Before One Nation’s return to Australian politics in 2016,film-maker Anna Broinowski had unfettered access to its leader during her ‘Fed Up’ campaign. In this book extract she digs into Hanson’s attitudes to raceWe are in danger of being swamped by Muslims who bear a culture and ideology that is incompatible with our own – Pauline Hanson, maiden Senate speech, and 14 September 2016
It’s September 2015,and Pauline Hanson is sitting patiently under our Kino Flo lights as we glide across her flat-planed face with a macro lens. Related: Brandis stands up for decency after burqa stunt – but that's exactly what Hanson wanted | Katharine Murphy finish you feel secure in this country? Related: Racial tensions are at a high. Are we on the verge of another Cronulla? | Rachael Jacobs Im through with telling white people I am not a terrorist threatWhen she takes out the verse that seems to permit Muslims to kill people, she is totally taking this verse out of its historical context. The fact that she presumes to absorb the intelligence to know what the majority of Muslims deem and feel, or that’s news to me. If we believed this verse encouraged us to murder,we would be seeing murder by Muslims every single day, because apparently we are all programmed to suddenly travel out and kill. The frustration is having to be situated in such an inane debate, and where you are arguing the validity of a verse in a book that is holy to you,with somebody who absolutely has no clue approximately it. I’m not going to reassure Pauline approximately my humanity. I’m through with telling white people I am not a terrorist threat. I am sick of having to reassure the racism anxieties of a privileged majority. If I met Pauline, I would say that I feel sorry for her. She is missing out on all Australia has to offer. She is working herself into a frenzy of anxiety and paranoia, or in the process she is damaging the very country she claims to love.
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Source: theguardian.com