{"id":479,"date":"2016-07-06T11:42:36","date_gmt":"2016-07-06T01:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/103.227.176.13\/~delahoy\/craig.delahoy.net\/myblog\/?p=479"},"modified":"2016-07-06T18:57:14","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T08:57:14","slug":"pauline-hansons-full-wishlist-of-royal-commissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.delahoy.net\/myblog\/pauline-hansons-full-wishlist-of-royal-commissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson&#8217;s full wishlist of Royal Commissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since the side-splitting Australian federal election\u00a0and the return of Pauline Hanson as leader of the Australian One Nutter Party, we&#8217;ve heard about only one of the Royal Commissions she wants to see established &#8211; her cherished Royal Commission into whether or not Islam is a religion. She hasn&#8217;t yet released her full wishlist of desired Royal Commissions, so here&#8217;s a quick run-down of the Royal Commissions Pauline will be pushing for, for those who haven&#8217;t been paying attention.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What&#8217;s really causing rising sea levels and global temperature rises (because we know there&#8217;s no such thing as\u00a0global warming or climate change, so it must be something Asian, and don&#8217;t you be telling me that it&#8217;s just Joe Hockey going for a swim).<\/li>\n<li>The true shape of the earth (because it&#8217;s obviously flat, otherwise all us Australians would be falling off).<\/li>\n<li>What chemical poison those jet planes are spewing out all over us (and don&#8217;t you dare try to tell us it&#8217;s just condensation).<\/li>\n<li>Who&#8217;s hiding all that extra money spent when we buy something that isn&#8217;t a multiple of five cents (I bet Malcolm&#8217;s got it in an offshore account somewhere).<\/li>\n<li>Why the car industry continues to mislead consumers by calling it an &#8220;automatic&#8221; transmission when you still have to select what you want manually.<\/li>\n<li>Who is really running the planet (because we all know it&#8217;s either the underground lizard people or one of those jewish\/asian\/darkie secret societies).<\/li>\n<li>Who gave aboriginal people permission to migrate here 50,000 years ago, and why won&#8217;t they produce the documentation to prove it?<\/li>\n<li>Why the senate chamber has to be that awful pink\/red colour, but the lower house can have a nice green decor.<\/li>\n<li>Why it&#8217;s called &#8220;Circular Quay&#8221; when it&#8217;s a square?<\/li>\n<li>How much does it cost the Australian people to have a new moon every month? (Typical pinko extravagance &#8211; how many do we really need?)<\/li>\n<li>Is yoga a sexual, satanic cult?<\/li>\n<li>Fluoride in drinking water (because we know it causes acne,\u00a0halitosis, autism, civic obedience, and bad parking).<\/li>\n<li>The connection between childhood vaccinations and adult stupidity, especially in relation to xenophobia, inability to recognise or utilise facts, and inability to form coherent sentences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If there are any I&#8217;ve missed, please remind me in the comments below &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>[PS &#8211; yes, this is satire.]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the side-splitting Australian federal election\u00a0and the return of Pauline Hanson as leader of the Australian One Nutter Party, we&#8217;ve heard about only&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/craig.delahoy.net\/myblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/237077-pauline-hanson.jpg?fit=650%2C366","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2rvIN-7J","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":55,"url":"http:\/\/craig.delahoy.net\/myblog\/lamenting-the-devolution-of-our-language\/","url_meta":{"origin":479,"position":0},"title":"Lamenting the devolution of our language","date":"June 20, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The trouble with being an anal-retentive writer is that you get very caught up with the only tool of your trade - the english language. 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