Australia news live: Hanson attacks renewables, multiculturalism and ABC in Press Club speech interrupted by banner stunt

‘We cannot be a multicultural society’: Hanson Hanson says Australia must be “monocultural” and calls multiculturalism a “failed policy”. She tells the press club that according to the 2021 census, 23% of people in Australia spoke a language other than English at home – the most common being Mandarin and Arabic. She asks how Australia can “generate social cohesion if people can’t speak the language?” (Might point out here that just because a different language is spoken at home, doesn’t mean the person can’t speak multiple languages.) Hanson says: double quotation mark At the centre of this crisis is the utterly flawed policy of multiculturalism. We cannot be a multicultural society. We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural. Australians must live under the one cultural umbrella. Hanson particularly targets Muslims. She points to the Bondi terror attack and the return of women and children from Syrian detention camps as events that have led to One Nation’s support sky rocketing. double quotation mark I am not frightened and nor is One Nation. There is no room for hate preachers in this country.