{"id":42674,"date":"2020-07-06T14:06:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T04:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/?p=42674"},"modified":"2020-07-06T14:06:16","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T04:36:16","slug":"pauline-hanson-has-been-cut-from-the-today-show-following-lockdown-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/pauline-hanson-has-been-cut-from-the-today-show-following-lockdown-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson Has Been Cut From The Today Show Following Lockdown Comments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">QLD senator Pauline Hanson will no longer appear on The Today Show after she claimed locked down residents in Melbourne were drug addicts and alcoholics.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a statement following Hanson\u2019s on air segment on Monday, Channel 9 said Hanson\u2019s comments were \u201cill-informed and divisive\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cAt a time of uncertainty in this national and global health crisis, Australians have to be united and supportive of one another,\u201d the statement said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"zxx\" dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dlpGOHiLM5\">pic.twitter.com\/dlpGOHiLM5<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Today Show (@TheTodayShow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTodayShow\/status\/1279981905543233536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier during her segment Hanson said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>\u201cThe fact is a lot of them are drug addicts\u2026 they\u2019re getting the medication, they\u2019re alcoholics so they\u2019re being looked after that way\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cA lot of these people are from non-English speaking backgrounds, probably English is their second language, who haven\u2019t adhered to the rules of social distancing.<\/p><p>\u201cSo the fact is you\u2019ve got to look at why they are in that situation\u2026 Why has the government gone to this high-rise building and shut it down, possibly because a lot of these people weren\u2019t doing the right thing\u2026<\/p><p>\u201cIf they are from war-torn countries, which some of these people are, they know what it is like to be in tough conditions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has been banned from appearing on the Today show following racist remarks made on Monday.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XCOFJWbfTf\">https:\/\/t.co\/XCOFJWbfTf<\/a><\/p>&mdash; The Daily Telegraph (@dailytelegraph) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dailytelegraph\/status\/1279969768833839104?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 6, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QLD senator Pauline Hanson will no longer appear on The Today Show after she claimed locked down residents in Melbourne were drug addicts and alcoholics. In a statement following Hanson\u2019s on air segment on Monday, Channel 9 said Hanson\u2019s comments were \u201cill-informed and divisive\u201d. \u201cAt a time of uncertainty in this national and global health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":42677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[245],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-42674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pauline Hanson Has Been Cut From The Today Show Following Lockdown Comments - FIVEAA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/pauline-hanson-has-been-cut-from-the-today-show-following-lockdown-comments\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pauline Hanson Has Been Cut From The Today Show Following Lockdown Comments\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"QLD senator Pauline Hanson will no longer appear on The Today Show after she claimed locked down residents in Melbourne were drug addicts and alcoholics. 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