Pauline Hanson Is Defending the Reputation of Noted Indigenous Campaigner Pauline Hanson

Famous racist Pauline Hanson has release a Facebook monologue defending her track record on Indigenous Issues. This came after a video was circulated of Gangalidda Elder Murrandoo Yanner telling her she was a "not welcome" at the this year's Cairns Indigenous Art Fair. As Hanson and team left, Yanner was applauded.

In the video, which features her trademarked shaking-like-I'm-literally-about-to-explode oratorical style, Hanson argued that Indigenous artist Ken Thaiday, allegedly supported some of her political policies. Hanson then pleaded with Yanner to work with her on Indigenous issues, saying, "This man stands for a lot of issues that I stand for as well.

But what these shared issues are seem unclear. Hanson noted a shared dislike for politicians between herself and Yanner, and it's true that this might be where they're united. Hanson's anti-establishment views have always been central to her campaign strategies, after being disendorsed by the Liberal party in 1996. (Her statements which were considered too racist for the Howard Government).

Hanson also spoke on the pair's shared mistrust of "the land council," which is a statement that has confused more than a few commentators as Australia currently has more than 26 separate land councils in operation. One of them—the Cape York Land Council—is currently chaired by Mr Yanner.

This isn't the first time Hanson has voiced her mistrust of Indigenous organisations. In a 1997 speech to Parliament, she outlined "the long term goal of the Aboriginal industry is to create a separate indigenous nation within Australia," which Hanson said "the alleged guilty non-Aboriginal Australians will pay for." It is unclear which Aboriginal industrial organisers Hanson is referring to in this quote—possibly Adam Goodes?

Finally, to prove she and Yanner ought to stand as one, Hanson compared herself to Noel Pearson in her opposition to alcohol fueled violence in Aboriginal communities. In fact, Hanson did vocally support the continued existence and protection of remote indigenous communities after Tony Abbott's infamous "lifestyle choices" remark made last year.

Hanson even told NITV, "I think they have used the Aboriginal issue, the politicians, as a political football over the years without really sitting down and talking to the elders and seeing what is best for the Aboriginal people."

On the other hand, Hanson has previously been quoted by indigenous Labor member MP Linda Burney as saying that Aboriginal people "ate their babies at some point in the distant past," so you never really know what you'll get from old Hateful Hanson.

Yet it's not just Hanson's creative interpretation of history and Government that has people puzzled. It's really just her outright inconsistency.

In 2007, sheopposed recognising aboriginal people in the Australian constitution. Actually 10 years before that she had supported repealing the Native Title Act of 1993, criticising the "impractical, discriminatory and stupid notion of land rights and special treatment for so called minorities at the expense of everyone else." During that time, she also stood behind the abolition of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission. Her press release referred to the body as an "Aboriginal Mafia."

Yanner is yet to reply to Hanson's comments, though it's doubtful that the two will really ever get along.

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