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Speaker 1: South Australian students will skip class for an anti Pauline Hanson rally next week. They're walking out of their classrooms to protest against Pauline's One Nation. It'll be students from local high schools as well as students from the Adelaide University and Flinders University. It is a nationwide day of protest Students Say No to Hanson, which has been organized by the National Union of Students. The local organizer is Jordan Armstrong joins me the South of Noon. Jordan, thank you for your time, thanks for having me on. Why are you protesting.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think that for young people and students all across this country, we're deeply concerned about the historic rides of One Nation, the fact that they're currently the most popular political party in Australia. While they stand for absolutely dispickles or things, they're part of the fire right movement that has been growing across the world. You know, she said that there's no such thing as a good Muslim. She stands for a monarch cultures, said that domestic violence is a two way street. She's you know, danced to the rich and powerful and says workers are lazy and get paid too much. I think absolutely everything that pulling Hanson stands for. Students are totally and utterly opposed to that, and it is really a massive threat to our interests because we've seen how think look in America, you know, the likes of Donald Trump supporting hundreds of thousands of people across America. She wants to do that here in Australia and that would be you know, supporting thousands of our peers. And I think we have a real responsibility to stand up to this and say no to Hanson.
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Speaker 1: Is there an an Undercarrent Jordan of students who don't want Australia to become like Trump's America?
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Speaker 2: I think totally. Like we've been following what's been going on. Yeah, in America, you have ice on the streets, supporting people, kidnapping people's neighbors, going into schools, universities and colleges and tearing people apart. And that's really been the project of you know, Donald Trump, with his far right politics. Paulin Hanson has been along Tomorrow lago, you know, chatting it up with him. She's been connected then with the far right in Europe. Recently met with Tommy Robinson and Rupert Low. I think it's a massive, massive reflection point for young people. Where are we going to let that actually happen here in Australia.
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Speaker 1: Any idea of the numbers that you're expecting as part of the protest, Jordan, So I mentioned that you've got Flinders University in Adelaide University students taking part. Have you seen a real interest from high school kids wanting to be involved?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, lots of different high schools across Adelaide we're expecting to be involved. This is part of a you know, national protest that's happening across the country and you know, we expect there to be thousands of students all across the country and I think it's really really important that yes, student come out at the classes make a disruption and actually that is that us putting our message out there. So we expect there'll be salsands across the country.
00:03:10
Speaker 1: So I know you've got Adelaide High School involved, Britannic High School, University, Senior College, Charles Campbell College. Are you expecting more schools to jump on as you get closer to the day.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, We're expecting students to come from a number of different schools, and we really encourage them to reach out and put forward what schools they're coming from, because yeah, really the response has been massive where students are really, like I've been saying before, like disturbed by the rise of paul In Anson and want to do something about this. And we saw how in the nineteen ninety is massive student walkouts across the universities and high schools all across the country. They played a really important role in pushing back against Hanson and we want to replicate that again.
00:03:56
Speaker 1: Jordan Armstrong is my guest, is a Adelaide University student and the organizer of the rally which is happening next week here in Adelaide, the Anti Pauline Hansoon Rally, which is South Australian students or students saying no to Hanson. You can imagine the feedback Jordan, that you're getting from five Double A listeners. I've got to say is split, so regular positive and then the negative. Emily says, I'm proud of young people. I did this when I was young. It helped me critically assess issues and vital social skills. My daughter has strong opinions. I encourage her to research and to be an active participant in a healthy democracy. On the flip side, Tony says, the kids just want a day off, protest on the weekends. Maybe protest to ben against Anthony Albernezi. He is the real killer of our future. What would just say to an older demographic five double A listeners who think you should be in school or university as opposed to protesting during the week Oh.
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Speaker 2: Look, I think we're being absolutely absolutely failed by all the existing political institutions in Australia. Like the media has just been platforming, you know, Pauline Hands and One Nation, you know, giving her massive airtime and putting out her talking points. The Labor Party, I think has actually just really been tailing the likes of One Nation and refusing to stand up against them. Only recently Peter malanaskis voted alongside the far right in South Australia in opposing abortion legislation. Very shamefully. I think that it falls on students, shoulders really to have their say and let our voice be heard, that we refuse to sit down while the threat of the far right is here in Australia.
00:05:35
Speaker 1: So I saw Carlos Krember quoted in the paper. He was talking about the idea of getting together and have conversations between politicians and students. Are you at that point, Jordan, would you like to do that as a group or is this just a showing at first about how displeased the youth are of South Australia.
00:05:52
Speaker 2: Well, I think this is the first step in actually building a movement against one Nation, in pulling Hanson, because it's clear that they're going to be going away, and we can't go away either. We need to actually thoroughly oppose what they're talking about. And I don't think that the politics of one Nation the fireright should be part of our political fabric. To be honest, I don't think that, you know, there should be a conversation about whether there are good Muslims or not. That is absolutely disgusting. We want to actually oppose her on every single front, and it's we don't want to We want to actually give confidence to all the people who absolutely despise one Nation.
00:06:33
Speaker 1: Len says the role of schools in university should be to teach critical thinking, evaluate evidence, understand multiple perspectives. Not in doctor a nation do you find a university, Jordan. You're having these conversations like is there critical thinking going on at high schools and universities today about our politics.
00:06:50
Speaker 2: I think we're absolutely doing critical thinking right now about taking on this massive threat. You know, we learn about in history class the lessons of the rise of fascism in the nineteen thirties. Well, and it was right to oppose them then. Well, when we have this massive threat on our doorsteps here today, well we want to actually put those lessons into practice and do something like we refuse to be passive and silent on this question, and that is really about our future, the future of the world. We don't want the ruling the politics of our society to be about sexism, bigotry and discrimination. There is no place for that here in Australia. And it falls on students to walk out of class and take this on.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: Are you expecting educators, Are you expecting parents to join some of the students for the protest next week on Thursday.
00:07:42
Speaker 2: I mean, that's totally supportable. If they want to come along, they're welcome to. But we really encourage high school students, university students, students from all across the country to come out for this.
00:07:54
Speaker 1: Okay, So one pm Thursday and the Parliament steps.
00:07:57
Speaker 2: Yep, that's correct, one pm August thirteen. And this is happening all across the country as well. I am from Melbourne, Perth, Queensland, Canberra. All across the country students are going to be walking out of a class to say no to Paulling Hanson.
00:08:11
Speaker 1: Jordan, appreciate your time this afternoon. Thank you, thanks so much. Jordan Armstrong is a university student at the Adelaide University. He is also the rally organizer for Students Saying No to Hanson, Endorsed by the National Union of Students. The rally will be held in the city one pm next Thursday, the thirteenth of August, where they meet at the Parliament House steps.
Speaker 1: South Australian students will skip class for an anti Pauline Hanson rally next week. They're walking out of their classrooms to protest against Pauline's One Nation. It'll be students from local high schools as well as students from the Adelaide University and Flinders University. It is a nationwide day of protest Students Say No to Hanson, which has been organized by the National Union of Students. The local organizer is Jordan Armstrong joins me the South of Noon. Jordan, thank you for your time, thanks for having me on. Why are you protesting.
00:00:33
Speaker 2: Well, I think that for young people and students all across this country, we're deeply concerned about the historic rides of One Nation, the fact that they're currently the most popular political party in Australia. While they stand for absolutely dispickles or things, they're part of the fire right movement that has been growing across the world. You know, she said that there's no such thing as a good Muslim. She stands for a monarch cultures, said that domestic violence is a two way street. She's you know, danced to the rich and powerful and says workers are lazy and get paid too much. I think absolutely everything that pulling Hanson stands for. Students are totally and utterly opposed to that, and it is really a massive threat to our interests because we've seen how think look in America, you know, the likes of Donald Trump supporting hundreds of thousands of people across America. She wants to do that here in Australia and that would be you know, supporting thousands of our peers. And I think we have a real responsibility to stand up to this and say no to Hanson.
00:01:39
Speaker 1: Is there an an Undercarrent Jordan of students who don't want Australia to become like Trump's America?
00:01:46
Speaker 2: I think totally. Like we've been following what's been going on. Yeah, in America, you have ice on the streets, supporting people, kidnapping people's neighbors, going into schools, universities and colleges and tearing people apart. And that's really been the project of you know, Donald Trump, with his far right politics. Paulin Hanson has been along Tomorrow lago, you know, chatting it up with him. She's been connected then with the far right in Europe. Recently met with Tommy Robinson and Rupert Low. I think it's a massive, massive reflection point for young people. Where are we going to let that actually happen here in Australia.
00:02:29
Speaker 1: Any idea of the numbers that you're expecting as part of the protest, Jordan, So I mentioned that you've got Flinders University in Adelaide University students taking part. Have you seen a real interest from high school kids wanting to be involved?
00:02:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, lots of different high schools across Adelaide we're expecting to be involved. This is part of a you know, national protest that's happening across the country and you know, we expect there to be thousands of students all across the country and I think it's really really important that yes, student come out at the classes make a disruption and actually that is that us putting our message out there. So we expect there'll be salsands across the country.
00:03:10
Speaker 1: So I know you've got Adelaide High School involved, Britannic High School, University, Senior College, Charles Campbell College. Are you expecting more schools to jump on as you get closer to the day.
00:03:20
Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, We're expecting students to come from a number of different schools, and we really encourage them to reach out and put forward what schools they're coming from, because yeah, really the response has been massive where students are really, like I've been saying before, like disturbed by the rise of paul In Anson and want to do something about this. And we saw how in the nineteen ninety is massive student walkouts across the universities and high schools all across the country. They played a really important role in pushing back against Hanson and we want to replicate that again.
00:03:56
Speaker 1: Jordan Armstrong is my guest, is a Adelaide University student and the organizer of the rally which is happening next week here in Adelaide, the Anti Pauline Hansoon Rally, which is South Australian students or students saying no to Hanson. You can imagine the feedback Jordan, that you're getting from five Double A listeners. I've got to say is split, so regular positive and then the negative. Emily says, I'm proud of young people. I did this when I was young. It helped me critically assess issues and vital social skills. My daughter has strong opinions. I encourage her to research and to be an active participant in a healthy democracy. On the flip side, Tony says, the kids just want a day off, protest on the weekends. Maybe protest to ben against Anthony Albernezi. He is the real killer of our future. What would just say to an older demographic five double A listeners who think you should be in school or university as opposed to protesting during the week Oh.
00:04:48
Speaker 2: Look, I think we're being absolutely absolutely failed by all the existing political institutions in Australia. Like the media has just been platforming, you know, Pauline Hands and One Nation, you know, giving her massive airtime and putting out her talking points. The Labor Party, I think has actually just really been tailing the likes of One Nation and refusing to stand up against them. Only recently Peter malanaskis voted alongside the far right in South Australia in opposing abortion legislation. Very shamefully. I think that it falls on students, shoulders really to have their say and let our voice be heard, that we refuse to sit down while the threat of the far right is here in Australia.
00:05:35
Speaker 1: So I saw Carlos Krember quoted in the paper. He was talking about the idea of getting together and have conversations between politicians and students. Are you at that point, Jordan, would you like to do that as a group or is this just a showing at first about how displeased the youth are of South Australia.
00:05:52
Speaker 2: Well, I think this is the first step in actually building a movement against one Nation, in pulling Hanson, because it's clear that they're going to be going away, and we can't go away either. We need to actually thoroughly oppose what they're talking about. And I don't think that the politics of one Nation the fireright should be part of our political fabric. To be honest, I don't think that, you know, there should be a conversation about whether there are good Muslims or not. That is absolutely disgusting. We want to actually oppose her on every single front, and it's we don't want to We want to actually give confidence to all the people who absolutely despise one Nation.
00:06:33
Speaker 1: Len says the role of schools in university should be to teach critical thinking, evaluate evidence, understand multiple perspectives. Not in doctor a nation do you find a university, Jordan. You're having these conversations like is there critical thinking going on at high schools and universities today about our politics.
00:06:50
Speaker 2: I think we're absolutely doing critical thinking right now about taking on this massive threat. You know, we learn about in history class the lessons of the rise of fascism in the nineteen thirties. Well, and it was right to oppose them then. Well, when we have this massive threat on our doorsteps here today, well we want to actually put those lessons into practice and do something like we refuse to be passive and silent on this question, and that is really about our future, the future of the world. We don't want the ruling the politics of our society to be about sexism, bigotry and discrimination. There is no place for that here in Australia. And it falls on students to walk out of class and take this on.
00:07:35
Speaker 1: Are you expecting educators, Are you expecting parents to join some of the students for the protest next week on Thursday.
00:07:42
Speaker 2: I mean, that's totally supportable. If they want to come along, they're welcome to. But we really encourage high school students, university students, students from all across the country to come out for this.
00:07:54
Speaker 1: Okay, So one pm Thursday and the Parliament steps.
00:07:57
Speaker 2: Yep, that's correct, one pm August thirteen. And this is happening all across the country as well. I am from Melbourne, Perth, Queensland, Canberra. All across the country students are going to be walking out of a class to say no to Paulling Hanson.
00:08:11
Speaker 1: Jordan, appreciate your time this afternoon. Thank you, thanks so much. Jordan Armstrong is a university student at the Adelaide University. He is also the rally organizer for Students Saying No to Hanson, Endorsed by the National Union of Students. The rally will be held in the city one pm next Thursday, the thirteenth of August, where they meet at the Parliament House steps.
