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Rightward grift Senator Pauline Hanson won’t ever let a chance to boost funds cross her by — whether or not it’s hand-knitted jumpers to pay for her courtroom prices, posters of her cleansing the Australian flag (hella symbolic), or simply so she will preserve stopping the apparently imminent renaming of milk. Her love of merch extends to freebies, like sending a stack of stubby holders to the largely Muslim inhabitants of a housing tower, who she’d beforehand referred to as “alcoholics”.
However on the subject of clear grift, it’s arduous to go previous promoting clean books for the diminished worth of $15. The One Nation web site is promoting Causes to Vote for Albanese’s Voice by Pauline Hanson, a e book that’s — spoiler warning — fully clean, proof that Hanson’s jokes are higher when she’s paying another person to put in writing them.
The blurb states: “Similar to Albanese’s race-based Voice for Canberra, this e book comprises no particulars and each web page is clean”, earlier than noting “Anthony Albanese’s proposed race-based Voice to Parliament just isn’t solely divisive but additionally poses important dangers. Until Australians vote in opposition to it, the implications will likely be everlasting”.
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