Hanson Blames Teachers After Student Walkouts Target Her

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has hit out at what she calls ideologically driven teaching in Australian schools, after learning that students at some Brisbane-area schools were encouraged to walk out in protest against her and her party.

Flyers circulated at school gates called on students to join a 'Students Say No to Hansen' action, prompting 4BC host Jason Hawker to ask Senator Hanson for her reaction during a morning radio interview. Hanson said she had only just heard about the walkouts for the first time, having spent the previous evening at a function marking the Queensland Museum's 150th anniversary.

"If they're walking out because of Pauline Hanson, then I blame the educational system and the teachers," she told listeners. "Teachers that are so left-leaning, so full of hate, have been teaching about One Nation for years — that we are racist. I call on the Minister for Education to have a good look at this."

Hanson cited what she described as a recorded incident at a New South Wales university, in which a lecturer allegedly told students they should feel ashamed of being "white privileged" and condemned support for Western culture. She also recounted the experience of a student from a private school on the Sunshine Coast who wanted to write a speech about her as a personal hero. The student was reportedly discouraged by the teacher, pressed ahead regardless, and was later given a C-minus. Hanson said she arranged a visit to Parliament House for the student, read his speech on the Senate floor, and assessed it worthy of a B-plus.

"Stand your ground," she said she told him. "Good on you, mate."

The interview shifted to homelessness, with Hanson expressing particular concern for women over the age of 55 who find themselves without housing following divorce — often having spent decades out of the workforce caring for children and lacking adequate superannuation. She also pointed to families with working parents unable to afford rent and living in their vehicles.

Hanson attributed rising homelessness in large part to high immigration levels under successive governments, saying both Labor and the Coalition had maintained migration at rates she considered excessive for too long. She described personal encounters near her home with rough sleepers, including a man who had lived in a van for three years, a young autistic man with nowhere to go, and an Indigenous family in a vehicle — all of whom she said were struggling to access government support services.

"We're perceived to be a rich country, but we are not," Hanson said. "That is the perception."