Hansonites are amongst us and they vote

February 26, 2026

As much as we might wish to not accept it, the fact is that there are 'people' like Hanson, of the ‘I fear to be in Lakemba’ brigade.

After all, she is a carbon-based life form.

Our multicultural society is, for someone who grew up in the early 1950s when Italians and Greeks were ‘wogs’ and fit only to be employed as manual labourers, a daily joy. Evenings in Lakemba during Ramadan are just a delight – not only for culinary wonderfulness but just as a warm and wonderful evening doing living on the street.

I have a half-Indian grandson and a half-Filipino grandaughter. It offends me greatly that they might ever have to endure the stupidity of a Hansonite or (now) a LNP troglodyte.

And it offends me greatly that a number of politicians currently in power are so bigoted and racist that they employ discriminatory power to suffocate fairness, human decency and the ‘international rule of order’ in order to gain some chimerical political advantage.

Our society is deeply wounded by the sewing of the dragon’s teeth of racism, fascist suppression of free commentary and pro-humanitarian protest.

It may not yet be fatal but it hurts.