Pauline Hanson's chilling warning: One Nation leader releases video from 1997 predicting globalisation would cause 'problems' for Australia - decades before coronavirus outbreak
- The One Nation leader posted the video of her speaking in Parliament in 1997
- In the speech she argued that Australia should turn away from the world
- She also said Australia should cut ties with the United Nations and WHO
- 'Government ignored my warnings about globalism dangers,' Sen Hanson wrote
- Learn more about how to help people impacted by COVID
Pauline Hanson has released a video of her warning that globalisation would cause 'problems' for Australia 23 years before coronavirus spread around the world.
The One Nation leader posted the video of her speaking in Parliament in 1997 on her Facebook page with the title: 'Government ignored my warnings about globalism dangers'.
In the speech, which she made as an independent federal MP for the Queensland division of Oxley, Senator Hanson argued that Australia should turn away from the rest of the world.
In the speech, which she made as an independent federal MP for the Queensland division of Oxley, Senator Hanson (pictured) argued that Australia should turn away from the world
Recently analysts have said the interconnection of countries is major reason why coronavirus spread so fast and far compared to the SARS outbreak of 2002 which was largely contained in east Asia.
In her Facebook post, Senator Hanson claimed she had long warned of the 'dangers' of an inter-connected world.
'The Chinese coronavirus has exposed what many of us already knew, the globalist system the Liberal/National and the Labor parties have championed for years is fraught with danger,' she wrote.
In the speech, Senator Hanson argued that Australia should cut ties with United Nations and the World Health Organisation.
'The United Nations are being outrageously successful in having our government dance to their tune which in turn is a death march to our own people and our Australian way of life,' she said.
Passengers wearing face masks and rain coats to protect against the spread of new coronavirus in Wuhan, China on April 8
Now Senator Hanson is arguing that Australia should cut funding to the WHO, claiming it did little to keep Australians safe by failing to contain the coronavirus.
She also argues the WHO has pandered to China by praising the country's response to the virus despite its attempt to cover-up the spread of the disease by silencing whistleblowers.
'I even warned them of the United Nations' corruption which we are now seeing displayed so clearly by their offshoots in the World Health Organisation,' she wrote on Facebook.
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In the 1997 speech, Senator Hanson claimed that foreign investment in Australia was doing little to improve happiness, employment levels and standards of living.
'We have been internationalized to a very large degree already yet the problems are increasing not diminishing,' she said in the speech.
The late 20th century saw wide-ranging reforms in the West that championed free trade and economic growth.
Through tax reductions, labor reforms, privatisation and an international outlook, Australia rose from being the 15th richest country in the world in 1990 to fourth in 2002.
From 1985 to 2002, real income per person increased by more than 55 per cent from $23,000 to $36,000.
Now Senator Hanson (pictured) is arguing that Australia should cut funding the WHO, claiming it did little to keep Australians safe by failing to contain the coronavirus
Cheaper air travel meant more Australians could afford holidays overseas as global trade saw Aussies benefit from new technologies such as computers and mobile phones.
But Senator Hanson was unhappy about Australia's place in the new globalised world.
'Does the government really expect Australians to believe that more deregulation and selling more of our country will fix our problems?' she said.
Senator Hanson's opponents say she is using the coronavirus outbreak to further her anti-free-trade and isolationist agenda, which will stifle growth and make Australians poorer.
