Today’s Brooke Boney addresses Pauline Hanson’s axing: ‘I am so happy to see her gone’
The Today Show’s entertainment reporter and Gamilaroi/Gomeroi woman Brooke Boney has responded to Nine’s decision to cut Pauline Hanson from its contributor lineup, saying she is “so happy” to see Hanson axed.
Speaking on ABC’s Q+A, Boney said some of the comments made by Hanson had left her heartbroken.
What can be done to protect the residents of Melbourne’s locked down towers from further vilification? And what can be to ensure these residents have access to daily necessities? #QandA pic.twitter.com/5u5kLbJz5I
Brooke fails to see that many people agree with Pauline, which is why they paid her to be on TV regularly. remember more than a million voted for Pauline Hanson. That’s more than tuned into Masterchef last night!
Another example of the left trying to silence voices they don’t like or don’t agree with, and another broadcast celebrating their moral high ground. I don’t agree with what Pauline H said but we need open discussion and debate even if we don’t like what we hear.
Dan Andrew’s also pointed out there are residence in the towers that are reliant on methadone to treat their heroine addiction, and he has provided councilors for those who will suffer alcohol withdrawals and I don’t see him getting struck off anyone’s call sheet.
you can debate facts. you can’t debate opinion.
therein lies the dilemma how would you debate Pauline Hanson?
That’s a great point @goodone. I contacted the Today Show this morning to see if they would air my view that the sky is actually green and not blue – would you believe that they wouldn’t give me the time of day! Pauline Hanson’s views on race are equally as compelling, so this move doesn’t surprise me one bit.
Back on topic, isn’t it just so comforting to know that this country is a true meritocracy? That way, when immigrants and the generationally poor complain, I know it is solely because they made bad decisions in life! It’s so much easier to write groups of people off as criminals than it is to actually help them, wouldn’t you agree?
Christopher Pyne was right when he said “Ratings is very much the priority of those kinds of shows, or most commercial television, because they want to sell advertising. Pauline Hanson does very well for ratings because she’ll say these kind of totally inappropriate things,” said Pyne.”
Our industry is complicit in spreading racism in this country.
Ben fails to see that many people strongly agree with Pauline – many more than voted for her or her Party.
Ben states “remember more than a million voted for Pauline Hanson”. No I don’t remember that.
When she ran for a Queensland Senate in 2016 she received 20,927 votes. With preferences that rose to 229,056.
In the 2019 Federal Election Pauline Hanson’s One Nation received 438,587 first preference votes in the House of Representatives, and failed to secure a seat In the Senate Malcolm Roberts was elected a Senator with18,556 first preference votes coupled with 277,558 ticket votes. Nationally her party received 788,203 first preference votes.
Looks like a minority to me.
Based on your ‘logic’ Masterchef should be in Federal Parliament instead!
And Pauline would not have received anywhere near as many votes as she did if Channels 7 and 9 did not support her with so much airtime over the last decade. Dancing with the Stars? More like Dancing with the Far Right in Australia.
The stations that have brought us Mega Mondays and the Cash Cow have also brought red-hot hatred into the federal parliament.
Hearing Brooke and (to an extent) Terri Butler speak in an intelligent, articulate and balanced way on Q&A gave me hope for the media and political discourse in this country.
Broadcasters have a duty to provide a platform to those who contribute to furthering our society and Australia. Not those who deduct from it.
Label it as free speech, racism is illegal for a reason.