They didn’t - last time. He got something like 19 first preference votes in his own right, and got into the senate on Hanson’s preferences.
He’s obviously made the calculation that in order to stand out from the crowd and make his own reputation separate to Hanson’s, a viable marketing angle is ‘I’m the guy who hates muslims even MORE than Hanson does!’ and say outrageous stuff to get his head on the news, in the hopes that it’ll score him just enough racist votes to stay in power. He only needs, what, 14% of queensland or something like that?
The line that Sky News people are going with so far seems to be a regretful tone of “this is the sort of tragedy that happens when people believe their views on immigration are not being listened to”
“The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun” — it’s stopped and the brownies didn’t shoot back, so it’s pretty obvious who the bad guys were…
Jacinda Adern has made a very strong point that a number of the perpetrators were Australian. And seem to alude to this ideology of White Supremism is accepted in Australia via policy and media.
While I understand the hurt going on I don’t think her saying that right now is helpful. Gun control is also an issue involved, theirs is a little watered down.
If any of our (Murdoch) media do an Anning and try to victim blame, I am going to ‘letter-to-the-editor’ like a pensioner on speed. Fark allowing the OZ Murdoch media (sky, News, Bolt etc) surreptitiously make that sh*t OK here like they’ve been allowed to do in the US.