Former Australian actor Paul Hogan posing in front of a poster for his movie “Crocodile Dundee in Los Angels” at a Tokyo hotel on June 6, 2001. Yoshikazu Tsuno/AFP/Getty Images
Former comedian and actor Paul Hogan, best known for the hit Crocodile Dundee series, has delivered a harsh rebuke of conservative-leaning Australian leader Pauline Hanson.
Hanson name-dropped the 1980s star Hogan during a Senate speech last week where she stood by her push for Australia to reject multiculturalism, and spruiked the value of a “monocultural” society.
“Accepting Australia means accepting our culture and the values, customs and traditions which define it—a fair go, tolerance, secular democracy, freedom of speech, religion and the rule of law,” Hanson told the Senate.
“It means accepting our irreverence and larrikinism. Bring back Paul Hogan and Norman Gunston. These are the essential features of Australian monoculture, and there’s nothing remotely exclusionary about them.”
Hogan and Gunston were both known for delivering an iconic blend of playful Australian humour.
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One Nation Leader Senator Pauline Hanson is seen with people attending the Australia Marches rally during Australia Day celebrations in Brisbane, Australia on Jan. 26, 2026. AAP Image/Darren England
“I’ve always had a very simple rule—what makes a good Australian is wanting to be one,” he told the Australian Financial Review.
“My old gang [in Sydney] was an Assyrian, a Thursday Islander, a Welshman, an Aboriginal, a couple of Irish convicts. It was the same cosmopolitan types everywhere I worked, Italians, Greek, Irish, Chinese, a bit of everybody there. That’s the way we were.
“How can it be a monoculture? We’re all migrants, except the Aboriginals, who as far as we know have been [in Australia] for 60,000 years.”
Hanson has remained steadfast that her concept of monoculture isn’t about excluding different cultures, but about having an overarching belief and values system.
“They’ve tried to claim it means no one will have any takeaway to choose from, what nonsense.
“It’s pretty simple. We want everyone, no matter colour, ethnicity or background, to be united under one flag and travelling towards the one goal—of a fair and equal Australia.”
“Remember what sparked the riots in Cronulla, Muslims attacking Australian women for wearing bikinis at the beach in a hot Australian summer,” she told the Senate.
“It’s the bare minimum we should be demanding. It’s where we should be drawing the line on things incompatible with our culture, like Sharia law, child marriages, roaming armed gangs, female circumcision, sex-selective abortion, and the burqa.”
