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Hanson has perfected a three-step playbook and Liberals played into it
Key takeaways
- One Nation leader Pauline Hanson likened her vision of a "monocultural" Australia to the Socceroos this week.
- Not a single millimetre of Canberra-based navel went ungazed-upon.
- Asked for his "yay or nay" on a monoculture, Nationals leader Matt Canavan confessed that he'd "never heard of it before, really, until last week", but he didn't like the sound of it.
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson likened her vision of a "monocultural" Australia to the Socceroos this week. (ABC News: Matt Roberts)
Link copied Share Share article We've come a long way since it was Pauline Hanson who didn't know the meaning of big words.
When the Preferred Prime Minister (patent pending) bowled up her prescription at the Press Club that Australia should really be a "monoculture", she triggered a national bout of semantic debate so farcical that it could absolutely work as a Christmas pantomime or interpretive dance. "Please Explain: The Monoculture Remix, feat. Karl Stefanovic!"
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