Essay by Eric Worrall
The Video is Defamatory? – a hilarious political satire video, legal threats, and a thin skinned rich kid with no sense of humour.
Robert Irwin is the son of Steve Irwin, the famous Aussie TV explorer, who sadly died while filming a documentary in an unlikely marine accident.
Robert Irwin is also the face of a recently launched Queensland state government funded tourism campaign. But the uninspiring tourist campaign videos have been completely overshadowed by Pauline Hanson’s satirical poke at the incompetence of Queensland’s radical green state administration.
Instead of laughing it off, Robert Irwin has sent legal threats to Pauline Hanson, leader of One Nation, demanding she take down the video.
One Nation’s Pauline Hanson responds to defamation threat by Robert Irwin
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson responds to Robert Irwin’s threat of defamation over her latest cartoon episode.
Tileah Dobson Cadet Journalist@TD0bbi
June 17, 2024 – 7:15PMPauline Hanson has declared she won’t remove the latest controversial episode of Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain, after Robert Irwin threatened to sue the One Nation leader.
The 20-year-old son of iconic wildlife legend Steve Irwin has claimed a satirical cartoon that features him is defamatory and has requested it be removed.
Senator Hanson shared her response from Gillis Delaney Lawyers, who are acting on her behalf, in a post to X, formerly Twitter.
“I will not be removing the latest episode of Pauline Hanson’s Please Explain,” she wrote on the post.
“I look forward to the day when Robert and I can have a good laugh over this and turn our focus to making Queensland a better state.”
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“You are potentially liable to our client in respect of defamation, deceptive use of a person’s image, passing off and misleading and deceptive conduct,” the letter states.
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“It’s being able to laugh at yourself, it’s being able to go ‘that’s the fluff’ and the opinionated stuff — people will always have their point of view,” Irwin said, during the interview. – Robert Irwin in 2022.
Sky News take on the situation (Sky News is a Murdoch Media outlet, like Fox News in the USA);
Every item raised in the “Please Explain” satire represents a real political issue which affects Queensland or the entire nation of Australia. We really are experiencing substantial destruction of protected habitat to make way for green energy, which has driven some greens to team up with conservatives to put a stop of it. We have controversial beach front native title grants in populated areas, roads full of pot holes, a rental crisis caused by a perfect storm of demographics, unbalanced tenants rights laws, and skyrocketing property values. We have a severely underperforming state health system, and youth crime so out of control alleged vigilantes have started taking to the streets in the worst affected areas. Our state premier also sometimes giggles inappropriately.
Let’s hope Robert Irwin grows up and comes to his senses, and has the guts to acknowledge Pauline Hanson made some valid points in her satire video, before he makes even more of a fool of himself in public.
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