Conservative radio host Ray Hadley has demanded that One Nation leader Pauline Hanson apologise for her most recent comments about Muslims.
Hadley said Hanson must apologise to the “vast majority of Australian Muslims” after saying Islam “concerns her”, adding inaccurately that Muslims “hate Westerners.”
The former 2GB media identity stressed that a minority “think like Pauline Hanson.”
“What Pauline said was just wrong, really wrong. Sometimes she gets so wound up, like a spring, and she says things that she shouldn’t say.
“The fact that she’s empowered by the polls, she thinks she’s gotta keep driving that wedge, and I think she’s wrong.”
Hanson’s newest comments came during an interview with Sky presenter Sharri Markson on Monday night, where she warned that continuing to welcome Muslim immigrants will see Australia “suffer as other countries have, like France and Denmark, England and Canada.”
Hanson further stated: “I’ve got no time for the radical Islam, their religion concerns me because what it says in the Quran.
“They hate Westerners, and that’s what it’s all about. You say there’s great Muslims out there, well I’m sorry, how can you tell me there are good Muslims?”
Pauline Hanson talks to Sharri Markson. Image: Sky News
Visibly shocked, Markson responded, “There are a lot of moderate Muslims in Australia who are, as you put it, good Muslims. I think we can agree that radical extremist Islam that doesn’t support Australian values, has no place here.”
The presenter then shared a personal story about meeting an Australian Muslim Uber driver while covering the 2025 Bondi Beach massacre, who helped victims.
“This is just one example of someone who doesn’t share the values of extremist Islam,” she said.
Hadley later agreed during his apology demand: “We don’t want the wrong people coming here. We want good people coming here, and in the main we do get good people.”