Good afternoon.Pauline Hanson has declared Australia must exist as a “monocultural society” and cannot be multicultural, in her first address to the National Press Club in Canberra.The One Nation leader pledged to axe SBS and overhaul the ABC if she wins the next federal election, including imposing a licence fee for metropolitan households to watch the public broadcaster. Regional services would be protected, she said.She personally attacked a Guardian Australia reporter who asked about Hanson’s daughter working as a senior adviser to New South Wales One Nation senator Sean Bell, despite living and working in Tasmania.During Hanson’s speech, a protest banner briefly appeared behind the podium, reading: “I opposed a pay rise for workers while I took a $100,000 pay rise for myself.”Top news
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