It is eminently understandable that an Indigenous leader, Murrandoo Yanner, yelled abuse at Ms Hanson when she arrived unannounced, with a film crew from a Nine Network TV program, 60 Minutes, at the Cairns Indigenous Art Fair on Saturday. Ms Hanson and Nine would have known the move was provocative and disingenuous. After all, Ms Hanson has form; in her first tilt at federal politics more than 20 years ago, she was dumped by the Liberal Party for comments she made about Indigenous people.
.@PaulineHansonOz: Can you please explain what constitutes a religion and a cult with respect to Islam? #QandA https://t.co/Nz9HKcd12s — ABC Q&A (@QandA) 18 July 2016
Undeterred she stood and won as an independent. In her first speech, she said: "I am fed up to the back teeth with the inequalities that are being promoted by the government and paid for by the taxpayer under the assumption that Aboriginal people are the most disadvantaged people in Australia."
