Hanson’s White Australia claims + How Australia funds Israeli settlements

**Sacha Barbour Gatt** (0:02)
A Listener production.

**Chris Spyrou** (0:07)
Hey, it's Chris Spyrou with you. Welcome to The Briefing.
When you think of Israeli settlements in the West Bank, you might think about something happening on the other side of the world. But the links run much closer to home than you might think.

**Rawan Arraf** (0:20)
You know, if you were to walk into Dan Murphy's, you would see settlement products. What I mean by that is there are clearly settlement wines from wineries in the West Bank that are on our shelves in Dan Murphy's and other alcohol stores. And so products like that should definitely not be coming into Australia.

**Chris Spyrou** (0:38)
Australia's surprising links to Israeli settlements and the calls for our government to do more is coming up in the second half of this episode. First though, let's get into the headlines for Sacha Barbour Gatt on Monday the 20th of July.

**Sacha Barbour Gatt** (0:51)
Hey Chris, let's start the week in Aussie politics with the latest opinion poll which has seen One Nation claw back some support. After suffering a dip in last month's news poll to 29% of the primary vote, the minor party has crept back up to 30%.
Labor Meantime has dropped three points to sit on 30%, while the Coalition has lifted two points from a historic low of 17 to 19%.

**Chris Spyrou** (1:16)
Pauline Hanson Meantime continues to sit second spot ahead of Angus Taylor when it comes to preferred Prime Minister. She's on 32% of the vote compared to Anthony Albanese's 46%.
This comes after a number of polls showed Hanson and One Nation faltering following an astounding rise in popularity since the last election. But these results won't take into account how people are feeling about a number of controversial statements she made over the weekend.

**Sacha Barbour Gatt** (1:43)
Yeah, so let's get into them. First off, her much talked about sit down with far-right British commentator Tommy Robinson who finally went live, during which she talked about the white Australia policy and how its end partly created the migration issues she believes we have today.

**Pauline Hanson** (1:59)
Well, it started in 1973 with the Goff Whitlam. So they opened up and got rid of the white Australia policy. Then they started bringing in the different migrants.

**Sacha Barbour Gatt** (2:07)
Hanson also suggested in that same interview that Muslims were prominent in ripping off the NDIS. That's something that quickly drew criticism from the health minister, Mark Barla.

**Mark Barla** (2:17)
It's a baseless smear, because the evidence I have doesn't suggest any change in the proportion of people by way of nationality or religious background.

**Chris Spyrou** (2:26)
While at a conference in the UK, she told a half empty room that Australia had gone woke and complained about labour prioritising environmental policies. She also lashed Australia's approach to transgender rights.

**Pauline Hanson** (2:38)
There is only two sexes, male and female.
You got it right in Britain and I'm glad you did. It's a pity we don't learn, we're too stupid over there.

**Chris Spyrou** (2:49)
While visiting the remote Tiwi Islands yesterday, Anthony Albanese had this to say about Hansen's recent comments.

**Anthony Albanese** (2:54)
You have a responsibility to talk Australia up, to be proud of who we are.

**Chris Spyrou** (3:00)
It wasn't just the PM either, with members of the coalition and the Greens also criticising some of her comments. I mean, very expected that Alba was going to come out and make a comment on this, as were a lot of politicians that is making news.
They should be replying to it. I thought it was interesting the line he took. He said, you know, when I'm out and about, I'm always talking up Australia on the international stage. I'm always saying positive things about Australia. And there's also, I have this expectation that members of parliament do the same.
I don't wholeheartedly agree with that, because I think in my mind, and at least in my view, what he's saying there is that don't be critical of Australia. And I know those aren't the exact words that he said, but my interpretation of it is like, well, no, you can't buy silence and this image of Australia that you want going out into the world. Is the image that Pauline Hansen is portraying accurate of Australia? No, it's absolutely not. And the version of Australia she's presenting in the UK at the moment isn't accurate. However, to expect parliamentarians to be on the same talking points as you, Prime Minister, I don't think that's fair.

**Sacha Barbour Gatt** (4:00)
I don't think he's saying be on the same talking points. I think he's saying, well, what is your role when you're going overseas? What are you doing? What on earth has she been doing in the UK? She says she was on a fact-finding mission. You know, we heard her say, oh, you've got it right here in the UK. And I think you're, you know, she made these other comments saying, you're 10 to 15 years ahead of us. And you know, yeah, that's what she's trying to sell it as. I think his point wasn't only say good things about Australia. It's like, well, she literally called Australia stupid while she was over there. So you can talk critically about things happening in Australia, but I think it's all about language. And we know that Pauline Hansen definitely doesn't apply to Filter most of the time. Look, it does wrap up her Europe tour.