- media response to Pauline Hanson's maiden speech to Parliament
- excerpts from Pauline Hanson's maiden speech
Reports/Comment:
- ABC Radio National's Media Report poses the question: 'Is Pauline Hanson a simple fish-and-chip shop lady or a savvy media performer?' The Media Report's Agnes Warren comments
- Ray Martin's back announce on A Current Affair after Pauline Hanson declined the show's interview invitation
- ACA Producer, David Hurley, explains why the program declared its hand on the issue
- ABC TV's Acting Sydney Network News Editor, John Mulhall, explains the editorial decision not to cover the Hanson speech.
- Reader criticisms of bias in The Sydney Morning Herald's Letters to the Editor
Please note that none of the reports in the case studies have been the subject of complaints or queries under the Racial Hatred Act.
A Current Affair invited Pauline Hanson to a live studio interview with Ray Martin the day after her speech. It was one in a succession of interview invitations the show had extended to Mrs Hanson - none of which she accepted - since she first came to national prominence during the federal election. After lengthy deliberations between the show's producer, David Hurley and her advisers, including media adviser John Pasquarelli, she declined. She gave as her reason, Martin's involvement in the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation.
Ray Martin delivered back-announce after a taped story on Pauline Hanson's maiden speech to Parliament, A Current Affair, 11 September 1996
Pauline Hanson has black banned me... no pun intended. She won't talk to me because she believes I'm sympathetic towards the plight of Aboriginal people. Well, I must confess I am.
Unlike Mrs Hanson, I believe they are the most disadvantaged Australians. I have no problem with Asian Australians either.
Mrs Hanson is, of course, entitled to state her views. I think she's ill-informed. Her so-called solutions are simplistic and I disagree with much of what she says. But I'd welcome the opportunity to discuss those differences with her.
Of the more than fifty calls received by Channel 9 following Ray Martin's editorialising about Hanson's rejection of his interview invitation, most were critical of Martin's stance, alleging bias and lack of professionalism.
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