Meet the One Nation senator pushing for a “minister for men” – as there is for women – as she makes very compelling arguments for why they are disadvantaged in society
- One Nation has long advocated for an office for men
- Senator Sarah Game gave a speech to the SA Parliament
- She outlined men’s health problems and funding disparities
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has continued its efforts to establish a government office for men – as it is for women.
South Australian One Nation Senator Sarah Game questioned why an office had not been considered during a speech she gave at the state parliament last month.
Senator Game addressed the state’s attorney general before outlining men’s health concerns and gender disparity in health care funding.
“I have asked the Attorney General about the issues facing men and whether the government plans to set up a men’s issues office on May 2,” she began.
“And the answer I got was ‘I don’t need to refer that, I can let the honorable member know we don’t have that’.”
One Nation Senator Sarah Game (pictured) asked South Australian Attorney General, Kyam Maher, why an office for men had not been considered in a speech
Senator Game then read out damning statistics on men’s health.
“Almost half of Australian men are lonely and men with high levels of loneliness are eight-and-a-half times more likely to have poorer mental health,” she said.
Men are responsible for six out of eight suicides, nearly double the number of deaths on our national toll. And men are confronted with the worst mental and physical health than women during a family breakup.’
The One Nation politician then outlined the differences between health funding aimed at women and men.
She claimed that the recent federal budget earmarked $1.7 billion for gender-based violence, despite the fact that a quarter of domestic violence victims are men.
“Men’s life expectancy is about four years shorter than Australian women’s, yet the National Health and Medical Research Council has invested five times more in women’s health than in men’s health,” she said.
Senator Game then called on the Attorney General to explain why, in light of the data, the government was not considering an office for men “to address these issues.”
South Australia’s Attorney General Kyam Maher responded to the question by explaining that “strategies and programs had been and are being developed, adapted and introduced to address those areas.”
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson made a number of impassioned calls for men to run for government office in speeches she gave in federal parliament.
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson (pictured) has made similar speeches in federal parliament and campaigned for a government office for men
Her final speech, delivered on March 9, also delved into gender differences.
“I support helping women, but I will undoubtedly be the only woman speaking today for Australia’s most oppressed and neglected minority, men,” she said.
“It’s ironic that the women who give birth to men are so willing to fire and abandon them in order to bolster their orthodox, feminist credentials.”
Senator Hanson referred to data showing that Australian men were “over-represented” in suicide, prison, homelessness and unemployment, making up a quarter of domestic violence victims.
“What is being done to close these huge gaps? Nothing,’ she said.
The One Nation leader also denounced the family justice system, claiming it was “seriously aggrieved men.”
“Men deserve help with their health problems, men deserve much more recognition from this government and parliament,” she said.
“Shall we start with a Minister of Men?”