One Nation stubby holder deliveries branded as 'insensitive'

It's being claimed that Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate threatened to call police after the City of Melbourne stopped more than 100 of Pauline Hanson's One Nation-branded stubby holders being delivered to every apartment in one of Melbourne's locked-down suburban public housing towers in July.

One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson during Senate Business at Parliament House on June 17, 2020 in Canberra, Australia. (Photo by Sam Mooy/Getty Images) Source: Getty Images AsiaPac

The hard lockdown of Melbourne's public housing towers created a powder keg at the height of Victoria’s COVID outbreak - and  Pauline Hanson lit a match. Ms hanson said,"The fact is a lot of them are drug addicts as well, they’re getting their medications, they’re alcoholics they’re being looked after that way." In the days following, One Nation sent 114 branded stubby holders to residents with the slogan “I’ve got the guts to say what you’re thinking”, along with a hand written note saying “no hard feelings”

 

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