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Attacking Hanson doesn’t work like it did in the past, Joyce says
Barnaby Joyce has disagreed with his leader Pauline Hanson over inflammatory comments about Muslims, but says parties criticising her haven’t learned the lesson of One Nation’s rise.
[People] see Pauline as having the courage to stand behind her convictions on certain issues…
I’ll make it very clear, I do know people the Islamic faith who are good people, without a shadow of a doubt.”
There are people of Islamic faith who are good. And she was referring to… trying to, how do you determine people who come from an area there where there’s jihad, whether they’re a good or bad? I don’t know. Maybe you can do it by talking to them. I can’t.
We’ve been asked in the past to put a frigate into the Red Sea, but Australia was unable to do it.
In the past, we weren’t able to get the one frigate into the Red Sea, and now we don’t know whether we’ve got the capacity to support the United States of America. However, in the future, we’ll be running to them straight away if we need their help.
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Author : Ima Caldwell
Publish date : 2026-03-14 22:59:00
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