One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is being accused of double standards for refusing to remove a satirical video of Robert Irwin and the popular Australian cartoon character, Bluey, from her YouTube channel.
The video — part of Hanson’s series Please Explain — has been viewed more than 276,000 times in four days.
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It mocks a Queensland government tourism campaign, using cartoon depictions of Irwin and Bluey to make jokes about social and political issues in the state.
Irwin’s lawyers issued Hanson with a take-down order, accusing the video’s producers of “unauthorised and deceptive use” of Irwin, who is the son of Australian icon Steve Irwin.
They argued the video “tarnished” Irwin’s image and “misled the public, causing significant harm” to his brand and image.
But Hanson and her team refused to comply and instead doubled down on her position, saying she would not take it down.
“I will not be removing the latest episode of Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain,” she said on X.
“I look forward to the day when Robert and I can have a good laugh over this and turn our focus to making Queensland a better state.”
Despite Hanson telling Irwin to “lighten up”, during the 1990s the One Nation senator famously took legal action to stop Triple J playing a satirical song about her created by Simon Hunt, also known as Pauline Pantsdown.
Her response has been labelled a double standard by Hunt who was sued by the politician in the 1990s over his parody songs and videos Backdoor Man and I Don’t Like It which used samples of Hanson’s voice.
Hunt called Hanson a “flip-flop queen” on X and said she needed to “make up her mind” about satire.
He said Hanson’s case against him was based on the argument that people would assume it was her on the songs and therefore everything would be taken literally.
Hunt said if taken to court, the One Nation leader would “have to argue exactly the opposite of what she argued in my case”.
“Pauline wants it both ways,” Hunt told Crikey.
