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It’s the fight that dominated parliament this week – and is still going – with Andrew Hastie this morning challenging Pauline Hanson to explain her stance on executing prisoners on the battlefield.
A brief recap: Hastie has this week feuded with the One Nation leader over a cartoon video by the party released in late July that calls the former SAS captain a “traitor” after he gave evidence against Ben Roberts-Smith in his failed defamation trial.
“I’ve copped it for the last six months, and sometimes you just got to draw a line in the sand, because weakness is provocative. People want strength. These guys thought I was weak …
I’ve always been respectful of Pauline. I’ve tried to build a relationship with her in the past, and it’s been good. And then she came for me and I started to see, OK, this is not the person I thought she was. And now she’s my political opponent, and she started a fight, and I intend to win it.”
I think the Greens and I agree on the fact that this is about changing the behaviour of big tech, and ultimately this is about the social licence, and no particular figure that we mandate in Australia is going to be enough for the world’s richest companies.
It’s got to be about what incentivises the change in behaviour and what gives them back the social licence that they are losing in Australia.”
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