Pauline Hanson has labelled residents in the nine public housing estate towers 'drug addicts' and 'alcoholics' who can't speak English, in an interview this morning on Channel Nine's Today Show.
Hanson's tirade began after host Alison Langdon discussed the hard lockdowns in public housing estates in Flemington and North Melbourne with the One Nation senator.Le Marquand raised concerns about the dangers of the lockdown administered by Victoria's Premier Daniel Andrews government to the 3,000 residents in the public housing towers."The fact is that a lot of them are drug addicts," Hanson said.
Hanson referenced the Victorian government's financial assistance of a one-off $1,500 payment for residents under lockdown in the public housing towers to aid those who cannot leave for work. "If they're from war-torn countries, which some of these people are, they know what it's like to be in tough conditions," Hanson said.There have been vocal critics of the decision Nine's Today Show made to invite Hanson on to speak about this topic on the program.
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