In a recent Sunrise interview Pauline Hanson declared that she would not be selling her house to Asian’s living overseas. Australian’s of Asian background were ok but anyone who is Muslim need not apply.



I’m not exactly certain of what happens if an Australian of Asian background who is Muslim applies, but I’m pretty sure the entire universe explodes.

Far be it from me to tell Pauline Hanson who and who she can’t sell her house to but it does raise some interesting questions about Hanson’s recent decision to relocate to the UK.

Aside from the irony of famously complaining about immigrants and then becoming on yourself, for someone who claims that she believes Muslims are incompatible with the Australian way of live, is moving to the UK that smart a move?

The Muslim population of Britain according to their 2001 census was 1,536,015, or 3% of the population. The British newspaper ‘The Times’ put the British Muslim population at 2.9 million as of January 2009.

Plus it’s no state secret that Britain has been heavily Islamicised over the past decade. Britain even set up its own muslim friendly Sharia court system.

Comparatively the Australian Muslim population sat at 340,392 or 1.3% of the population in 2006 according to our own census.

This of course doesn’t take into account that 99.99% of Muslims living in Australia live in the western suburbs of Melbourne and Sydney. Pauline Hanson however lives up in Coleyville in Queensland.

I’m sure the one muslim who lives up in Queensland is absolutely outraged they won’t be able to purchase Pauine Hanson’s house.

Statistically Pauline Hanson’s got more chance of moving into a house in the UK that has had Muslims live in it then selling her Queensland home to a Muslim in Australia.

Unfortunately we won’t know for a while as due to the negative backlash over her comments, Hanson has removed her property from the market.

Her LJ Hooker real estate agent, Keith Edwards, said he’d received an onslaught of emails and calls following the controversial comments.

“Some of (the emails) have been pretty upsetting… I got the abusive and threatening phone calls last night (Wednesday night), I didn’t sleep.

I got swags of abusive emails, with non-returnable addresses, just cowards.”


I’m not sure if this is code for death threats and crazy jihads ala South Park but I wouldn’t at all be surprised if it was.

As for Hanson’s comments themselves, I somewhat agree with her. Whilst my scope isn’t as broad as to cover all Muslims, I firmly believe there should be no place in Australia for crazy nutjobs Muslim extremists.

I’d like to pretend I wouldn’t but I know that if I was selling a house and a self styled cleric rocked up with his Burqa clad wife complaining about my pork sausages in the fridge after an inspection, I’d be feeling slightly uneasy.

An interesting comment from Queensland’s Anti-Discrimination Commissioner  Neroli Holmes was thrown in at the end of the news.com.au article;

Ms Hanson’s latest stance against Muslims and foreign investors puts her at risk of breaching the state’s discrimination laws.


Yeah, I’d love to see the government try that one on. The real estate industry has been discriminating against people for years. Try renting some property as a pet owner or as a single mum with kids some time.

…welcome to the Australian real estate industry boys.



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