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Pauline Hanson apologises for ‘primitive’ slur · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: The Front's afternoon headlines. Pauline Hanson says she doesn't want
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  Speaker 1: to upset anyone and regrets comments where she called Aboriginal
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  Speaker 1: people primitive. A storm blew up this week after comments
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  Speaker 1: made by Hanson more than a year ago on a
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  Speaker 1: podcast hosted by commentator Jamie Johnston resurfaced. Here's Hanson on
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  Speaker 1: the JJ podcast back in September 2025. And I'll say
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  Speaker 1: it on your programs.
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  Speaker 2: What the hell have they done in this country? For
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  Speaker 2: supposedly 60,000 years, they'd never invented the wheel. There was
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  Speaker 2: nothing there. What are we actually holding up? A few,
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  Speaker 2: you know, rock paintings? Sorry. They're the most primitive race
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  Speaker 2: on earth. And we're supposed to be holding up and
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  Speaker 2: saying what they've achieved. They've achieved nothing. I'm not taking
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  Speaker 2: back from the race. They are a race of people.
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  Speaker 2: They are Australians. By all means. But to change and
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  Speaker 2: do treaties that is actually going to destroy who we
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  Speaker 2: are as a nation, everything's got to go through these people.
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  Speaker 2: And to say that, when they had the vote in Victoria,
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  Speaker 2: only 7% or 10% turned out.
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  Speaker 1: Warren Mundine said this same thing to us.
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  Speaker 2: They actually did it a second time and there's still
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  Speaker 2: only 7%. Correct. They're not even interested. I've been to
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  Speaker 2: these Aboriginal communities. They don't want this. They want unity.
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  Speaker 2: They don't want the divisiveness. It's the activists pushing this
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  Speaker 2: agenda and it's creating division. And I'll be upfront and
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  Speaker 2: honest with it. I don't want it. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: the changes in our name. I don't want the welcome
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  Speaker 2: to country. I don't want kids being taught Aboriginal language.
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  Speaker 2: For what?
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  Speaker 1: And here's what Hanson said about it on News 24
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  Speaker 1: on Tuesday morning after blowback from across the political spectrum,
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  Speaker 1: including Indigenous leaders.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Kieran, I've always put my foot in my mouth
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  Speaker 2: and why I come out and say things. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: the most eloquent speaker in how I deliver something, what
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  Speaker 2: I say. And, you know, but those comments were about
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  Speaker 2: a teacher that wrote to me and they said, where
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  Speaker 2: we're going, what we have to teach. What I've always
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  Speaker 2: called for in Australia is equality for all Australians. And
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  Speaker 2: I have been the one screaming that before Jacinta Menendez-Price
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  Speaker 2: came on board as a Member of Parliament. Right from
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  Speaker 2: the very beginning, I've called for equality for all Australians.
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  Speaker 2: You should not be treated differently because of your race.
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  Speaker 2: It should be on a needs basis. I've always called
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  Speaker 2: out for accountability. I've called out the third world living conditions.
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  Speaker 2: I've called about the rape that's going on in these communities.
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  Speaker 2: No-one has done a damn thing about it.
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  Speaker 1: Hansen was then asked about her remarks at a media conference.
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  Speaker 2: If I offend people by using that, yes, I will
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  Speaker 2: apologise for that. You're sorry, you're sorry. I will not
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  Speaker 2: back away from what needs to be discussed.
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  Speaker 1: Apple has introduced age verification on its devices in Australia,
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  Speaker 1: requiring adults to confirm they're over 18 on their devices
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  Speaker 1: by scanning an official ID document such as a passport
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  Speaker 1: or driver's licence. Existing Apple customers might not have to
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  Speaker 1: go through verification, with Apple saying it'll check if you
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  Speaker 1: have a credit card on file to confirm you're over 18.
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  Speaker 1: The idea is to prevent children downloading apps or turn
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  Speaker 1: off safety settings that are rated 18+. Apple's already created
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  Speaker 1: new features, including cutting off FaceTime calls if explicit content
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  Speaker 1: is shown and automatically blurring explicit photographs or other material
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  Speaker 1: if it's sent to under 18s via Apple Messaging. Anthony
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  Speaker 1: Albanese has previously said Apple's former CEO Tim Cook said
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  Speaker 1: the upgraded security features were a result of Australia's world-first
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  Speaker 1: social media ban for under-16s. Check out those stories live
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  Speaker 1: right now at theaustralian.com.au. And come back to the front
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  Speaker 1: first thing in the morning for our look at another
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  Speaker 1: big tech-related yarn breaking right now. The fight within the
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  Speaker 1: government over Australia's embrace of artificial intelligence and why the
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  Speaker 1: AI companies are playing hardball. That's right here Wednesday morning.