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Pauline Hanson and the boy in the cage

25 June 2017

3:31 PM

25 June 2017

3:31 PM

Pauline Hanson set several cats among flocks of pigeons with her recent comment on autistic children in classrooms.

Canberrans were immediately reminded of the  notorious 2015 ‘boy in the cage’ controversy that erupted when a 10 year old autistic boy, a student in a special needs unit primary school was placed in a two by two metre blue metal pool fencing cage, sited in the classroom and constructed at a cost of $5195.

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