Pauline Hanson Has Decided To Lay In A Paddock To Protest Social Distancing Rules
I hope she does it.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has told Sky News that she is going to “go and lie down in my paddock tomorrow” as a kind of protest against new social distancing regulations.
Pauline Hanson has a rather chequered history of knee-jerk conservative political stunts, such as the time she decided to climb Uluru, and then famously got stuck up there, forced to first panic and then scoot down the sacred site on her butt.
The paddock action came about in response to Victorian premier Daniel Andrew’s new social distancing laws, which at first included the instruction to not visit partners at other places of residence, but was later clarified.
“No premier of any state is going to tell me whether I can go and see someone or not,” said Hanson, who does not live in Victoria.
“Well look I’ll tell everyone, I’m going to go and lie down in my paddock tomorrow, let’s see if they will turn up and fine me because I’m out there in my paddock laying on the ground”.
On the one hand, it would be very funny if the police did come and fine her for laying in her own paddock.
But on the other hand, imagine her laying there alone and angry, craning her head every so often to see if anyone was watching, ears pricking for the sounds of sirens, viewed only by the uncaring sun and probably a lonely cow.
Obviously, this proposed action has baffled and confused everyone, as it seems to have little to do with social distancing regulations, and is, in fact, probably an ideal thing for people practicing social distancing to do.
do it coward pic.twitter.com/3utec8pyZo
— Chris Somerville (@chrisomerville) April 1, 2020
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And the fact that Pauline Hanson doesn't understand anything— Jo Thornely (@jothornely) April 1, 2020
So… to protest social distancing Pauline Hanson is going somewhere nobody else is? 😂 #auspol #coronavirus pic.twitter.com/ZWksN8X8WW
— Michael Cox (@notmichaeljfox) April 1, 2020