as one”.

The unifying power of modern Australia was on display when Ed Husic, a Muslim Labor MP from Sydney, hugged Josh Frydenberg, a Jewish Liberal from Melbourne, at one stroke transcending three great divides.

Even Pauline Hanson, whose One Nation party gave Anning his entree into Parliament before he quit it, denounced Anning’s speech as being “straight from Goebbels' handbook”.
Thanks to Senator Anning the right wing loonie fringe is rightly back where it belongs back in the shadows with the nutters where nobody takes a blind bit of notice of them.

As the writer said, "Anning’s provocation posed a test to the Australian Parliament. It passed."

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/fede...15-p4zxpn.html
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16-08-2018, 03:42 AM
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Re: Australia's Parliament Passed a Test.

Just to give a taste of the people Anning associates with - here is fellow nutter the leader of his new party Bob Katter's Australian Party talking about about same sex marriage.





 

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