20 years after she warned Australia about Asians, Pauline Hanson takes aim at China investment and Muslims
Pauline Hanson’s comments about the impact of Islam and migration on Australia have received condemnation from Muslim leaders and politicians across the spectrum
Hanson wasn’t exactly new to the political scene, though she’d long been toiling on its sidelines. Back during her heyday when she first held a parliamentary seat in 1996, Hanson was notorious for bashing indigenous affairs and whipping up anti-immigrant sentiment, warning at the time that Australia was in danger of getting “swamped by Asians.”
On Wednesday - after 16 years out of parliament - she made her first speech back in the spotlight to denounce Chinese ownership of assets and warn about the impact of Islam and migration on Australia.
“Any foreign ownership is regrettable, but why are we allowing the Chinese government, an oppressive communist regime ,to own our assets?” Hanson said in the Senate.