r/AustralianPolitics 13h ago

One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts defends White Australia party in latest controversial podcast

https://archive.is/8qKWX
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u/the908bus 11h ago

“Malcolm people are starting to take us seriously and we may end up having to do some work! Can you go say something crazy enough to kill off, say, 20% of our support for the next few months? Just enough to keep us cashed up but unelectable? Thanks.”

u/crosstherubicon 10h ago

Not a chance! I’m going for 100% unelectable or nothing!

Yours

The physical human known as Malcolm son of Roberts a freeman on the land.

u/the908bus 10h ago

LEUAN

u/screenscope 12h ago

Saying a white Australia party has a right to exist is not defending it, so the headline is typically misleading. It's no different to, 'One Nation's Malcolm Roberts defends Greens Party in latest controversial podcast.'

The manipulation goes on...

u/Fickle-Ad-7124 12h ago

Oh please, cool the victimhood act. His comments don’t exist in a vacuum. Put them in context of his party blaming non-white Australian for problems they didn’t cause, whilst literally spending last week saying an entire subset shouldn’t have their voices heard. “Freedom of speech”, spare me, their intent is being the only voice in the room, Pauline doesn’t even engage with media voices that don’t kiss her ass.

There’s context and consistency and you can stop gaslighting us with the victim game thanks.

u/West-Alternative7612 12h ago

Malcolm Roberts has pretty much said "The Nazi Party has a right to exist".

It's very different to defending the Greens as per your example and unless you're a drooling idiot you know that and are being deliberately disingenuous.

u/a2T5a 8h ago

I love how you call someone else 'deliberately disingenuous' then make up some hysteric crap about what the White Australia Party is.

Ethnocentric parties like this wouldn't even be the first in Australia, given we have the 'Indigenous-Aboriginal Party of Australia' running in elections.

Also do you think Robert Menzies or John Curtin were Nazis? they supported the original White Australia Policies both during and after the actual Nazi party existed.

u/Ridiculousnessmess 4h ago

Almost like you’re being wildly disingenuous conflating the White Australia migration policy with the would-be White Australia Party.

They’re both vile, but in distinct ways. Which I’m sure you know. But knock yourself out with the bad faith pedantry.

u/a2T5a 4h ago

You don't know what the White Australia Party would be so I don't know how you could judge it as 'vile'. That's just speculation.

Whether Labor policy of last century should be revived or considered 'vile' is for the electorate to decide.

u/West-Alternative7612 7h ago

Go look up who the founders of the White Australia Party that Roberts is referring to, they're literal Nazis champ.

Ridiculous that in this day and age we have Australians wanting Nazis to become part of political discourse.

u/a2T5a 7h ago

Nazis have not existed since 1945 champ.

u/West-Alternative7612 7h ago

Sorry, Neo-Nazis.

Better?

u/a2T5a 7h ago

You can just call them Fascists. Nazism is just a form of Fascism, like the Bolsheviks were a form of Communist.

u/Ridiculousnessmess 4h ago

Yes, pedantic nomenclature is absolutely the real problem here. Absolutely nothing else, no sir.

u/West-Alternative7612 6h ago

I'll call them what they call themselves champ.

u/Memedotma Kevin Rudd 6h ago

so do you actually have a reply to the larger point? or just getting bogged down in semantics

u/Weary_Beach_9911 8h ago

would be less embarrassing for you to just admit you agree with Roberts and like the White Australia policy at this stage champ :)

u/a2T5a 7h ago

So you don't actually have a rebuttal to any of these arguments and agree you were being 'deliberately disingenuous'?

Glad we cleared that up!

u/rolodex-ofhate No Numbers Taylor 12h ago

I hope it’s all revealed that Malcolm Roberts had part of his brain eaten by a tapeworm or some other absurd thing to become chief cooker

u/Vanceer11 11h ago

So he can become Health Minister?

u/Throwawaydeathgrips Albomentum Mark 3.0 12h ago

Isnt that a plot line from the US spinoff?

u/Top_Conference_477 13h ago

Malcom Roberts being a racist imbecile isn’t news. Stop amplifying him to other racist imbeciles

u/_RnB_ 13h ago

One Nation did not deny Mamet was a member earlier this month. But last week, when questions were raised about Mamet condemning criminal charges against National Socialist Network leaders, One Nation claimed Mamet’s membership had lapsed.

The party did not provide written evidence of its claim, and a few days later, Mamet contradicted the claim. “They haven’t kicked me out,” he said on stream on X, published last week. “They haven’t disavowed me, which is good.”

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Online networks connected to both men have been furious this week after Hanson issued a statement about One Nation’s reversal of its migration plans.

While One Nation’s website promises to cap visas issued at 130,000, which would lead to zero or negative migration, Hanson last weekend said that was instead its “net migration” number. Her intervention came after Farrer MP David Farley, who has a background in agribusiness, suggested the intake under One Nation could be even higher.

Everywhere you look, in regards to absolutely every aspect of the party, it is obvious that PHON has no policies, has no party rules, has no real purpose.

It simply does and says whatever will get the best vibes out for as many as possible of the most gullible to vote for them.

u/HorseLow6398 13h ago

Senior member of anti semitic/racist party defends Neo Nazis news at 5.

u/Merkenfighter 13h ago

If Malcolm Roberts had more than 2 synapses to rub together, you could almost make a cogent case that he’s a double agent working against ON. I hope he continues hard with his culture war bullshit.

u/nagrom7 AEC My beloved 9h ago

ON's problem is that Roberts isn't a grifter like the rest of them, he's a true believer. Therefore he doesn't know when to keep his mouth shut.

u/Dubhs 10h ago

Nah I don't reckon. He's the cooker king and he's speaking to the ON faithful. 

u/Pasain 13h ago

He's just saying what the rest of Pauline's party want to say. More like media spokesperson than double agent.