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Will Nicholas

What Pauline Hanson revealed during major address

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson didn't pull any punches in her National Press Club address. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

PAULINE HANSON'S CAREER-FIRST NATIONAL PRESS CLUB SPEECH:

IMMIGRATION AND CULTURE

* "Don't expect a divisive Welcome to Country from me" - on how to start a speech.

* "We are a multiracial society, but we must be monocultural" - on firming up English language requirements for migrants.

* "I will not walk away from my commitment to get rid of social cancer" - on Muslim hate preachers.

* "Other political parties are simply following me" - on Labor and the Liberal vowing to reduce immigration.

ENERGY

* "The central source of national poverty" - on unaffordable energy, which Senator Hanson proposes to remedy with more coal, gas, and nuclear instead of "net-zero nonsense".

* "Put it up on your roofs, I don't care" - on blocking solar panels being built on farmland, along with all wind turbines.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson
Journalist Sarah Martin was told "don't come near me" after asking about Pauline Hanson's daughter. (Lukas Coch/AAP PHOTOS)

ECONOMY

* "How can we hold our heads up? ... it's disgraceful, and yet the Albanese Labor government ... floods this country time and time again" - on the cost-of-living crisis and rising indicators of poverty.

* "Dr Chalmers has a PhD from ANU, writing about the Keating government. Well, he hasn't learned much" - on national debt sitting at $1 trillion and government spending reaching 28 per cent of GDP.

* "That's all smoke and mirrors" - on the gender pay gap.

MEDIA

* "There's no need for it anymore. The internet has overtaken the need for it" - on the SBS, which Senator Hanson says will be "gone".

* "The arrogance is stunning in its scope" - on alleged bias at the ABC, which Senator Hanson says would be a subscription service in metro areas under One Nation.

EXCHANGES WITH JOURNALISTS

* "I've never seen a person that's such a trashy journalist ... don't come near me" - to a Guardian reporter who asked whether Senator Hanson had intervened to get her daughter a job as an adviser to NSW senator Sean Bell.

* "You're gonna be out of a job" - to an SBS journalist asking why One Nation would scrap SBS if it translates Australian news for migrants seeking to integrate.

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