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Butler also condemned Hanson’s decision to appear on a podcast hosted by a convicted criminal. double quotation markI’m loath to respond to a podcast between Ms Hanson and this convicted criminal, who frankly has been disowned by so many leading figures on the right. The Karl Stefanovic guest who has cost Australia’s famed TV host his jobRead moreShareUpdated at 18.21 EDT
- ▪Butler also condemned Hanson’s decision to appear on a podcast hosted by a convicted criminal. double quotation markI’m loath to respond to a podcast between Ms Hanson and this convicted criminal, who frankly has been disowned by so many le
- ▪The Karl Stefanovic guest who has cost Australia’s famed TV host his jobRead moreShareUpdated at 18.21 EDT
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18.02 EDTMark Butler ridicules Pauline Hanson’s NDIS claims on far-right activist’s podcastThe One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, has been criticised after travelling overseas and appearing on a podcast with the far-right UK activist Tommy Robinson.During the episode, released on Friday morning, Hanson makes claims that “Muslim streets” have “quite a lot of people on the NDIS”.But the federal NDIS minister, Mark Butler, has hit back: double quotation markI‘m not sure where Ms Hanson is getting her figures from, but they’ve never been provided to me as the minister for disability and the minister for the NDIS. I suspect they don’t exist. Butler also condemned Hanson’s decision to appear on a podcast hosted by a convicted criminal.
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