‘She’s A Pelican’: Crocodile Dundee Star Rips Into Pauline Hanson Over Monoculture Comments | 10 New

One Nation has taken a hit in the polls following Pauline Hanson's controversial monoculture comments at the National Press Club, with Labor regaining the lead on primary votes.It comes as the PM finally put pen to paper on a new security deal with Vanuatu.Senior political correspondent Chloe Boris has the details.

There was no grand welcome ceremony for the Vanuatu Prime Minister's arrival here in Canberra today.There's been a bit of tension around this security deal and not just the car parking situation.deal does offer assurance there'll be no foreign military base and Australia will be consulted on third -party engagement of critical infrastructure.Vanuatu will also look to the Pacific for policing needs.

We've concluded a balanced agreement that will protect our collective and individual security and our sovereignty.

On the domestic front, the federal government's enjoying an uptick in the polls as it claws back support from One Nation.Pauline Hanson's popularity has taken a hit following her National Press Club address where she promoted a monoculture and pushed back on business -funded parental leave.Anthony Albanese comfortably ahead in a three -way contest for preferred PM as Labor regains its lead over One Nation on the primary vote.The coalition failing to capitalise and hitting a new low.Taking a bit of inspiration from Sky News this morning with your rebrand to News 24, I think it's time, I'm putting myself out on a limb a little bit, I think it's time for the Liberal Party to rebrand.That suggestion from Liberal frontbencher, Melissa McIntosh, causing quite a stir in the capital.

A long lost Australian Insider.became the centre of political chatter over the weekend after Paul Hogan labelled Pauline Hanson a pelican in response to her calls for monoculture.It started last Wednesday after the Senator gave a speech in the Senate referring to Hogan as she reiterated her calls to turn Australia from multicultural to monocultural.

Bring back Paul Hogan and Norman Gunston.These are the essential features of Australian modern culture and there's nothing remotely exclusionary about them.These values are not even especially unique.

But that then prompted the AFR to ask Hogan about it, to which the actor responded...Adding of One Nation's plan... the term pelican.Yeah well it turns out that calling somebody a pelican is not new.It even appears in Shakespeare's King Lear.And while Australians have been known to regularly label each other galahs or drongos, this particular Aussie insult hasn't had this much attention since it appeared in the 1986 film Crocodile Dundee.