One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has gone on a spectacular offensive against the Melbourne residents trapped inside nine housing commission towers, calling them “drug addicts” and saying they should have learnt English before coming to Australia.
show this morning, co-host Ally Langdon put it to the Senator that some of the tower residents hadn’t had a proper meal since Saturday.
Senator Hanson went on to say that an inability to speak English had led to the led to the towers being shut down. “Is the Government worried about the other areas that are shut down? You know, the people in their homes, are they able to actually get out and buy the food as well? There has to be a reason why they have targeted this set of blocks, apartment blocks. Ask that question.”“You know, these people, I saw them taking a truck load of food to them, all the rest of it, if they are from war torn countries, which some of these people are, they know what it is like to be in tough conditions,” she said.
“The fact is that we’re sick and tired of people bleeding bloody hearts out there,” she said. “This is a shutdown because the rest of the state has been locked off from the rest of the country. “Why should we? Why should we put everything out in someone else’s language when you come to Australia,” she said.
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