Paul Hense Migration Lawyers

19/06/2026

A lot of the leaders of the Third Reich also had both the same view, and eyewear. "Cultural", she's a complete racist philistine ("Isn't that near Israel, please explain"). That wicked SBS, no wonder she wants to get rid of it, as well as the Human Rights Commissioner, etc!

18/06/2026

Surely someone as incompetent as Pauline Hanson, would not dare to lecture others? By the way, the vast majority of migrants to this country need to pass an English test, including for adult family members of the principal applicant. I guess facts are irrelevant to Ms Pantsdown (she in the past has needed to have her own bonking ban. Interestingly isn't it, the defector to One Nation - Barnaby Joyce, also had this predeliction. And Hanson says workers are always on their phones and lazy! https://www.facebook.com/reel/27559548196973788 See less

18/06/2026

I do note some consistency in Pauline Hanson's policies. She wants the Office of the Human Rights Commissioner abolished. Given that she wants to curtail abortion rights, deny transgender their rights (to be treated as human beings) ,presumably ban other religions apart from Christianity, there is in fact no need for a Human Rights Commissioner. People will not HAVE human rights in her dystopian conformist society.

Labor minister says Australians would lose their jobs and wages would go down if One Nation’s policies became law

17/06/2026

Interesting listening to Pauline Hanson at the National Press Club. I would describe it as a NewsCorp/simplistic/BBQ whinging array of right wing trash. Also, demonstrably idiotic and false in very thing she says. Also, contradictions galore - and this comes. No Climate Change Department - and no climate change incentives, no free ABC, The ABC or the Guardian are not allowed at One Nation pressers - bias there (not from NewsCorp?) - not from NDIS cut back, a flat rate taxation system (which is regressive - that is a millionaire pays the same formal tax rate as someone on $50K a year). Simplistic, wrong, etc. Worth listening to - so you know. Pulling out from the UN and World Health Organisation. Australia is being swamped by Muslim? Agreed to. One flag - gee, that sounds like an endorsement of the Genocide. She says she believes in scrutiny...but only on her terms - excluding those world status media organisations mentioned. Indigenous folk are given preferential treatment - one might have thought on the basis of need. Banning wind farms, no solar on agricultural land. Very few media folk clapped her speech. Ministers will tell the Public Service not the other way around. So Policy and Statistics are not important. Very very TRUMPIAN - and did not answer ONE question put to her.

16/06/2026

An excellent article from Rodger Shanahan, who I've appeared before when he was on the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (dealing with a Middle Eastern Protection Visa applicant). Rodger was excellent, and is highly experienced in ME affairs. Watching "7.30" last night, it was interesting seeing how the botched and brutal bombing of an Iranian child car centre by the US - 150 at least killed - has been used for propaganda purposes (not surprisingly). Fleshes out one of Rodger's points, all excellently made. From the Herald:

"From the French Revolution through to early British parliamentary practice, and from prime ministers such as Winston Churchill to presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt, the idea that great power demands great responsibility has been something spoken of by those entrusted with political power, even if they did not always practise it.

The ill-fated Israeli and American plan to topple Iran’s nearly half-century-old theocratic regime, however, ignored that ideal to the plan’s detriment. It has become the latest example of politicians overestimating the ability of their military to effect political change, and underestimating the ability of their opponents to resist it.

The most frustrating thing about Donald Trump’s support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plans to change the political map of the Middle East is that Iran’s response was entirely predictable. Completely overmatched in the air and on the sea and unlikely to have to face a significant land threat, Tehran long ago understood that its arsenal of rockets, missiles and drones gave it strategic reach and leverage. By targeting directly Israel and Gulf states that hosted US forces, while closing off the Strait of Hormuz, Tehran could hit back at its main antagonist and impose an economic cost on the regional and global economies that Washington wouldn’t be able to ignore.

And so it came to pass. Tehran conducted its campaign in exactly the way any analyst worth their salt would have predicted. Tactics such as leadership decapitation grabbed headlines and undoubtedly threw Iran’s military and governance system into chaos in the short term, but a regime whose ideological foundation is heavily reliant on a narrative of resistance in the face of overwhelming odds soon found its equilibrium. Decentralising authority for its missile, rocket and drone strikes after lessons learnt from earlier attacks also allowed Iran to conduct offensive operations while its political and military leadership was being reconstituted.

Washington also lost the information war. It is a hard ask for a liberal democracy to appear less caring than a revolutionary theocratic regime about individual rights and the unintended consequences of war, yet the White House did exactly that. The killing of more than 150 children and teachers at a school in Minab on the US’s first day of bombing dealt a fatal blow to Washington’s claims of a precision air campaign. Trump’s original denial and the administration’s continued refusal to accept responsibility in the face of regular media questioning have further eroded US credibility. The Minab deaths are also a constant theme in the viral pro-Iranian social media campaign featuring AI-generated Lego figures of Trump, his administration and the US and Israeli military.
For a war of choice in which Washington made no attempt to seek allies, the US administration’s overconfident and bombastic approach has done nothing to engender confidence among the American public, and certainly not within the international community, that this was a well-thought-out campaign. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth’s promise to the Iranians of “death and destruction from the sky all day long” came only days after the children were killed at Minab. And the White House’s release of a montage of superhero and Hollywood movie scenes spliced with videos of bombing of Iranian targets, entitled Justice the American Way, added to the surreal nature of the administration’s approach to the most serious undertaking any political leader can authorise.
Trump has no military experience, favours unilateralism over coalition-building, loves technology but is famously incurious. It is a dangerous combination when dealing with a region where issues of history, ideology and identity combine with the realities of geography to present a complex operating environment for those with little grasp of, or interest in, such things. Simple suits Trump, but the Middle East is anything but.

Being commander of the most powerful military in the world without any experience of conflict is not new, and neither is military overreach. George W. Bush, another commander-in-chief with no experience of conflict, went to war in Iraq with a meagre coalition of the UK, Australia and Poland and declared “Mission Accomplished” six weeks after the invasion. The conflict lasted another eight years and cost the lives of thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of Iraqis.

By contrast George Bush snr, a commander-in-chief who had experienced war and understood the effects and limitations of military power, was the last example of a president who faced a military crisis in the Middle East and responded in a coherent, ordered and ultimately successful manner, by expelling Iraqi forces from Kuwait. He took time to build a broad coalition and gain international legal authority to conduct the war, and then limited his military action to what he was authorised to do and what his coalition had agreed to. Rather than continue to advance into Iraq and topple a weakened Saddam Hussein, he understood the limitations of the military power at his disposal and the complexities of occupying Iraq and went no further than Kuwait.
Trump tried to cut the head off the Iran snake but it keeps biting him
Rodger Shanahan
Middle East and security analyst"

16/06/2026

The "Leader" of the Free World, checking his tie before a family photo at the G7 Summit. Mind always on the job (whatever THAT! may be).

16/06/2026

Interesting comments (past I note) from One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts. I suspect he's wouldn't utter these truthful comments now - with Trump in power. Being a VERY keen student of history, I'm not sure what significance the 1913 date is - the US' use of warships in Havana harbour predated that (1898). But I do slightly disagree, the US is the second worst terrorist state in the world. As background, Roberts denies the reality of climate change, and states that the 14th Dec Bondi attack was a false flag event (knowing Mossad, debatable). From the Herald:

"One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts labelled the United States “the world’s greatest terrorist organisation” in a 2024 interview, in comments that will challenge Pauline Hanson to bring her controversial colleague to heel and raise questions about the party’s fitness to govern.

Roberts described the US as “globalist parasites since 1913” in an interview with Israeli podcaster Efrat Fenigson in September 2024, when Joe Biden was still president, but his remarks have resurfaced just as One Nation leader Hanson prepares to front the National Press Club in Canberra for the first time on Wednesday.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Senator Malcolm Roberts.Alex Ellinghausen

The address to the Press Club – more than 30 years after Hanson was first elected – is seen within the party as a test of her ability to face tough questions as One Nation surges in all the polls to become a mainstream political force.

Its primary vote has reached 29 percentage points in the latest Resolve Political Monitor, ahead of Labor on 28 points and the Coalition on 20 points.

At the same time, Hanson now leads as preferred prime minister too, with 33 per cent of voters nominating her, 29 per cent nominating Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and just 16 per cent of voters naming Angus Taylor as their preferred PM.

One Nation will spend some of the $4.3 million raised so far in its “Fire the Liar” campaign on a new anti-Albanese television ad during Wednesday’s State of Origin game – one of the most expensive time slots of the year – and on Tuesday launched a second advertisement set to US country anthem Won’t Back Down by Bailey Zimmerman, featuring Hanson comforting despairing Australians.

In the podcast interview, Roberts tells Fenigson – who bills herself as an independent journalist, podcaster, public speaker and marketing expert whose “path to sovereignty unfolded with the outbreak of COVID” – that he had lived in the US for five years, married an American woman and had two children who were dual Australian-American citizens.

The senator, who entered parliament as a One Nation MP in 2016, would be in the box seat to hold a senior ministerial or shadow ministerial portfolio such as Defence or Foreign Affairs if the party can translate its surge in support into more seats and a formal conservative coalition role at the next election, due in 2028.

“That country that I had so much respect for is just the world’s greatest terrorist organisation now. American people are fantastic; they are lovely people. So caring, so frank, so easy to engage, so wonderful. But their government has been hijacked by these globalist parasites since 1913 and probably before, and it’s now controlling the world’s largest military force ever,” he said.
“They don’t even need a fraction of what they’ve got. They can walk into any country on Earth. They can bring Australia along with us just like little patsies following. Britain’s going in after them.”
Roberts then said he agreed with former US Republican congressman Ron Paul that “every major war since 1913 is directly attributable to the Federal Reserve Bank”.

Roberts was contacted for comment. Despite his office promising a response, it did not provide one. Hanson’s office declined to comment.

The remarks are embarrassing for Hanson, who used her appearance at a conference at US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last November to urge Australia to lift defence spending to at least 5 per cent of gross domestic product, and has steadfastly backed the US invasion of Iran.

This is not the first time that Roberts, a close ally of Hanson, has created a headache for the party leader. Last month during a press conference in Parliament House, Hanson had to step in and clarify that Roberts did not believe the Bondi terror attack was a hoax, something he had speculated about on a separate podcast.

Roberts’ comments about the US emerged on the same day that the progressive Jewish Council of Australia claimed that Hanson’s One Nation had “cultivated relationships with far-right networks” that hold antisemitic views, in a submission to the royal commission into antisemitism.

Coalition MP Garth Hamilton, who has helped lead criticism of Hanson from within Coalition ranks, said Roberts “is not some fringe volunteer handing out how-to-vote cards, he is a senior One Nation senator and Pauline Hanson’s right-hand man in the Senate. If One Nation ever got near government, this is the sort of person who could be sitting around the cabinet table.

“Anyone who labels the United States the world’s greatest terrorist organisation is not fit to be defence minister, foreign minister or anywhere near Australia’s national security decisions,” he said.
Jewish group links One Nation to neo-Nazis and antisemitism
“Pauline Hanson needs to say whether she agrees with Malcolm Roberts or whether she believes he is wrong. Australians deserve to know whether One Nation would put anti-American conspiracy theories at the heart of our foreign and defence policy.”

Opposition spokesman for industry and sovereign capability Andrew Hastie said on Tuesday that if Hanson and her chief of staff wanted to target him and his seat of Canning at the next election, he was ready, and if they “want war, I’m going to give them war”.
“If they think that I’m just going to bow the knee and do a preference deal because I’m scared, think again,” Hastie told 2GB.
He conceded that voters in his WA electorate of Canning were telling him they supported Hanson, but in a swipe at One Nation’s new ad campaign, he said: “We’re not going after sugar hits on social media. It’s easy to pop off on a 30-second reel online and get a whole bunch of likes. It’s much, much harder to model a policy, cost a policy, and get a policy out the door and win an election, and that’s what we’re focusing on.”

14/06/2026

13/06/2026

From the horses' mouth. DAVID, DON'T BE SO ANTI-SEMITIC!