Pauline Hanson’s Coleyville house not for sale to Muslims

While the former One Nation leader’s house is still on the market, she says Asians and Muslims need not bother putting in any offers.

But she has also bristled on Fox FM when asked by Matt Tilley about the possibility of gay couples moving into her house.

While Ms Hanson declared “Australians are very tolerant”, she was less so when pressed on how she would react if other minority groups such as a gay couple showed an interested in her property.

“And who are you going to drag up after that? And who’s the next one? I think you’ve had your interview with me this morning. Anyway you’ve got your view I’ve got my views. It’s my house and I will sell it to anyone I want to. Thankyou, goodbye.”

Ms Hanson, who has put up for sale her million-dollar property in Coleyville, southwest of Brisbane, announced she was moving to Britain earlier this year.

Her hardline views on race sparked a national debate over immigration policy and Aboriginal disadvantage from the time she entered parliament in 1996 at the same election that made John Howard prime minister.

While taking the Seven Network’s Sunrise program on a tour of her home, broadcast this morning, she said she would not allow certain members of the Australian community to purchase the property.

Asked if Asians were welcome to express interest in the property, Ms Hanson said she would not sell the home to an Asian who lived overseas.

But she had no problem with selling the property to “an Australian who is of Asian background”.

“No problems whatsoever,” she said.

Asked if she would be prepared to sell the property to a Muslim, she said no.

“Because I don’t believe that they are compatible with our way of life, our culture.

“And I think we are going to have problems with them in this country further down the track, so I have no intention of selling my home to a Muslim.”

Speaking to Eddie McGuire on his Triple M breakfast show today Pauline Hanson lost her train of thought as she pitched her argument.

“I’ve got a young girl 17 from Melbourne that wrote to me, she said, ‘I can’t get on the tram anymore the way these Muslims boys treat me like dirt’.”

“Or you have the Muslim fellow who comes out and says the young girls are just like a ‘meat market’.

“How many times have we heard these comments from them, and I’m absolutely disgusted.

“I’m told to be tolerant because I say I don’t believe they’re compatible with our culture and way of life and beliefs, yet they can come out and make these comments, we’re saying no, we don’t agree with that... they do it in a very... um...ah.... Oh anyway.

Earlier, the former One Nation leader held her line together as she told the Seven Network that Tony Abbot has her support at the next federal election, despite the bad blood between them.

The opposition leader was behind the $100,000 Australians for Honest Politics Trust fund, formed to bankroll legal challenges against One Nation at the time of the 1998 election.

Ms Hanson said although she was hurt by his actions, Mr Abbott was better than Prime Minister Kevin Rudd.

“I will never forgive or forget what Tony Abbott did to me in the past,” she said today.

“But he’s got to be far better than what Kevin Rudd is doing to our country and I’d like to see Kevin Rudd go at the next election.

“If it’s going to be Tony Abbott, he’ll get my support.”

Mr Abbott said he was happy to take any votes that came his way but refused to say sorry to Ms Hanson.

“I think that was a tumultuous chapter in our political history, it’s now closed, and I think all of us can move on - Pauline, myself, everyone,” he said.

In response to Ms Hanson’s comments on Muslims, Mr Abbott said many people of the Islamic faith made great Australians.

“The vast majority of Muslims coming to this country have become perfectly good Australians and that’s great,” he said.

“Obviously there are extreme variants of Islam ... that version of Islam certainly is something which is dangerous.”

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