Australia news live: PM says Pauline Hanson should not ‘talk Australia down’ when overseas

Lee Hanson, daughter of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson , has said her mother’s comments about the White Australia policy have been “misinterpreted”.

In an interview on a podcast hosted by the far-right British activist Tommy Robinson, Pauline Hanson blamed the end of the White Australia policy for creating what she sees as problems with migration.

Lee Hanson told Sky on Sunday night that “snippets” of her mother’s comments were “misinterpreted”:

double quotation mark I know who Pauline is, Mum is, and I know that’s not what her intention was in any way. I do think snippets of it was misinterpreted. Under no way, shape, or form did she say she wished the White Australia policy hadn’t have been changed. She does not support it and she does not want it back. So I do believe it’s been taken out of context.

We know that media grabbed their snippets and their grabs, and it’s all about clickbait, and then Labor’s obviously jumped on it, and so are the Liberals, right? That’s how they try to better themselves, by picking out a little slogan when she was talking about the history of immigration and the change that has occurred.

She may not be the most eloquent person in the world but that is also a positive about her too, because she’s not necessarily the polished politician that speaks the talking points as everybody else. She is authentic but, yes, it was misunderstood, that’s for sure.