Pauline Hanson's Fiery Press Club Address & Fixing Australia’s Biggest Police Force
6/17/202611 min
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- Pauline Hanson calls for ‘monocultural’ Australia as protesters disrupts her Press Club Debut
- Counter-terrorism funding to be revealed at Royal Commission into anti-Semitism
- Qantas has announced it will begin direct flights between Sydney and London from October 2027
- Prince Harry planning to return to the UK with both of his children next month
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First 90 secondsTaylor Strano· Host0:00
There's just so much- You're listening to a Mamamia podcast. [upbeat music] Good morning. I'm Taylor Strano with the latest from the Quickie Newsroom. In today's episode, the woman tasked with fixing Australia's biggest police force, and we look at why our modern social lives feel so exhausting, plus the rule that could help. Before we get there, here's your news headlines for Thursday, June 18. Pauline Hanson has called for migrants to assimilate into a monocultural Australia in a wide-ranging speech, also targeting rising social inequity and a litany of culture war issues. Addressing the National Press Club for the first time in her 30-year political career, the One Nation leader promised to boost regulation of AI, abolish SBS, and slash taxpayer funds to the ABC. Senator Hanson spoke about the housing crisis and immigration levels, pledging to restrict migration from places immersed in extremism, like radical Islam. But the speech was interrupted by a banner being slowly unfurled onto the stage that read, "I oppose a pay rise to workers." Chief Executive of political activist group GetUp, Paul Ferris, claimed responsibility for the stunt. Pointing to One Nation's rise in the polls, the firebrand senator says growing discontent with the status quo was behind the shift in the political landscape. Evidence about counter-terrorism