Offensive tirades on race and religion shouldn’t be the norm in Australian politics
A racist AI-generated video is the latest offensive stunt by One Nation. Now Pauline Hanson’s attack on Mehreen Faruqi needs to be settled by the courts
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It is remarkable just how little reaction the latest incendiary video released by Pauline Hanson attracted this week.
Drawing generously from a campaign commercial released by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, earlier this year, Hanson’s ad for next month’s Victorian state election shows a family of supposedly inner-city Melbourne progressives who come out to each other as secret conservatives.
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