One of the major reasons the political and media establishment in Australia hate Pauline Hanson so much is that she has a habit of saying what the rest of Australia is thinking. And the rest of Australia frequently thinks things that establishment cannot and will not tolerate.
When Hanson wore a burqa into the Senate, the great and good of the elite were horrified – and ordinary Australians cheered. Now, as Australia (like the rest of the world) is hammered by the fear of the Chinese virus, Hanson is once again saying what everyone else is thinking: time to tell China to go to hell.
When the dust settles, Australia needs a serious rethink of how we progress the growth of our nation and pay back what will likely be one trillion dollars of debt.
The coronavirus may well be the excuse for a global economic collapse, but the course set by consecutive governments and a host of Prime Ministers here in Australia left us teetering on the verge of a recession years ago.
Coronavirus is the final push that has seen Australian markets crash and panic buying begin in our supermarkets.
Australia’s economy is exposed as a result of an over-reliance on Chinese manufacturing and dependence on China as a destination for our food and mineral exports.
Now, it is safe to say, the lives of our citizens are exposed.
By refusing to take the appropriate steps required to prevent the evolution and spread of COVID19 coronavirus, China has put all human life, worldwide at risk.
China must be called out and any attempts to attack or criticise people for referring to COVID19 as a “Chinese virus” should be pushed back on.
As Hanson says, a communist regime which monitors its citizens’ every move and every word on social media refused to crack down on wet markets – even though its own scientists had repeatedly warned that they were a “time bomb”.
Australia has sanctions against many foreign nations for engaging in activities deemed to be inappropriate. North Korea, Iran, Libya, Syria, Zimbabwe, Russia, and Myanmar are just a few we have taken autonomous sanctions against, let alone those UNSC sanctions we also support[…]
As a result of this latest pandemic, it can no longer be argued that China, by allowing deadly viruses to evolve and transmit within its borders, is unaware of the dangers they are subjecting the rest of the world to.
The British government, for one, is reportedly furious about China’s lies and “predatory offers of help”: “It is going to be back to the diplomatic drawing board after this. Rethink is an understatement”, according to one government source. “There has to be a reckoning when this is over”, said another.
At the very least, China must be diplomatically isolated as a rogue regime. Even better, Beijing should be forced to pay financially for what it has done.
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