The Prime Minister, John Howard, says Pauline Hanson’s speech last night, in which she commented on Aboriginal Australians, “verges on the deranged”.

Howard was responding to Hanson’s claims that Aborigines receive preferential treatment in government funding.

He was interviewed on Radio National by Fran Kelly.

Transcript of John Howard’s interview with Fran Kelly on Radio National.

KELLY: Prime Minister, Pauline Hanson has again accused Aboriginal Australians of getting preferential treatment in Government funding. She says she’ll campaign against the existence of native title and she has warned that Aboriginal Australians and the United Nations are plotting to establish taxpayer funded Aboriginal states. Are these sentiments racist? [Read more…]