Keating on Hanso
11 November, 1996
The great tragedy of the shamelessly regressive politics of Pauline Hanson is not so much that it is rooted in ignorance, prejudice and fear, though it is; not so much that it projects the ugly face of racism, though it does; not so much that it is dangerously divisive and deeply hurtful to many of her fellow Australians, though it is; not even that it will cripple our efforts to enmesh ourselves in a region wherein lie the jobs and prosperity of future generations of young Australians, though it will-the great tragedy is that it perpetrates a myth, a fantasy, a lie.
The myth of the monoculture.
The lie that we can retreat to it.
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