Jacqui Lambie says Pauline Hanson has still not personally apologised over a One Nation cartoon that mocked her vaginal prolapse, despite her later expressing regret as backlash mounted.
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Speaking with ABC Insiders host David Speers on Sunday, Senator Lambie said Hanson had not contacted her directly following backlash over the cartoon.
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Initially, Hanson dismissed the concerns and urged Lambie to 'lighten up'.
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However, she later reversed course and requested that the video's creator alter the content following the backlash.
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The cartoon has since been removed from One Nation's official YouTube channel.
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'No, there has been no direct apology,' Lambie said when asked by Speers whether Hanson had contacted her personally.
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Lambie suggested any apology was prompted by public outrage rather than genuine remorse.
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'The only reason she would have apologised [is] because I have a million people I can reach out to between my socials and mailouts and all the rest, because I've seen it coming through within a matter of hours, the people and the women out there going, "you've got to be kidding me.
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This is absolutely disgraceful",' she said.
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Jacqui Lambie (pictured) revealed that Hanson had not apologised to her personally
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I can give and take, I'm not interested in apologies.'
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Released last month, the cartoon depicted Lambie as backing the government's proposed digital duty of care, intended to strengthen online protections for children and give users greater control over the content they encounter.
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It portrayed the proposed changes as a crackdown on free speech, with Lambie's character declaring that One Nation's animated Please Explain series has 'gotta go'.
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'Oh, I hear it's funny sometimes,' a caricature of Senator Penny Wong said.
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'No, it's not, plus I can't laugh because of my prolapsed vagina,' the cartoon Lambie responded.
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'Oh, don't tell me they've made fun of that, have they?' a caricature of Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said.
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'No, that'd be very distasteful,' Lambie's character replied.
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During Lambie's ABC Insiders interview Sunday, she also launched a broader attack on Hanson, warning voters not to believe One Nation could quickly solve Australia's problems.
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Lambie said Hanson (pictured) was not going to fix the issues most concerning to voters
Asked about her current relationship with Hanson, Lambie replied bluntly: 'I don't have a relation with Pauline Hanson.'
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While she said she had a strong working relationship with One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts, Lambie admitted dealing with Hanson had proved difficult when the pair held the balance of power.
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'I've worked with Pauline in the past.
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When we had the balance of power, we found that very, very difficult from an office point of view,' she said.
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'She'll tell you she's doing one thing and that's five minutes beforehand, and then you walk into the Senate to take your vote and she's on the other side.
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Lambie also warned voters against flocking towards One Nation amid rising financial pressures and dissatisfaction with major parties.
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Speers asked what was driving the surge in support for Hanson's party.
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They're under financial strain,' Lambie said.
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'When you're under financial strain and your head is full of fog and you can't think properly and you have all that pressure on you, you do really, really silly things and you don't think about things properly.'
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One Nation was criticised for mocking Jacqui Lambie's vaginal prolapse in their cartoon
She argued economic hardship was fuelling political volatility but cautioned voters against expecting Hanson to deliver easy answers.
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'If you think Pauline Hanson can step in tomorrow, run the country and fix all your problems overnight, you are terribly disillusioned,' Lambie said.
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Speers noted Lambie's repeated calls for leaders to 'dial the temperature down' and asked whether politics had changed during her time in parliament.
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Lambie said public frustration had worsened since the pandemic, amplified by social media.
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'There is a lot of aggro going on out there in the normal streets and that is enough.
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So can we just please calm that down?' she said.
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Despite admitting she had sometimes contributed to heated political rhetoric in the past, Lambie called for less focus on insults and more on policy.
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'What we need right now, times are tough, and if we need anything right now, it's unity,' she said.
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'We are the top office in this country and we must lead by example.
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