Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

I love Australia, but Senator Pauline Hanson hates Australia. She hates our free press. She hates our public broadcasters. She hates the very idea that ordinary Australians deserve access to truth, culture and a fair go, because, when you strip away the slogans and the stunts, what is she actually arguing for? She wants Australians to pay to access ABC iview, to put a price tag on public information. She wants to put ABC Kids behind a paywall. She wants to shut down SBS altogether—the very broadcaster that reflects modern, multicultural Australia back to itself, the one that brings us global stories, diverse voices and, yes, even those ultimate exciting moments of the World Cup shared across living rooms across the country. That is not patriotism. That is cultural vandalism. Pauline Hanson and One Nation are not patriots; they are cultural vandals. Senator Hanson doesn't believe in a free press. She undermines the institutions that hold power to account. She wants a media landscape that is narrower, weaker and easier to bully. Let's be clear: when you go after a free press, you go after democracy itself.

But it doesn't stop there. This is part of a broader pattern. Pauline Hanson and One Nation's attack is on workers' rights, an attack on women's rights, an attack on multicultural Australia and an attack on Indigenous Australia, the most ancient culture of all—the very foundations that have built our country and that bring us together. I, for one, believe in a free press. I believe in public broadcasting. I believe that everybody deserves a fair go. Pauline Hanson and One Nation are vandals.