AVI YEMINI | Warren Pickering on why Victoria needs REAL leadership
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Summary
In this episode of The Yaminireport, host Alex Blanchflower is joined by Warren Pickering, the lead Victorian Senator candidate for the One Nation Party, to discuss the upcoming election and the party's campaign strategy in Victoria.
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We're one week into the election campaign, and my approach until Australia heads to the polls
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is to engage with guests who are actively fighting to reclaim our nation.
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This week, I'm joined by Warren Pickering, the lead Victorian Senate candidate for One Nation.
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Welcome back to the Yaminireport, and it's election season.
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I know, some of us, or some of them have already been in election season for months,
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But, in the lead-up to the election, the people that I want to talk to are those that are making a difference,
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And no one makes more of a difference, more of an impact, than the very one, Nation.
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A party that I've been following for a long time.
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In fact, it was my first introduction into the political realm, the political world,
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was when I made the grave mistake in inviting Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts
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Oh, well, man, I did not realise inviting elected officials could cause such a shitstorm.
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And what a shock it was when the AFP ended up shutting down our event
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because outsiders came to gatecrash and threaten the local Jewish community.
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Outsiders now that are recognised, the same ones we see marching on the streets every week
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against the Jewish community, they were willing back then in 2017
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to come and protest a Jewish event in which Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts
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came to speak because they just, because they're so tolerant.
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We're talking about everything around the election and One Nation in Victoria.
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For those who don't actually know who you are, go and introduce yourself.
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And, you know, there's never been a better time to get behind One Nation in Victoria.
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and I am the lead senator candidate for the One Nation party.
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I've also assumed the responsibility of state director for these last three or so years
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since I was first endorsed on a federal ticket in 2022.
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Look, my background is I grew up in Gippsland, Victoria, country boy, bricklayer for 10 years,
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then joined the army as a combat engineer, combat operations,
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and humanitarian aid disaster relief ops all around the planet,
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and back to sunny Victoria to try and fix things sort of post-COVID to get engaged.
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So, look, I never saw politics on my own horizon.
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I, to this point, I'm not good at self-promotion.
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But the trouble is, as soon as I got a little bit involved,
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I went down the rabbit hole and realized that, look,
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there is an absolute desperate need for real people to get involved in the political sphere in this country.
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You know, we moved political science from the syllabus in the 1980s,
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and I think as a result, we are all largely politically illiterate in this country.
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So, yeah, running an active education campaign and trying to enlighten some people
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Well, I want to start by thank you, firstly, for your service.
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And I guess your service now is to try and trying at least to push it.
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but I care less about which of the minor right-wing parties
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I feel like we just need to push some of those in.
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You know, the best outcome for me in this election would be
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a liberal minority government in which, you know,
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Mate, that's sort of what I've been pitching to people as well.
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As much as we'd love to say we're going to secure a whole swag of our seats
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while I do foresee that potentially happening within my lifetime,
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You might have to form government with Trumpets of Patriots
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because I believe that they're going to have a prime minister.
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Look, but that's what I've been pitching to people as well.
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with one of the other freedom-friendly-minded parties
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Yes, of course, I have a bias that I'd like it to be my party.
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But I believe firmly that One Nation is the most capable vehicle
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And I think realistically what we could pick up
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have to potentially form something of a coalition
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We can pull that party back to its conservative base.
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We can quite literally block bad legislation in the Senate.
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you were standing as a Senate candidate as well.