Hanson is right about political correctness. It stops us calling her stupid

June 20, 2026 — 7:30am

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Pauline Hanson is right. The woke mind virus has taken over and you can’t say anything in Australia any more. You can’t call climate science a hoax, you can’t call Islam a disease, you can’t call workers lazy, you can’t call Indigenous welfare an industry, and you can’t call female heads of government witches.

Actually, you can, because she just did.

But political correctness is not all bad. It protects Hanson from being called stupid. Some insults are beyond the pale.

Back when Pauline Hanson was representing a few thousand Queensland first preferences, it was common to call her the Oxley moron. Ah, for the long-ago monoculture. Today, if you called her stupid, no matter what the evidence, you would also be insulting the one-third of Australians who are saying they would vote for her. You would probably increase their numbers.

In our public discourse, the unspeakable S-word is not the one Hanson refrained from using when describing multicultural overseas ghettos she thought she had seen in clips on social media. “S-holes,” she said, suffering a sudden attack of reticence. But “shit” is not censored. “Stupid” is.

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Politically, the appearance of brains is poison. Paul Keating, Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull all made themselves unelectable by failing to control their apparent intellect. John Hewson, the human abacus, lost the unlosable election in 1993. He thought it........

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