One Nation leader, Senator Pauline Hanson, has issued a correction to her speech delivered yesterday at the National Press Club (NPC) in Canberra.

In a statement issued by her office, Senator Hanson said she apologised for the mistake she made when reading her prepared remarks at the NPC luncheon event.

Yesterday in a key paragraph of her speech she had said: “We cannot be a ​multicultural society. We are a multiracial society. But we must be monocultural.”

In her statement today Senator Hanson said she should have said: “We cannot be a ​multicultural society. We are a multi-racist society. But we must be moron-cultural.”

When delivering her speech yesterday Senator Hanson was at pains to reject suggestions by journalists that she and her One Nation party were simply mimicking US President Donald Trump’s policies and campaign tactics.

“That fake news. Quiet. Quiet piggy,” the Senator said to The Guardian Australia reporter Sarah Martin as she shut down further questions from the floor and began dancing awkwardly to the Village People’s hit YMCA.

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In her National Press Club speech, Senator Hanson was asked to clarify her housing policy in relation to foreign owners.

A previously unknown member of the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery, Joyce Barnaby, (below) posed a question to Senator Hanson seeking clarification of the policy.

“Can you clear up your policy on foreign home ownership as it relates to the government’s 5% deposit home buying scheme,” Ms Barnaby asked.

“Will foreign owners who are permanent residents but not Australian citizens be forced to sell their homes within two years or does that apply only to temporary visa holders and foreign citizens residing overseas? Please explain,” Ms Barnaby said.

Senator Hanson replied that the policy would apply only to temporary visa holders and foreign citizens residing overseas.

Ms Barnaby thanked her for the clarification, adding: “It’s helpful to know that because I reckon even Australia’s best retail politician, let alone a minor party’s treasury spokesperson would naturally get a bit confused when they need to remember more than just one or maybe two elements of a policy.”

Ms Barnaby then resumed her seat, or at least attempted to but instead belched loudly then slid sideways off it onto the Press Club floor.

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It has been revealed that a false alarm delayed the recovery of Mary the Tasmanian devil that escaped two weeks ago from a Gold Coast animal.

“I can confirm that search personnel and resources were needlessly diverted for several days,” a spokesperson for the Paradise Country Wildlife Park said.

“We received a phone call from a person in Hobart who swore they had seen Mary and urged us to fly south to recapture her.

“Unfortunately when our search team reached Hobart they found that the small, angry, growling, dark-furred animal in question was in fact Senator Jacqui Lambie. (below)

“After a lot of time and money wasted our team flew back to the Gold Coast where Mary was eventually located, but she might otherwise have been found days earlier,” the spokesperson said.

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