Hot on the heels of Senator Fatima Payman being labelled by our ever-prescient media “the Pauline Hanson of the left”, the moral panic triggered by Payman’s defection from the Labor Party has coalesced into two fears: “identity politics” (which will be the death of all of us) and the unique risk that Muslims apparently pose for our perfectly secular social contract.
All the bed-wetting over this predicted eruption of sectarianism triggered a distant memory: it was Hanson who warned us!
Hanson’s inaugural speech, on her return to Parliament as a senator in 2016, rang
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