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She's Back...
 Oho,
so the evil genie of Australian politics has been let out
of her bottle - er, cell.
Yes that's right, Pauline Hanson - arguably Australia's most
hated and loved woman - has had her conviction for electoral
fraud quashed and both she and her co-victim David Ettridge
are free again. Acquitted.
The pair - who were jailed for three years without parole
under a law rarely seen outside of the Great Barrier Reef
state of Queensland - can now resume their lives and, hopefully,
Ms Pauline Hanson will return to politics.
Now call me old, call me skinny and call me a cantankerous
old git, but this pile of walking rheumatism is exceptionally
pleased the One Nation leader is walking free.
Ms Hanson may be no intellectual. Ms Hanson may have some
policies that are ridiculous. Ms Hanson may be a pain in the
backside to those who want to rule and influence without bother.
But to me Ms Hanson is a necessary wildfire in our political
landscape that can jolt those contented ivory-tower dwellers
in Canberra into getting off their fat taxpayer-funded backsides
and realise that Australians are getting mighty peed off with
being ignored.
It doesn't matter which side of politics you back, most thinking
people would have to agree that our politicians couldn't give
a rat's bottie about voters - unless they want our ballot
approval.
And to the political effluent you may as well add the Australian
media whose biggest fear is that they will have an original
thought and may actually present news as news and opinion
- usually theirs - as opinion.
Now, while media owners will be rubbing their hands in glee
at the thought of Old Red creating political mayhem again,
the writers on newspaper columns will be rabidly trying to
discredit her.
If you can stomach the drivel have a squizz at what the papers
say - boring though it may be - and see how many knives are
out for her.
Anyway, here's a cheer for Queensland Chief Justice Paul
de Jersey who listened to the appeal evidence and tossed it
further than Tony Abbott was prepared to go in helping to
stitch Pauline Hanson up.
There are very few times I have ever wished to be a lawyer
(eeeeew, wash my mouth out) but boy would I love to be first
in the queue to start legal proceedings against the people
who witch-hunted Ms Hanson.
I also wouldn't mind being her accountant (eeeeew, wash my
mouth out) and have to work out what to do with all the damages
Old Red is going to be paid by about a gazillion authorities.
The bugger of it all is that we - the taxpayers - will fork
out for the persecution of Pauline Hanson and the truly guilty
will just get bigger publicly funded superannuation cheques.
Interview with Pauline Hanson coming very soon!
If there is something that has really got up your nose,
let Grumpy Old Coot know at grumpy@webwombat.com
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