Congratulations, Melbourne. You’re the proud beneficiary of a yet another piece of street art in honour of One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
The mural, a non-Council sanctioned masterpiece created by artist and activist Van T Rudd, has been painted on the wall of the Western Bulldogs AFL club in Footscray, and features the club’s loveable mascot taking a casual piss on the gingernut politician’s face.
It’s arrival marks the latest in a proud national tradition of taking the mickey out of Hanson, which began when Pauline Pantsdown’s ‘I Don’t Like It’ first graced our airwaves back in 1998, and has supplied a soothing antidote (for any Aussie not in possession of a “FUCK OFF WE’RE FULL” T-shirt) to the fear-mongering, gross misinformation and paranoid xenophobia that often informs Hanson’s policies.
“I wanted to show that racism and extreme right-wing politics won’t be tolerated in Melbourne’s west,” Rudd says in a Facebook post accompanying a snap of the new mural, which expertly takes the piss out of Hanson while simultaneously putting the piss on her. “And shouldn’t be tolerated anywhere of course.”
This isn’t the first time an artist has poked fun at Hanson in Melbourne. Last year, controversial artist Lushsux added a hijab to a Pauline Hanson mural in order to make it “more tolerant”.
So while we wait for the next Pauline mural to pop up, have a LOL at her expense and mask your terror for the fate of our nation’s soul with Van T Rudd’s piece, below.
UPDATE: The Hanson portion of the mural has now been painted over. See below.
