Pauline Hanson has taken a savage swipe at the Indigenous Voice to Parliament campaign and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.
The One Nation leader, who is vehemently opposed to the Voice, has released a new book titled ‘Reasons To Vote For Albanese’s Voice’.
The joke is that the book is full of blank pages, signifying, she said, the lack of information from Mr Albanese on the Voice.
‘The biggest decision that’s facing Australians at the moment is whether you’re going to vote Yes or No for the Voice,’ she said in a video posted to Twitter on Sunday.
‘Let me inform you about something. You can buy a house, your dream home, you can get married. You can get out of both of those.
Pauline Hanson has taken a savage swipe at the Indigenous Voice to Parliament campaign and Anthony Albanese (pictured with his partner Jodie Haydon)
The One Nation leader (pictured) has released a book revealing why Aussies should vote Yes, with a tongue-in-cheek jibe
‘But I’ll tell you what. If you vote Yes for the Voice, you’re not going to be able to get out of it, because you would have enshrined it forever in the constitution.
‘And in doing that, you allow the government of the day, including Anthony Albanese, to draw up legislation and put whatever they want into it because you’ve given them the authority to do it.’
Ms Hanson said she had brought out the book because there should be ‘comprehensive’ information from both sides of the debate.
The subtitle on the book’s cover said it’s ‘a very comprehensive guide to all the details Anthony Albanese has provided about his Voice’.
Smiling at the camera, Ms Hanson then said, ‘Let’s have a look’ and flicked through the book, which is empty page after empty page after empty page.
‘Nothing!,’ she said. ‘That’s right. Because (Mr Albanese) hasn’t provided any details. He won’t answer you. (But Indigenous activist) Thomas Mayo does.
‘(Mr Mayo) wants you to know it’s about reparations, about rent.
‘”We’re actually going to punish the politicians who don’t listen to us and do what we say”,’ she said, pretending to be Mr Mayo.
‘”Is Australia Day on the hit list? Oh yes, you better believe it, it is”,’ she continued, again pretending to be the activist, who has himself written a book on the Voice.
Ms Hanson then returned to being herself and got serious.
‘And if you think I’m taking the p*** out of Anthony Albanese our PM, you bet I am.
‘Because like I said, this is the most important decision that we will have to make in our time and probably future generations (on) the impact it will have on our country, our democracy, our freedom and just treating all Australians as equals.’
The federal senator then revealed that the book is real, even if its concept is a joke, and that it is being sold on the One Nation website as a fundraiser.
She said buying the book ‘does help our campaign in the No vote’.
The One Nation leader slammed the Voice as ‘divisive’ and claimed the advisory body would not help Indigenous communities during a speech in the Senate on Monday.
In March, Thomas Mayo (pictured right) stood shoulder to shoulder with a tearful Anthony Albanese (centre) as the official wording of the referendum question was announced
Pauline Hanson’s new book (cover pictured) – in which every page is blank – is now available
Pauline Hanson has included a spoiler alert in her latest tweet (pictured) about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament referendum
At the beginning of her speech, Senator Hanson spoke about the arrival of the First Fleet and British convicts who were sent to Australia against their will, largely for committing petty crimes.
‘This nation was founded on the Westminster of government after it was settled by the English,’ she said.
‘Yes, we all acknowledge there were other people (here) at the time in this nation, but it has been on the backbone of, as people say, the colonists, the convicts, the people who came here.
‘Many (were) dragged here from England, and other places, against their will. They were the stolen generation as well.’
The ‘Stolen Generations’ is a term used to describe the children of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders who were removed from their families by colonial-era governments, and state and Federal governments through to the 1970s.
Senator Hanson went on to say in her speech that ‘many atrocities have happened’ which had been ‘acknowledged’.
‘Our country has grown with parliamentary system that was started, the same system in England, with the parliament, with people elected based on their dedication, passion, those people wanting to make changes for the better of this country,’ she said.
‘Those opportunities have been forward to anyone, whether it be people born here, migrants, refugees, and even the indigenous Australian.’
She added: ‘To say that they’ve never had a voice is, is truly untrue. It’s not the truth.’
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