The Matildas should stick to playing soccer and represent all Australians at the Tokyo Olympics instead of using the event as a platform for the politics of division.
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said an official photo of Australia’s Olympic women’s soccer team posing with the indigenous flag was a slap in the face to all Australians.
“Athletes in the Australian Olympic team are there representing all Australians on the biggest of international stages,” Senator Hanson said. “Indigenous flags don’t represent all Australians. There’s only one flag which truly represents all of us.
“Taxpayers don’t shell out millions of dollars to send Olympic teams to represent two nations. We’re one nation, Australia, indigenous and non-indigenous alike.
“I think a lot of Australians are sick and tired of athletes and celebrities hijacking platforms to make token PC gestures that only inflame division. Australians are sick and tired of their favourite sports being ruined by politics.
“Australians supporting their Olympic team deserve an explanation from the Australian Olympic Committee, and I’m sure they want to know what the Prime Minister has to say about it too.”
 

 THE TRUTH ABOUT THE SYDNEY LOCKDOWN

By One Nation NSW Leader Mark Latham MLC
 

For 18 months the NSW Government has told us it always follows “the health advice” with its lockdowns and other anti-COVID measures.
But now the truth is out there. For the first time in Australian history, the building and construction industry has ben closed down, freezing 250,000 jobs in Sydney and surrounds, costing $1 billion a week. The damage is huge, especially in Western Sydney and regions like the Central Coast where tens of thousands of tradies live.
The NSW Chief Health Officer, Kerry Chant, has said she gave no advice for this decision. Chant only advises about community mobility issues, leaving industry closure decisions to Government Ministers. It was a decision of the Premier and her Ministers to close down building and construction.
Yet we know in NSW that there hasn’t been a single outdoors Covid transmission. Many construction sites are outdoors or, in partly built structures, have ample fresh air ventilation. Not even Victoria in its Stage 4 lockdowns closed down construction.
For 18 months building and construction have been the backbone of our economy, with other closures (hospitality, retail etc) hitting hard. There has ben no problem in this industry, certainly no list of infection cluster sites.
The NSW Government never releases its ‘health advice’. It never conducts or publishes research on the health consequences of economic lockdowns: mental health problems, family breakdown, loneliness, social isolation etc.
For 18 months we have been run from a single policy-making perspective: if the government sees an infection, its instinct has been to close everything down. This has been evidence-free, disproportionate decision making.
Lockdowns should be targeted tightly, as they were earlier this year in the Northern Beaches of Sydney. If the problem has been the Eastern and inner Western Suburbs of Sydney, as it has been, then those areas should be targeted.
But right now in NSW, the lockdowns apply to whole regions surrounding Sydney with no Covid circulating in the community. Look at the Central Coast, Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains, Wollondilly, Wollongong and Shellharbour. They have the double whammy of being locked down with no active Covid and the closure of their all-important construction industries.
They are being punished for the sins of Fairfield, and they are not even part of Sydney.
It’s a disgrace.
Let me assure you, NSW One Nation will continue to argue for better targeted, more proportional, evidence-based policies on this issue. The Labor Opposition is silent but we are speaking out, especially in defence of jobs.

The importance of immigrants needing to learn English before they are granted Australian citizenship has been underlined by the latest bungle which saw three men travel from Sydney to regional New South Wales while positive with COVID-19.
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said the incident, in which three removal contractors travelled through western NSW while waiting for the results of a COVID test, highlighted the need for Australian citizenship to be contingent on having a sufficient command of the English language.
“The language barrier has been used as an excuse for these removalists taking COVID-19 into western NSW,” Senator Hanson said. “It’s just not good enough. What’s the bet none of these Iraqi immigrants were students of the Adult Migrant English Program provided free by the Australian taxpayer?
“If an immigrant’s English isn’t good enough for them to follow simple instructions to isolate until their COVID test results come in, how can we expect them to be able to integrate into our society and economy so they can contribute?
“I raised this issue at the start of the Melbourne outbreak last year. It got me banned from breakfast television, but politically-correct attempts to silence me haven’t made the issue go away. It’s a very real problem but it can be fixed.
“This is why I’ve tried to strengthen the requirements for citizenship with legislation in the Senate, including the need to be more competent in English. It’s a win for everyone. Being competent in English removes a major barrier to employment and education for an immigrant to Australia, meaning less support is needed from Australian taxpayers.
“And incidents like this could be more readily avoided.”
Senator Hanson said Australia was more accurately referred to as a multi-racial nation instead of a multicultural nation.
“We can’t acknowledge multiculturalism in Australia without supporting cultural language and making exceptions in law at everyone else’s expense,” she said. “Poor English as an excuse for spreading COVID isn’t an exception we can accept.”