‘She’s bulletproof’ - Jacinta Price attacks Pauline Hanson 🥊

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1:00Sydney's best breakfast. Well Pauline Hanson has ignited yet another political storm. The one nation leader is branded in Indigenous Australians the most primitive race on earth. The comments have been made during an interview last year. Pauline had been questioning why Indigenous culture in history is taught in Aussie schools. What the hell have they done in this country? For certain, it's supposedly 60,000 years. They'd never invented the wheel. There was nothing there. What are we actually holding up? A few, you know, paintings? Sorry. They're in that primitive race on earth. The resurface comments have sparked a backlash from all sides of politics. Senator Jacinta Nambajimpa Price has delivered the most blistering attack of all. She says, I'm disappointed by the comments made by Senator Hanson. Her statement is a demonstration of willful ignorance. It reveals her complete failure to understand Australia's first peoples.

2:06All decent Australians I'm sure would condemn such comments. But Pauline Hanson doesn't seem to be phased. She's now published a snippet of the interview to her social media pages saying the media is in a tailspin again about comments made a year ago on a podcast. Have a look, you be the judge. The Liberal Senator Jacinta Nambajimpa Price is on the line live right now. Senator good morning. Good morning, Ben. Good morning to your listeners. I've got a lot of one nation supporters saying that this is going to backfire that every time anyone attacks Pauline Hanson, Pauline Hanson's numbers just go up even further. Yeah, look, when you're in our public office, no one is beyond reproach when it comes to issues. I mean, you know, I came into parliament because I obviously wanted to make some changes to support some of our most marginalized Australians. I have stood up for this country throughout the voice because I don't believe we should be

3:08divided along the lines of race. And in fact, you know, these are the last comments I'll make on this matter today because I'm actually sick of talking about race in our country. If you're, you know, I've stood in the chamber and I've defended Pauline over the years. I've been the first to do so. I've been the first alongside Pauline to condemn remarks relating to race and white Australians from media thought. So I don't see how trying to combat that kind of racism by utilizing the same sort of language about another group of Australians around race is actually beneficial to creating understanding, to bringing Australians together and look up spent decades. Over two decades as part of our family business with my parent as a cross-cultural educator to bring about understanding and then create this idea of, I suppose, reconciliation.

4:12And I'm just done with all these race conversations basically. And like I said, Pauline is not beyond reproach when it comes to these particular issues, but she did absolutely demonstrate well for the ignorance because there's a hell of a lot more to Australia's first people than simply what her remarks suggest. And when you say the most primitive race on earth, you are speaking about a race of people. And I don't care what excuses are being made. It was her tone and inflections throughout those remarks of the interview. And I've watched the entire interview and look, I agree with the fact that in our education system we need to teach history appropriately. We need to teach about Australia's first people as well. And none of that should be weaponized politically in any way. And unfortunately, the activist class has done that. And it's right to call

5:13that out because that is where the division is coming from. It's right to call out when culture has been reinvented or romanticized and then plugged into our education system. Bruce Pasco has done a lot of damage because he has done precisely that. Try to rewrite history, try to romanticize Aboriginal culture and try to reinvent it at the same time. And so I'll call it out on both sides of the argument because we need to focus on things that are far more important. Yes, education is important. The state of our country is very important. But if we're supposed to improve our country, we've got to do that together and not denigrate one another on the basis of race. I'm keen to know Jacinda was at the content or the tone that concerns you the most. Well, I suppose it was both. I mean, you know,

6:13the tone and the inflections and the wording of the most primitive race on earth and suggestion that there is absolutely nothing we have to offer or done that is particularly remarkable or it just leads to suggesting that, you know, Australia's first people and can I remind listeners, my grandparents, their life turned around, they experienced white-cellos and they're very first in their adolescence to them for the first time in their lives. They went through immense change over their lifetime. They saw it Australia changing and evolving and wanted to be part of that and actually embraced these newcomers into their land effectively. To the point where they were so incredibly proud that their daughter married a white Australian and they never judged any

7:15human on the basis of race but celebrated that, you know, we're all human beings ultimately and that's what I was raised to no one to understand and to see what my grandparents went through in their lifetime and the incredible achievements they made and contributions they made to this country. My grandfather labored for the Army and built our spring, built places in and throughout Central Australia. Jacinda, I'm keen to ask you just about Pauline Hanson. You say no one is beyond reproach and you're right, she's a politician, she has to accept responsibility for own words but I can tell you I've got a pretty good temperature check on what people are saying, not only among the 2GB audience but also online because we get thousands of comments that come through whenever we share any of these stories and it's clear that no matter what people throw at Pauline Hanson she's virtually bulletproof. What do you put that down to? Look, I suppose I put that down to

8:16certainly frustrations that Australians feel because the state of our country. I've been just as frustrated as well which is why I've fought that I've fought in terms of pushing back on the activist class and those who are extremists in our country but you don't push back with a similar sort of tone and level of extremism when talking about other people in our country. That's not how you do it. You've got to bring Australians together ultimately. Like I said in order to resolve our really tough issues. On another issue, you're also the Minister for small businesses, a survey from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry saying one in three small businesses have seriously considered shutting their door. There'll be a lot of people who'd be going paycheck to paycheck at the moment. Yeah, absolutely. It's a devastating situation that small businesses are confronted with at the moment. I mean, you've got a huge amount. You've got 48.9% who are struggling

9:20with their cash flow and their profitability. You've got those who are considering closing their businesses and that's over last year and that's around 34% of those down in the survey. Almost 25% are considering closing their business in the next 12 months coming because there's under so much pressure. But this is the part that really gets to me, right? Nearly 40% of small businesses, small business owners actually pay themselves less than $40,000 a year just to keep the doors open just so they can pay their employees a wage greater than their own to keep people on, to keep staff and to give opportunities to apprentices. You know, and this government treats profit like a dirty word, but profit is required for a business to grow, to expand, to employ more people to bring on apprentices and to contribute meaningfully to our economy,

10:22which we know is absolutely smashed at the moment and we're heading for a possible recession. And one of the disappointing things there is we've heard from a lot of mums and dads who say that when their kids now say they want to start a business, the parents say just be careful before you jump in head first because of the state of the economy at the moment. We appreciate your time and thank you for coming on 2GB breakfast. No worries, thanks for having me then. Just send a number, Jim, the price, the shadow minister for small business. So who's camp you in on this one? Pauline Hanson or Jacinda Price? And I think Pauline's comments were unnecessary and nasty, but I'll tell you what, it doesn't matter what they throw at her, she bounces back and she's proven it once again. And of course, people start saying, well, hang on a moment, why have these comments been dragged out from a year ago? If they were so horrific, why weren't they focused on 12 months ago? And you can bet there's going to be more of this of people digging through Pauline Hanson's past, particularly podcast and media appearances and digging up audio

11:26that no one cared about a year ago or two years ago and all of a sudden they become a scandal. And have a look at the latest numbers of the orange wave about to hit New South Wales. One nation is set to give Labor a run for their money at the New South Wales election. The two parties are now level pegging less than six months out. According to a new poll, both one nation and Labor are on track to secure 29% of first preference votes, 18% of nominated the Liberals or the Nationals and the new polling has been commissioned by the Minerals Council. 1,000 voters have been surveyed and at the last election, Labor secured 37% support and one nation only scored 2% fast forward three and a half years. They're both level at 29. According to the polling published in the Australian cost of living remains the key issue. For 55% of people surveyed, it's the most pressing concern. 8% are worried about development and population growth. 6% say health. 5% say more needs to be done about crime. And on the attacks on Pauline Hanson, I think at the moment,

12:32while she would probably prefer to avoid the kind of controversy that she's quoted today, there'll be advisors behind the scenes saying Pauline, the more they attack you, the more support you get. To listen to the full show, listen live, weekdays from 530 to 9am on 2GB.com. You needed a medical emergency kit. These aren't first aid kits. They contain essential prescriptions used for over 30 common conditions, sinus and ear infection, UTIs, stomach bug, travelers diarrhea and more. On hand before you need them. Use your doctor-developed guidebook to select the right prescription or call their telemedicine doctor standing by. It's like an urgent

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