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Please explain!

August 24th, 2003 at 6:07 pm by David Farrar

There appears to be a lot of misplaced sympathy in Australia for Pauline Hanson over her three year jail term for electoral fraud.

I think the term is highly appropriate, not so much for what effectively was the theft of $500,000, but because the fraud basically led to a diferent electoral result than would otherwise have been the case. This is a more subtle form of stealing or rigging an election, and in a democracy such behaviour has to be met with a very stiff deterent.

Let’s face it, I doubt any politican after this is now going to lie over their membership numbers in order to get funding.

Now if only it was a criminal act to pass a special law to re-elect one of your mates who has lost his seat!

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One Response to “Please explain!”

  1. GPT Says:
    August 24th, 2003 at 8:08 pm

    It is difficult to have any sympathy for that women at all! She really should have stuck to fish and chips.

    I doubt the sympathisers would be quite so sympathetic if the spin was stealing $500,000 of taxpayers money.

    I’m sure that Ms Hansen will have a lovely time in prison…

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