Green Panic: "Deniers" may hold the Balance of Power in the Aussie Senate

Pauline Hanson
Pauline Hanson. By Dragons Abreast Australia – originally posted to Picasa as Pauline Hanson, Jenny Petterson, Michelle Hanton, Joanne Petterson, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12314595

Guest essay by Eric Worrall

Greens are panicking in Australia in the wake of the recent cliffhanger Federal Election, as the likelihood grows that climate skeptic Pauline Hanson, who has repeatedly demanded a Royal Commission into Climate Change, will control the balance of power in the new Australian Senate.

Australia Is Being Swamped By Climate Change Deniers

With Pauline Hanson looking certain to return to parliament, there’s never been a worse time to be the Great Barrier Reef, writes Liz Conor.

Fellow Austraiyans. If you are reading me now it means that I have become murderous.

Murderously, apoplectically incensed.

Pauline Hanson appears to have picked up a spot in our Senate at the time of writing, possibly even two or more. She will represent Queensland in our House of Review, where our nation’s proposed laws are rejected or amended. And it’s not a three-year term. Unless Turnbull (potentially newly rolled into Prime Minister Morrison out of revenge for the LNP’s slashed majority) finds some other spurious reason to call a double dissolution, Hanson’s term is Six. Six. Six.

Hanson will make extravagant use of the Senate’s committee system, already proposing royal commissions into Islam and climate science. How in chrissname do you conduct an inquiry into one of the three major world religions? Imagine the terms of reference. Are there too many believers? Should they perform the pilgrimage to Mecca? Are Humans superior to Angels? Will the Australian Royal commission into erm, Islam require the seventh-century originals of its foundational documents be tendered – the Qur’an, hadith and tafsir?

And why does Hanson even have an opinion on climate science? Why are racists climate deniers? Does Hanson have doubts about enlightenment empiricism? Logical positivism? The verification of Authentic Knowledge? Or has she, like most climate deniers and obstructers, featherbedded her campaign with undeclared funds from fossil fuel conglomerates?

believe we are in danger of being swamped by Caucasians, tax evasions and Australasians. They have their own culture and religion, form ghettos, and do not assimilate.

We are bringing in people from Oxley at the moment. There was a huge amount coming to our polling booths, and they’ve got diseases, they’ve got BIAS.

Read more: https://newmatilda.com/2016/07/04/australia-is-being-swamped-by-climate-change-deniers/

It wasn’t supposed to be this way. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the climate enthusiast who toppled Australia’s former PM Tony Abbott, used a provision of the Australian Constitution to trigger a double dissolution election – a simultaneous election of both federal Senate and Representative seats.

Turnbull’s intention was to secure a clear mandate. But it all went wrong for him – the election turned into a massive backlash from former Abbott and Palmer United supporters, who defected in droves to minor parties like Pauline Hanson’s One Nation.

Unless Turnbull is really lucky, and the remaining uncounted votes go his way, Turnbull’s only real hope is to cling to power as leader of a fractious minority government, with “support” from people who despise him.

So who is Pauline Hanson? Hanson exploded onto the political scene in 1996, when she won the seat of Oxley in Brisbane on a tsunami of populist right wing revulsion at the unwavering political correctness of mainstream political parties. She is one of Australia’s most colourful and well known political characters. She has been repeatedly accused of racism because of her strong views about Islam and uncontrolled immigration. She was convicted of electoral fraud in 2002, but the conviction was overturned in 2003 on appeal.

Her return to politics, this time as a Federal Senator, in a likely pivotal political position, is being greeted with horror by greens and socialists who frankly have been having a very bad year, since the “high” point of the hollow Paris agreement.

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July 5, 2016 5:33 am

Someone should explain to these dills that a religion is not a race. Whether one is justified, or not, or even bigoted, in disliking a religion (or even its followers), it is not racism! There isn’t even any equivalence between the two. You can’t choose your genetics, you can choose your beliefs.

July 5, 2016 6:00 am

Hansen does make for good comedy. The Aussies in the audience may remember this parody :

Google Pauline Pantsdown or Paula Pantsdown for more fun & games

Marcus
Reply to  Jeff L
July 5, 2016 6:27 am

..Can’ you even check to make sure you spelt her name properly…or were you talking about James ?? LOL

schitzree
Reply to  Jeff L
July 5, 2016 8:34 pm

And ironically the closest anyone comes to actually providing proof that she’s crazy or stupid like all the progressive’s claim is the Aussi equivalent of a SNL skit.
Standard Progressive tactic. Make the accusation that someone is ‘racist’ or ‘crazy’ or ‘dumb’, over and over again. Don’t bother providing evidence. Once the public has heard it enough time they won’t even question it.
“It’s been reported often, so it must be true.”

July 5, 2016 6:27 am

In other potentially huge political news, FBI director James Comey is scheduled to hold a press conference at 11:00 EDT.
I think this may be when the results of the Hillary Clinton investigation are made public.
And we find out if there is a single shred of integrity in government in the US anymore.

Marcus
Reply to  Menicholas
July 5, 2016 6:36 am

..If that were true, it would be on the FBI Web Blog….It’s not !!

Reply to  Menicholas
July 5, 2016 7:01 am

What was the ‘count of staff’ (lawfirms, lawyers, aids, advisers, etc.) who also attended her”FBI interview”?

Marcus
Reply to  _Jim
July 5, 2016 7:23 am

The New York Times……
“Accompanying Mrs. Clinton into the meeting were her lawyer David E. Kendall; Cheryl D. Mills and Heather Samuelson, longtime aides who are also lawyers; and two lawyers from Mr. Kendall’s firm, Williams & Connolly, Katherine Turner and Amy Saharia.
Eight officials from the F.B.I. and the Department of Justice conducted the interview, according to a person who was familiar with the substance of the session but declined to be named because the meeting was private. This person characterized the meeting as “civil” and “businesslike.””
IMHO…..
There is an absolute conflict of interest problem about Cheryl D. Mills and Heather Samuelson being in on the interview, because they themselves were part of the other witnesses interviewed ! NUTS !

Marcus
Reply to  Menicholas
July 5, 2016 7:25 am

…I stand corrected !!!
FBI Director James Comey to address reporters at 11 a.m. ET. Watch LIVE on Fox News and FoxNews.com.

LdB
July 5, 2016 6:46 am

I love some of the commentary, when a tree hugging hippy loser bank teller without a clue or a brain gets elected (Sarah Hanson-Young) it’s okay, but when a hard working single mother who ran a fish and chip shop gets elected it’s bad.
Sarah Hansen-Young is far more toxic to most Australians than Hansen, she is like her idol Merkel wants an open door policy for refugees and that is just a start for dumb ideas. 30 days in detention and you are welcome
http://sarah-hanson-young.greensmps.org.au/portfolios/immigration-citizenship
They are both bad, but some people voted for them and they are both in … that is how democracy works.
Do I like either of them .. NO … but they represent voters who have just as much right as the toffee nosed prats complaining.

Reply to  LdB
July 5, 2016 7:15 am

Two peoples, separated by a common language. – paraphrasing Wilde or Shaw
That seems to apply to AUS and USA as well; I think I need a decoder ring to decipher some of the above.

Juan Slayton
Reply to  _Jim
July 5, 2016 7:45 am

Hmmm… decoder ring
Well, I’ve got one I can lend you. Sky King version, c. 1948. But I think it will need an upgrade. : > )

Reply to  LdB
July 6, 2016 4:49 pm

LdB on Sarah Hanson-Young
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Sarah Hanson-Young is a member of the Greens party. LdB is correct to describe her comments as toxic. But she is far from being the most toxic Green in Parliament. Senator Lee Rhiannon (Greens, NSW) comes close to holding that doubtful honour.
The Greens in Australia exist as separate organisations in several States as well as at the National level. Thus we have NSW Greens who produce NSW Greens policy and Australian Greens who produce Australian Greens policy. The NSW brand is the more toxic. For a brief period in 2011 the NSW party adopted as policy its support for the global Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. This reflected the strong pro-Palestine and anti-Israel views of Senator Rhiannon. The public outcry caused a rethink and the party then resolved to ‘recognise “the legitimacy of the BDS as a political tactic” but not to pursue it as policy.’
A useful discussion of the BDS issue in Australia and the US is at:-
https://newmatilda.com/2016/03/14/brave-and-better-targetted-the-greens-new-policy-on-boycotting-israel/
The party otherwise has a fairly standard leftist Green agenda including the phase out of coal in favour of renewables; strengthening the public sector including public ownership of transport; sustainability etc etc
The Greens did not gain increased Parliamentary representation in this election but demonstrated strong voting performance in seats located in the inner suburbs of the Australian Capital cities. They have consolidated and will be a stronger presence next time. In the long run the Greens will be a much more toxic presence than Pauline Hanson’s ‘One Nation’.
Hanson’s crew will flameout as was the case twenty years ago when ‘One Nation’ had 11 representatives in the Queensland State parliament (now it has none) and Hanson in the federal House of Representatives for one term only.

clovis marcus
July 5, 2016 6:59 am

Equating Halal with food allergies is a bit mad.
I can see the flecks of foamy spittle from here.

higley7
July 5, 2016 7:51 am

“How in chrissname do you conduct an inquiry into one of the three major world religions?”
Islam is not a true religion as it controls almost all behaviors of the individual and makes the individual subservient to their god. That defines a cult. And, as Islam comes with a civic plan for a theocracy with plans for world domination and validates slavery, murder, rape, or oppression of all non-Muslims (infidels) and non-Quran-adherent Muslims. Children and women are chattel who can be abused, maimed or killed, all in name of their “religion.” No religion can be considered acceptable when it places such a low value on human life, let alone the lives of its own members.
The Quran’s early verses are quite nice and peaceful, but the later verses become more and more violent and unacceptable. The rule for understanding the Quran is that the later verses override the early verses, which means that, if you are Quran-adherent, you are an enemy of the rest of the world. Australians are completely correct in questions a “religion” that is constantly at (deadly) odds with their government.
You also cannot trust Quran-adherent Muslims as the principle of Taqiyya gives them permission to lie as much as they want to Infidels or non-Quran-adherent Muslims as long as they do so to further the goals of Islam to eventually create the Caliphate. They can rationalize just about any lie as furthering there goals.The US supposedly got into a treaty with Iran? There is no way that they will adhere to a treaty with Infidels.

July 5, 2016 10:04 am

A number of CAGW scientists, quite a few from Oz, came down with a neurotic condition tagged “the climate blues” several years ago when the dreaded “Pause” couldn’t be ignored or rationalized anymore. Naturally they rationalized that their illness was due to being in the front lines saving the planet and studiously ignored the real reason – accepting the pause would mean realization that they had wasted an entire life’s career! Isn’t it interesting that truth and reality are so important to us that we will become sick if we don’t acknowledge it? The psychiatric definition of this condition….wait for it…. is being in D*nile!
That was the beginning of the slide. It seems to have had some rather cataclysmic developments: Brexit, reversal of coal use promises, the rest of the EU nearing break up, the popularity of Trump, France’s Trump-like Jean-Marie Penn and with it all the certain collapse of the Paris Agreement and probably the whole “New World Order” so patiently planned by the marxbrothers and centered on the UN as the rallying point. Maybe we can hope to the dismantling of elitist politicized education-lite and its replacement based on logical thought and freedom of speech. We will definitely need more Trumps, La Pens, Hansons and Nigel Farrages to make it happen. Maybe Democrats and other elitist lefties will even have to doff their red capes to remain in future hunts.

J. Philip Peterson
July 5, 2016 10:40 am

Watched some YouTube videos of Pauline Hanson. She seems to be pretty intelligent to me, and aware of all the issues important to the people who live in Australia.
She knows the history of UN Agenda 21, and that one alone is good enough for me.

Reply to  J. Philip Peterson
July 5, 2016 3:04 pm

Ouch!
Brutal, honest answers to questions!

J. Philip Peterson
Reply to  _Jim
July 5, 2016 8:27 pm

Saw that one too. That was basically a hit job on her, like 60 Minutes does in the USA.

J. Philip Peterson
July 5, 2016 10:45 am

Watched some YouTube videos of Pauline Hanson. She seems to be pretty intelligent to me, and aware of all the important issues of the people who live in Australia. She knows the history of UN Agenda 21, and that one alone is good enough for me.

J. Philip Peterson
Reply to  J. Philip Peterson
July 5, 2016 12:46 pm

Oops, could the Mod remove one of my duplicate posts?

July 5, 2016 6:30 pm

When she was around first time, I used to say, she asks all the right questions but gives all the wrong answers. I suppose that’s better than asking all the wrong questions and getting the wrong answers, which most of the intelligentsia do.
Case in point: They ask (well, they actually don’t, they just skip to the wrong answer), will the climate get so hot we all BUUURRRRNNN?! But the right question is: Since the planet has greened by 11% in 28 years, feeding 600 million people and countless wildlife while CO2 has increased due to human emissions, according to our own CSIRO, precisely in accord with thousands of peer-reviewed studies showing that CO2 vastly promotes plant growth, would it not be reckless to risk reversing that happy development on the basis of unproven theories?
But now she has a genuine scientist on her team, she might be getting at least some of the right answers to the right questions.

observa
July 5, 2016 9:50 pm

We all need to appreciate the author of the title piece and the rats nest of lefties that now inhabit Latrobe calling itself a university (well named because they’re the antithesis of diversity nowadays)
http://latrobe.academia.edu/LizConor
With that CV you can see why Liz is somewhat apopleptic over Pauline holding up a mirror to her, bearing in mind LaTrobe women can be found hanging around in public toilets conducting their important research –
http://www.news.com.au/national/academic-toilet-paper-opens-doors-on-dunny-business/story-e6frfkvr-1226266176545

observa
July 5, 2016 10:11 pm

And these compassionatte airheads wonder why on their fat taxpayer salaries and conditions, crawling back into the safety of their leafy burbs at night and protected by their RE prices from the outcomes of their policies, Pauline represents the outrage of the battlers and hoi polloi that have to suffer them? Duh!

KenB
July 5, 2016 11:33 pm

Just my observation. Pauline Hanson was a hardworking woman in a Fish and Chip Shop, she related well with her customers, listened to what they had to say and understood what they were concerned about, unlike many politicians at the time.
Her customers liked her and listening gave her an insight into what the average ordinary Australians were saying, she took those concerns into the Liberal party and in trying to articulate the concerns expressed by her customers, she ran into trouble with the PC Brigade and was chucked out of the Liberal Party (a conservative party in Australia) but became an independent.
Not a good speaker but was raising things that others (from all sections of Australian society) wanted to see addressed. The liberals mounted a smear campaign against her and looked for anything that could brings her down, and aided by the media she was eventually jailed on what could be said to be trumped up charges but she was finally cleared on appeal.
She is a very determined person almost obsessed with honesty and truth, and so easy for the clever media to get her to say something not PC but truly a representation of what people in the community were telling her.
It is amazing that she was strong enough to come back into politics 18 years later and both the Liberal and Labor parties are scared that she will again capture the central conservative voice of the community and the greens and the PC brigade of the Media want to silence her – How dare she raise issues of concerns contrary to their elitist dictates!
Her latest success is due to the replacement of Tony Abbott an elected Prime Minister, with an unelected elitist who knows he is better educated and more financially secure than most conservative voters and families in Middle Australia.
He Turnbull or more well known as Turncoat was disliked for his earlier flirtation with Green idea of a Carbon Tax and wish to make Australia a Republic – on both issues he failed. Bed wetters in the party worried that Abbott was too hardline and they might lose the additional seats that he had gained in a landslide rout of Labor.
Mark Textor their campaign director could not care less about losing conservative votes, as he contemptuously said these “rusted on voters” had nowhere to go – and they went in droves, refused to contribute to the party and voted for “Others” like One Nation, Pauline Hanson,s party.
The main thing that she wants is to give ordinary Australians a voice and the right to have their concerns heard and openly discussed and it is the racist greens and dictator like so called progressives, that want to deny any Australian the right to question or say anything they don’t approve of. A form of censorship while they can say the most outrageous things.
The hate media is gearing up again for their smearing assault and every lie they can produce. I wish I had voted for her and her party, I gave the others one last chance, but if they fail to listen to the lesson of this diminution of the party vote and also listen to the conservatives in their party, my vote will be gone forever..

Reply to  KenB
July 6, 2016 6:29 pm

Ken B on Pauline Hanson
———————————-
You say the Pauline Hanson ‘ … is a very determined person almost obsessed with honesty and truth,..’
I agree that she is very determined and describes herself as being about ‘honesty’ and ‘truth’. I met her some years ago when she visited my local pub during her then unsuccessful campaign for the Senate. I spoke only briefly to her as I disagree with most of her publically expressed opinions. But others spoke to her. She was present for a couple of hours and engaged in long conversations. She was described afterwards by some of those who met her to be a pleasant person.
Clearly she is ‘scrubber’ or ‘bogan’ [being Australian derogatory expressions for a person who is poorly educated and possessing an overly simplistic conservative view of the world]. She believes what people tell her and exercises no independent quality control because she is not smart enough to smell b-s- when she sees/hears it. A good example is her belief that vaccination causes autism and/or cancer. She has been told this by a number of people and believes it to be true. A member of her extended family has recently produced a child which will not be vaccinated against the standard childhood diseases. Ms Hanson approves and says that if she was to have her four children over again none would be vaccinated. She is impervious to the careful medical research findings which demonstrate this view to be dangerously false.
So her ‘truth’ can be a curious ‘truth’.
As to her ‘honesty’ I have no opinion. She was convicted of electoral fraud in connection with her ‘One Nation’ party and was imprisoned. The conviction was reversed on appeal to the Queensland Court of Appeal and she was released. So speaking legalistically it can be said she was not dishonest during that particular episode.
This can be distinguished from the case of Hillary Clinton, the FBI and the Secretary of State emails. In that case the FBI has said that the evidence is such that a court would be unlikely to convict so the FBI will not lay charges – i.e. there is evidence of wrongdoing but it is insufficient to lay charges. Does that establish that Mrs Clinton is generally honest or at least honest on the emails issue??

KenB
Reply to  Jim Hutchison
July 7, 2016 7:09 am

Unfortunately the term Bogan or scrubber can be applied to a lot of ordinary members of the community, and it is a bit elitist in my humble opinion. And this is also indicative of all that is wrong in politics today. I have met many brilliant people over my lifetime and also many would be could be’s who think that they are intellectually above others and they often use those terms to put down some as inferior (in their opinion) or dismiss their ideas.
I find that if you really take the time and converse with them, even the ones that you may be biased about because someone or the media told you something and you believe it, which is why propaganda works so well.
Especially with those who start from the “I am better than that person” and then proceed to label them and collect all sorts of information as “fact” to reinforce the applied opinion or label, you might find that those you tend to put down are more morally honest and can spot a fraud or charlatan and read accurately the political BS that concerns the general community much better than some of the superficial elites who live and move in different worlds.
Refreshingly I also find that there are very well educated people who have the gift of understanding and compassion while conversing with ordinary people and understanding them. Maybe the thing is to try and walk in the other persons shoes for a while to understand them better.
Personally I tend to treat everyone as an equal or as I would like others to treat me, and form their own opinion on what we see and hear ourselves while trying to create a pen picture of the person for others to consider..
Finally in regard to persons who have the power to avoid any form of Justice because of the powerful position they occupy to the point that the law considers they are above or somehow must be excused for things that other ordinary mortals would be dealt with quite severely (The higher the office the more integrity required, among other things). Justice is often left to a certain kharma, or whatever it is in life that catches up with such persons, and strangely that does seem to be a leavening agent as time passes, at least in my experience. . They tend to reap what they deserve.
I think we as a community would rather that laws are applied without fear or favour by those that are charged with the duty to administration the law, lest those laws be corrupted..
Just saying…

Reply to  Jim Hutchison
July 7, 2016 12:09 pm

You can “believe”, in very simple elementary-school terms what you will about HRC and the email affair, but a more studied ‘adult’ reading of the politics involved reveals that a LOT of people, including Comey, wanted NOTHING to do with indicting the first (presumptive) female presidential nominee.
Can you imagine the write-up in the history books – and the pummeling Comey would take – were he to recommend or prefer a litany of charges?
Well, maybe you can’t …

Simon
July 5, 2016 11:36 pm

So the politicians supporting the concept of the potential for serious issues ahead if we are not careful with greenhouse gases includes numerous highly respected world leaders…… The side denying the issue includes….. Pauline Hanson. I can see why the AGW team is shaking in their boots. She’s all quality.

Alan Ranger
July 6, 2016 1:35 am

This may be the only potentially good result to come from this election. Pauline Hanson is a bit of a way-out Sarah Palin type, but she does serve a valuable purpose. When she was last in parliament, she forced the major parties to address the elephants in the room – those major issues which we just don’t even mention lest we soil our veil of political correctness. Things like the abject failure of our “multicultural melting pot”. Now both major parties, together with the “also ran” Greens have CAGW agendas and some form of disastrous ETS or carbon tax (as dictated previously by the Greens and friends when they held the balance of power) as a possibility pending. I would welcome ANY intervention on this madness.
The other good result (for me) is final confirmation in what I feared for a long time – an explanation of why our political parties are at the nadir of capability and competence. They say you get the government you deserve. When an incumbent government can be nearly toppled because the opposition came up with a quick & dirty cheap “scare”, which was quickly dispelled as such even by their left-wing media buddies, but people still bought into it, there is only one explanation – the Australian electorate comprises a substantial proportion of just plain dumb people. If Lenin were around today he’d be saying, “Where were all these useful idiots when I needed them!”

saveenergy
July 6, 2016 2:14 am

higley7
You say – “Islam is not a true religion as it controls almost all behaviors of the individual and makes the individual subservient to their god. That defines a cult. And, as Islam comes with a civic plan for a theocracy with plans for world domination and validates slavery, murder, rape, or oppression of all non-Muslims (infidels) and non-Quran-adherent Muslims. Children and women are chattel who can be abused, maimed or killed, all in name of their “religion.” No religion can be considered acceptable when it places such a low value on human life, let alone the lives of its own members.”
Agreed…. exactly like Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, et al.
Every religion/ belief system (there’s more than 4,000) in the world, depends on what YOU bring to it; If YOU are a violent person then, your Christianity, your Hinduism, your Islam, your Judaism, your cult, is going to be violent.”
It’s a fundamental problem with all deeply held belief systems (including CAGW ).

Reply to  saveenergy
July 6, 2016 2:36 pm

“Agreed…. exactly like Christianity, Hinduism, Judaism, et al.”
Uhhh … wrongo. Islam establishes a political system, Christianity does not, Remember the passage “Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar’s, and unto God that which is God’s”? (Mark 12:17)
No parallel in Islam. Don’t know about Hinduism. Judaism is Old Testament compliant.

saveenergy
Reply to  _Jim
July 6, 2016 4:44 pm

• Jim, you may like to read up on religious history
Religions – Have prophets, high priests to control almost all behaviors of the individual and make the individual subservient to their god, which in turn drives the society in a particular way; that is a political system.
( for Christianity it was kick started by Constantine at The Council of Nicaea AD 325)
Christianity sees itself as ‘The One True Faith’& they ruthlessly exterminated other religious beliefs, with only Judaism being permitted to co-exist on the margins.
In AD 392 Emperor Theodosius wrote –
We command that those persons shall embrace the name of Catholic Christians. The rest, however, whom We adjudge demented and insane, shall sustain the infamy of heretical dogmas, their meeting places shall not receive the name of churches, and they shall be smitten first by divine vengeance and secondly by the retributions of Our own initiative, which We shall assume in accordance with the divine judgment.
We command that all their fanes, temples, and shrines, if even now any remain entire, shall be destroyed by the command of the magistrates, and shall be purified by the erection of the sign of the venerable Christian religion.
This resulted in further legislation, culminating in the death penalty for non-Christians in 435.
Between 429 and 439 about 150 different laws were passed defining and defending the “Catholic faith.” Church lands became exempt from taxation and bishops became immune to any sort of secular oversight or punishment.
Have you never read the bible or the torah ?? some extreme violence promoted there – murder, genocide, ethnic cleansing, enslavement, mutilation, child rape …..
A taster –
http://skepticsannotatedbible.com/cruelty/ot_list.html
•’Compel people to come in!’ By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to the Son. Luke 14:23
•‘The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open.” (Hosea 13:16)
•”Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.” (Ephesians 5:22-24)
•”Let the women learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in silence. For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” (I Timothy 2:11-14)
Sounds similar to some of the Qur’an teachings.
See this fine explanation of religion

Reply to  _Jim
July 7, 2016 11:57 am

You misconstrue and conflate, it would appear, on so many fronts (and maybe even make a few things things up as necessary) … good luck in life and stay far away from me.
Selective quote mining and setting up the perfect “prosecutor’s case” is an old trick, too.
And, recall: “C onspiracy theories are the favored tools of the weak minded” which I think may also apply to you, in a limited fashion, as compared to the more whacked-out conspiracists who on occasion post here.
BTW, your post is reminiscent of a couple of other conspiracists who used to post here, one named Gail Combs who has a similar hair-on-fire, “coat-racking” (trying to solve all the world’s ills in one post) posting style.

saveenergy
Reply to  _Jim
July 7, 2016 12:51 pm

Jim,
Let me select another quote,…of yours – “Uhhh … wrongo”
I think it was you who first selected the (Mark 12:17) quote to make your point !!
Do tell us why you think religious history is a conspiracy theory,
Is because it debunks your particular beliefs & takes you from your comfort zone ??

Peter
July 6, 2016 4:12 am

Many of us voters had the choice of either a big spending leftist party with Green policies and a plan to tax pensioners superannuation savings and a big spending leftist party that pretends to be mainstream with Green policies and a plan to tax pensioners superannuation savings.
So a lot of votes went to third parties, however much detested by the MSM, in order to frustrate whichever of the parties get in to Government. I know I did.

L Croin
July 6, 2016 5:47 am

When it comes climate deniers…There’s 122 climate scientists from 22 different countries claiming there is no real climate threat…so are you gonna believe a politician or real scientific research. ..and for Islam just look at Europe or the middle east and tell me that Islamic ways are good for the world…maybe if you want to live back in the 7th century.

Simon
Reply to  L Croin
July 6, 2016 12:04 pm

When it comes climate deniers…There’s 122 climate scientists from 22 different countries claiming there is no real climate threat” So that’s about 1.5% of scientists then.

Reply to  Simon
July 6, 2016 12:20 pm

As Einstein said, it only takes one to be right.

July 6, 2016 1:14 pm

Seems the voters ‘turned the bums out’ last Saturday in AUS – there is a bit about Pauline too, from the Bolt Report:
https://youtu.be/agyU6_6wgjo?t=5

KenB
July 7, 2016 7:15 am

I see my reply to Jim Hutchinson seems to have been delayed.. please advise….

tonyM
July 7, 2016 8:39 am

Pauline Hanson, with limited education, has been capable of running her own small business and sock it to the major parties with her triumph in the elections. That show her to be quite intelligent.
To embrace the position she has on CAGW and challenge the orthodoxy shows a far better understanding of the machinations and implications of this faux science than the major political parties run by lawyers. As leader of her small party it is irrelevant who drafted her party’s agenda on “climate change”; it confirms her intelligence in endorsing it.
An very interesting take on Pauline as a genuine conviction driven person and the implications of her election is given in an article on the ABC Drum (written by a lawyer).
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-07/bradley-why-simply-calling-hanson-racist-doesn't-help/7575596

Zeke
July 7, 2016 11:32 am

I am here in the US, so I have no familiarity with Sen Pauline Hanson, but I read an article which might be helpful to Australians in discerning the difference between individual migration and mass migration.
This is from a speech given by Vaklav Klaus of Czechoslovakia in Africa.

We live in a different world now. We are confronted not just with the old, well-known phenomenon of individual migration but with a conceptually different mass migration. This is something else, not only quantitatively. Many politicians and their fellow travellers in the media and in the academy either do not understand this difference or pretend not to. They try to deal with mass migration as if it was the case of individual migration, which it is not.
I am not an expert on migration, I am an economist, perhaps a social scientist, and until recently – for more than a quarter century – a politician. I have never migrated, I just travelled abroad. Due to it, I know more about Europe than about the rest of the world and have to concentrate on Europe in my today´s remarks. Everything indicates that the new phenomenon of mass migration is more or less a universal one. Europe only makes it – due to its peculiar institutional arrangements – much easier.
The current mass migration into Europe we experience has been caused by several factors. We shouldn´t forget the ongoing globalization processes – starting with the information revolution (the most frequent photo in Europe these days is a Syrian or Iraqi refugee in a boat reaching one of the Greek islands – which means Europe – with the latest model of the most expensive smart phone in his hands) and ending with the revolution in speed and costs of transportation. These two factors contribute to the current scale of migration but they are – in my understanding – not the most important ones. I also do not think that the situation in the countries from which the migrants are coming just now is much worse than in the past.
I consider much more important the radical shift in ideas, and, especially, the widespread acceptance of social arrangements based on the – until very recently non-existent – role of claims or entitlements as means of supporting or even securing the life of an individual or a family. As a consequence of it, people in many unsuccessful, poor and underdeveloped, broken, non-democratic, ungoverned or chaotic countries got the feeling that they have a right to migrate, to depart to more successful, rich, developed, orderly functioning, democratic countries offering generous social benefits to the newcomers.
This change has been based on a totally misconceived interpretation of human rights, on the ideology of humanrightism which is one of the new modern collectivistic and illiberal “isms”. It sent out a wrong signal. We should stress, however, that there does not exist any general unconditional right to migrate – especially not a right to migrate in. To say that is politically incorrect these days, but I am convinced it is correct politically.
That is not all. This is just the supply-side of the whole story. The supply of migrants itself cannot bring about migration. To make mass migration possible, there needs to be also a demand-side. I dare argue that the demand side in this case, in the current migration wave, also exists.
The demand for migrants in spite of all the political rhetoric suggesting the opposite comes these days from Europe. It was, of course, not only the reckless and ill-conceived explicit welcoming gesture made by Angela Merkel and some other leading European politicians in the summer of 2015. It was just the last drop. The European – more implicit than explicit – demand for mass migration has been gradually getting momentum for years and decades. Several distinct, but mutually reinforcing factors have been contributing to it – some of them were ideological, some systemic, some policy-driven. Without giving them any particular order or weight, I offer the following arguments:
1. The modern or post-modern ideological confusion connected with the ideas of multiculturalism, cultural relativism, continentalism (as opposed to the idea of nation-state), human-rightism and political correctness is the principle factor. It destroyed the traditional ways of looking at the organization of human society. It replaced the orientation towards a nation (or a nation-state) with continental or planetary thinking. It proclaimed that diversity is more than social cohesion and homogeneity. It sacrificed civil rights in favour of human rights. It changed the concept of rights from negative to positive ones. It incorporated migration among human rights, etc., etc.;
2. Not less important is the fact that the European (and Western) society has been gradually transformed from a society heralding performance, results and achievements, production, work, to a society based on entitlements. The economic and social policy has switched from the concept of market economy to the concept of social market economy where the adjective social has become more important than the nouns market and economy. Potential migrants understood the importance of this destructive shift very rapidly. They are not coming into Europe as a labour force but as recipients of all kinds of social benefits;
3. There is one additional factor. The original, post-second world war concept of European integration has been transformed by the Maastricht and Lisbon treaties definitely into the concept of unification.

I hope that this is helpful in clarifying how a person who opposes mass migration is not a racist, but is seeing the results of the effects of mass migration, and is beginning the hard task of demonstrating to a recklessly “multi-cultural” generation how mass migration and entitlements are destructive to the nation.
Good luck Sen Hanson!

Zeke
July 7, 2016 11:49 am

Patrick MJD July 5, 2016 at 1:56 am
BTW, it’s not only Muslims that practice this [FGM], some Christians do too.

This is a totally unsupportable statement. There is nothing of this kind of practice in the Churches that believe in Jesus and follow the Scriptures.
However, the Baby Boomer generation certainly is proceeding with its own practice of Female Genital Mutilation. The funding for surgical operations on Indian women to sterilize them is now available through US tax money.
Here is an instance where the Baby Boomers, in an effort to stop the “Population Bomb,” — one of their own favorite scientific theories– have begun to sterilize brown women in Asia. And when the women die from the operation, surgeons and governments claim it was because of “tainted aspirin” given to the women and girls after the operation.
Post-Mortems of Victims Point to Tainted Medication in India Sterilization Deaths
By SUHASINI RAJ and ELLEN BARRYNOV. 13, 2014
“NEW DELHI — Post-mortem examinations of several women who died after surgery at a government sterilization camp last weekend in central India suggest that tainted medications might be to blame, rather than the unsanitary conditions or the assembly-line haste of the operations, a district medical officer said Thursday….
The deaths have drawn international attention to the practice, common in India, of offering women cash and other incentives to be sterilized at “fairs” or “camps” where surgeons operate one after the other on large numbers of patients. At the Saturday fair, a surgeon was reported to have operated 83 times in one day.”
The US is involved by offering quotas and financial rewards to African and Asian countries for sterilization.

saveenergy
Reply to  Zeke
July 7, 2016 3:45 pm

Zeke, you say –
“This is a totally unsupportable statement. There is nothing of this kind of practice in the Churches that believe in Jesus and follow the Scriptures.”
Sorry but only in theory…fact is different
Christian Female Genital Mutilation –
Muslims and Christians practice it, but it is more widely spread in Christian predominated parts of Nigeria. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3507121/
. Contrary to the belief that it is a practice carried out by Muslims only, it is also practiced by Christians and a minority group of Ethiopian Jews. However, FGM is neither mentioned in the Torah, nor in the Gospels, and – like in Islam – bodily mutilation is condemned by both religions. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110570413000258
Eritrea has almost 90 percent female genital mutilation. It’s a Christian country.
Ethiopia has 75 percent female genital mutilation. It’s a Christian country.
http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2014/oct/02/reza-aslan/fact-checking-reza-aslans-retort-bill-maher/
Loads more examples are available.
note: Circumcision of women is not an Islamic rule or permission; rather it was an Arab ritual before Islam.
I do wish people would check facts before posting.