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Post by Admin on Mar 27, 2019 17:57:06 GMT
Australia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison criticized far-right One Nation party members on Wednesday, a day after an undercover Al Jazeera documentary was released in which two party members were recorded asking American gun lobbyists for money.
One Nation Leader Steve Dickson and party founder Pauline Hanson’s chief of staff, James Ashby, said they were “on the sauce” when they requested $20 million from the NRA, reports The Australian.
“Being drunk is no excuse for trading away Australia’s gun laws to foreign bidders,” Morrison told reporters on Wednesday, according to The Australian.
The documentary, How to Sell a Massacre, filmed Dickson saying the funding would allow his party to get the the government “by the balls,” reports The Australian. Al Jazeera reporter Rodger Muller posed as the head of a fake lobbying group called Guns Rights Australia and organized the One Nation meetings with the NRA, according to The Australian.
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Post by Admin on Mar 28, 2019 17:55:12 GMT
The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, has been secretly recorded questioning whether the 1996 Port Arthur massacre, where a gunman shot and killed 35 people in Tasmania, was a government conspiracy.
The covertly recorded footage is in the second part of an explosive al-Jazeera documentary, How to Sell a Massacre, which also reveals senior One Nation staff being advised by the US gun lobby, the National Rifle Association, to exploit stories about so-called 'African gangs' to make the case for gun ownership in Australia.
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Post by Admin on Apr 26, 2019 19:48:12 GMT
The Australian journalist behind the undercover operation that exposed One Nation's links to the America's powerful gun lobby has refuted claims party members were drunk during meetings. Al Jazeera Executive Producer, Peter Charley, defends the action he took to expose One Nation's links with the National Rifle Association. An Al Jazeera documentary, broadcast this week, featured secretly recorded footage of One Nation Queensland leader Steve Dickson and chief of staff James Ashby. It showed the pair talking to senior members of the National Rifle Association (NRA), discussing obtaining $US20 million in political donations, and claiming Muslim people immigrating to Australia were "breaking into people's homes with baseball bats and killing people."
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Post by Admin on May 2, 2019 17:41:55 GMT
It's been one scandal after another for Pauline Hanson's One Nation - a right-wing, anti-Muslim Australian political party that won four Senate seats in 2016. Last month, Al Jazeera released an investigation that appeared to show two One Nation politicians on a trip to Washington, D.C., asking for large donations from the U.S. National Rifle Association (NRA). After the footage aired, the politicians, including Senate candidate Steve Dickson, claimed that the comments were taken out of context and that they had been drinking. Hanson, who founded the party, stood by them. But then, on Monday, Australia's Nine Network aired further footage of Dickson's already controversial trip to Washington. This time, it showed him repeatedly touching a dancer at a strip club and making disparaging comments about women, and Asian women in particular. The news network said the footage was filmed by Al Jazeera but leaked to their program, "A Current Affair." The Associated Press reported that Al Jazeera said in a statement that it "did not consider it in the public interest to broadcast the material" and condemned its "unauthorized use" this week.
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