Watching the rise of Pauline Hanson and the renewed chatter about One Nation as a plausible alternative government, it is worth applying a simple test of reality.
Strip away the slogans, the outrage and the grievance politics, and ask one basic question: are they equipped to govern?
The answer becomes stark if we translate politics into a setting Australians understand well: a school.
Imagine an established, high-performing school. Parents expect stability, professional leadership and strong outcomes. Now imagine sacking the experienced staff and replacing them with a whole school of first-year-out teachers with no formal training in education. No grounding in curriculum. No understanding of student welfare. No experience managing classrooms under pressure.
Then appoint a principal who has never held a leadership role, has no articulated vision for the school, seeks to exclude large parts of the community, turns up only about half the time — and still promises parents the top HSC results in the state.
That is what treating One Nation as a serious alternative government amounts to.
Government, like education, is not theatre. It is a craft. It requires experience, deep institutional knowledge, policy discipline, teamwork and the capacity to manage crises without improvisation or tantrums. One Nation has none of this. It offers anger instead of policy, slogans instead of costings, and protest instead of preparation.
Pauline Hanson has been in public life for decades, yet One Nation remains a party without a coherent policy framework across health, education, national security, climate or the economy. Its parliamentary presence has been sporadic and its internal organisation chaotic. The party cycles through candidates and staff with alarming speed, often leaving a trail of resignations, infighting and legal disputes. This is not a training ground for government; it is a warning sign.
Even Hanson’s own parliamentary record undercuts the claim that she is ready to lead. Leadership starts with showing up, mastering briefs, scrutinising legislation and doing the unglamorous work of governance – which she doesn’t. Hanson’s attendance record sits at around 50%. If this was school attendance it would be raising serious concerns, and she would be asked for a “please explain”. Turning politics into a rolling grievance tour does not build schools — or countries.
Supporters often argue that One Nation “speaks for the forgotten”. But representation without responsibility is not leadership. In education, we would never accept a teacher who “feels strongly” about students but refuses training, preparation or accountability. We understand instinct is no substitute for expertise when children’s futures are on the line.
The same is true of a nation’s future.
Australia faces complex challenges: workforce shortages, housing affordability, cost-of-living pressures, regional inequality, climate transition and geopolitical instability. These are not problems solved by protest votes or ideological shortcuts. They require the political equivalent of qualified teachers, experienced principals and a clear, evidence-based plan.
Treating One Nation as an alternative government is not an act of rebellion. It is an act of recklessness — like gambling a school’s future on inexperience and hoping outrage will magically produce excellence.
Anger can get you attention. It cannot get you results — and it is no foundation for One Nation as a serious alternative government.
Denise McHugh is an experienced educator in Tamworth. She is Chair of the NSW ALP Education and Skills Committee and Deputy President of the Independent Education Union (IEU).
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Kim Lucas One Nation is not the answer. People need to expect more of their elected representatives and hold them to account.
Good article. Well worth the read 👍
I’ll be looking for depth of talent, experience and runs on the board. I will reject simplistic arguments designed to trigger fear and distrust.
Trevor Barrett that is not correct and you need to read this article again with the view of who wrote it as they must hate normal taxpayers
New England Times good analogy
If Hanson is a reflection of Australian values we’re cooked.
Can’t stand her, she’s not for the battler, far from it. I can see why she’s on the Epstein files.
Backing ON over the UniParty is the best thing we could do. Too many arrogant elitists in lib lab who have no interest in anything but feathering their nests at ordinary Australians expense. I don’t know if ON will be successful as a govt. They will have a massive mess left by previous governments before they can get started. I do know it’s time to give someone else a go because we have been let down by both Libs and Lab for the past 50 or 60 yrs. We need change…now
May Anders
So you are saying people who dodge their work commitments are good for the country???
Just like The Mad Red Head does…
She is hardly ever in the house to vote…
She only has one job to do and she dodges that…
How the hell could she run the country ???
When there is a hard decision to make she wouldn’t turn up…
Ericka Irvine They are nearly as wacky as she is, including Joyce., a denier of the climate science advice from his own Chief Scientist when he was Deputy PM. Climate and medical science deniers, racists and bigots. How much ignorance and dangerous hatred can you fit in one party?
David Renn rather than list all of One Nations policies here, I suggest you visit their website where their policies are listed for everyone to see.
Hanson has never bothered to build anything beyond slogans.
One Nation started with a bang in ’98—anti-immigration, anti-elite, working-class rage. Fine for a protest.
But where’s the policy machine? The research, the lawyers, the think-tank?
They recycle talking points: lock the borders, kick out the “globalists,” bring back coal.
No detail on how— no costings, no timelines, no fallback when courts or Senate kill it.
It’s emotion, not blueprint.
And Hanson herself? She’s the brand. Without her, it’s nothing. That’s not a party— that’s a fan club with seats.
Protest works to get in, but you can’t run a country on “make Australia great” without the manual.
Remember Abbott and his continuously saying no to everything when he was opposition leader. It’s the same thing. Abbott lasted about two years before the party and then his own electorate eventually booted him out of politics altogether. He was another protester without substance.
Hanson simply doesn’t understand what governing a country really means.
Bruce Thomas I just read my post again. No mention of her being PM. No mention about how many seats she will win. I did mention that propaganda will be backed by the major parties. Seems with your comments your a Labour or Liberal stooge. Exactly the people I mentioned above
Bruce Wallace that was the plan when they had 12 % of the vote and may still be their plan but I have spoken to Malcolm Roberts and Pauline Hanson about the potential of changing that plan due to the fact that they are now where they are at 27% and still growing and their replies have been that 2 years is a long time in politics and that nothing is necessarily off the table but right now there is a focus on building a party that will be prepared to take government if they win but they are being very realistic and not getting ahead of themselves decisions like that are not pressing just at the moment 2 years away from the election
She is the arch career politician. Also, she is often absent from her job in the Senate. Whenever she has voted it has been against the interests of battlers.
The voters of New England should be rightly appalled at Barnaby’s defection.
Let’s hope they get a good offering of National and Independent candidates in ‘28 and boot him out!
Good analogy
Steve West the amusing thing about these kinds of comment threads is that people put the politicians on a massive pedestal like somehow they are different from every other human being and they idealise them as though to be there they should be perfect . The reality is there is no single person on the face of the planet that actually could measure up to the expectations humanity is flawed we all have faults the only difference between you and I and the people in political positions is that our flaws are not interrogated and published to the whole population of the country and we get to sit in our loungerooms and analyse and critique every mistake these people make in their private lives and so when someone mentions Barnaby Joyce instead of talking about what his policy positions are and debating whether or not his policy is good for the country or not people start commenting on his drinking habits and his private affairs and the real issues get lost the reality is I will judge my politicians based on whether or not they implement policy that improves the country and the economy and helps my children have a better future period
‘Can’t afford’ is putting it lightly! Australia couldn’t survive it. Look at the Ugly States of America!!!!!
Steve Terek – no. It’s more that I would like to see a summary of policy outlined, or some, I don’t know, detail outlined – otherwise who knows what you’re actually voting for.
I mean, if you don’t know, vote no – right?
“Plausible alternative”?! No chance. How many seats has the party ever won? 🤔
Lexis Campbell who determines right from wrong?
Two years to go, long time to stay at the top. She could walk out under a bus.
Peter Simpson – to be fair Peter, I’ve been looking for them. I have found a heap of things that PH voted against in the senate. Most of which would have made
Life better for working Australians.
Like I know you think it’s a leap of faith, but surely track record counts too, right?
Matthew Attrill I can see you’re committed to your level of understanding. I admire that level of dedication to something you really have no idea about. But hey, each to his own. Better go and find someone to blame for your problems and inadequacies. That’s the ON way.
Steve Terek I’ve been trying to find a good overview of ON policy, but still looking 😊 I have, however, found a list of legislation that PH voted against in the senate. All of which would have made life better for working Australians,
I agree with you that we need change, but surely track record counts too?
Surely the test will be what happens to the seat of New England in 2028 (the time of the nest election). As all residents in New England would know the seat is held by Barnaby Joyce who was sent to Canberra in May 2025 as a National Party member to represent them. New England has been held by the Country Party/National Party since its creation and was once held by Earl Page (a deputy PM) and Ian Sinclair (also a deputy PM). About 6 months into his 3 year term Joyce left the Nats and joined One Nation at the same time signalling his intention to stand for the Senate at the 2028 election. Will the voters in New England vote for a a National Party candidate in 2028 or will they opt for a One Nation candidate? I don’t live in the electorate but my feeling is they will revert to the Nats. Some claim Joyce is the best retail politician (whatever that is) in Australia so it will be a test of his and One Nation’s following if he can persuade the voters of New England to vote for One Nation. He will probably win a Senate seat so it won’t have any impact on him. Can One Nation form a government? NO! Could they hold the balance of power? Unlikely? Can Pauline Hanson be PM? NO (not while she is in the Senate and while One Nation holds 1 seat in the lower house which they are likely to lose at the 2028 election).
She needs to attend Parliament more than 55% of the time. Any other job she would be shown the door. No bills passed by Pauline in over 30 years. She says no to every bill that couldhelp every hardworking Aussie. She and Barnabee cause trouble by making disagreeable, nasty comments in communitees that they have never even visited. Australia needs to be united and peacefully. On is anything but that.
Pauline Hanson is one very silly woman.
She has neither the education or nouse to hold such an Office. If you look in her eyes, there is nothing behind them except
very small- mindedness, bigotry, misogyny and a large dose of racism and no respect
for anyone.
And in just a few words enlighten us on exactly how this would be done , point us all in the right direction where we can read ON policies and recommendations for this magnificent change or even (1) policy that ON has put forward in 30 years FFS
But please vote for these grifters at the next election Labor , Greens and independents will win even more seats from the LNP
Well written and sadly true ( if perhaps a little exaggerated ) . However , it only shows one side of the problem , surprisingly enough side of the current “ teachers and school board “ , and assumes they have skill and moral rectitude , while the “ parents and students “ are reckless and ignorant . So let’s rephrase the narrative from the opposite perspective and let the reader decide .
Imagine a highly performing school where the teachers are increasingly corrupt and the fees are so out of control that parents are being forced to keep paying while the teachers spend more money on themselves and other non educational related projects than they do on the education of the pupils ; While the pass marks are continually dropping yet the board of governors redefine the pass criteria to make to make results look good . They also create new rules that prohibit parents from questioning the system and ostracise anyone who challenges the declining standards . Parents are therefore so fed up that they feel they have no choice to replace the existing team and take on a set of 1st year grads to try to get things back on track ? How about that for a comparison or a lesson in reality ?
Gregory Joseph Patterson political leaders and the media stirring up division and racism. There is no mass immigration. It is in fact lower than under the Liberal Party with Peter Dutton as Immigration Minister.
Ken Burton The Labor Party is 150 years past the experimental stage and is in dozens of nations and still going strong.
Matt Buchanan 94 seats suggest otherwise.
Matt Buchanan Your entitled to an opinion but why can’t all conservatives reply in a polite and dignified manner?
How could people such as yourself ever unite our great nation? A. You can’t!
Mark Burfurd you are dead right. A party which has Australia soley as their priority is really the only govt we should have. The Greens came from nothing and had some power. We are going to see lots of these negative reports among other nasty insulting posts until next election, but thats only because they are desperate to stop Pauline attracting a large following. They cant gaol her this time because we are all watching. John Howard and Tony Abbott are circling just waiting to pounce, but they are not going to get the chance.
Lindenbrae Libby not really. They have driven large swathes of the community towards the far right. Or was that Labor’s plan all along?
Jodie Litchfield she would no doubt have also criticised the train driver from Bathurst NSW that became prime minister due to his lack of experience…….and she would have had egg all over her smug intellectual face because he became one of the best and most productive prime ministers Australia has ever seen.
The Liberals are the Titanic and the Nationals are the iceberg that’s sinking them! One Nation is the water rushing into the big hole the iceberg impact left in the sinking ship!
Ken Burton The Australian Labor Party (ALP) was established federally in
1901. Its origins date back to 1891, when the labor movement formed political parties in several Australian colonies (notably Queensland) following the shearers’ strikes. It is Australia’s oldest political party, with federal, state, and territory branches.
That implies experience in actually running the country. Successfully.
Why would voting for a political party be an experiment? The Greens didn’t exist and got created and they get voted for. One Nation had been fielding candidates for years but now voting for them is an experiment ??? Doesn’t make sense. The greens are part of the government. One nation can be too. So can the shooters party, cannabis party. That’s how democracy works
The solution is pretty simple. Analogy: When government starts to look like qualified teachers quietly doing their jobs well, most parents stop shopping for radical alternatives.
Walter Mitty lol the country’s going fine mate. It’s just conservatives are having a massive dummy spit because they’ve had their heads handed to them at the last two elections. It’s them/ you who need to change. The country has moved on, and did decades ago.
Cameron Burge which exact bill did one nation oppose, I would like to see this one. Every bill that someone has showed me so far, like the “ housing affordability” bill she opposed, had several other policies added inside of it. She wouldn’t be rising like this, if she was voting against everything she stands for, but labor voters don’t do the research, and just read the bills name
Mario Pacino well on that, PH always votes AGAINST strengthening wages, and measures to make housing more affordable. She’s not your answer
Ericka Irvine lol she’s been in politics since 1996. If she’s not up to running the place by now (and she obviously isn’t) then maybe she doesn’t deserve your vote
Shane Kinman spot on! Union started labor just like big business started LNP and Now Pauline and the grifters!! 👍
Dan Moore He’ll be able to do the groundwork , he likes lying around and checking it out closely
Rubbish they have had a full swathe of policies for 20 years it’s the media and the major parties who constantly lie and claim they have no policies outside of immigration it’s a lie they not only have policies on every major important issue they also have fully costed their policies
HA Rivas I wasn’t born till 1954 and Chifley was PM prior to my birth. He was a great man, a great politician and a great Prime Minister. No I wouldn’t have laughed at his humble beginnings just like I didn’t laugh at Anthony Albanese and his humble beginnings. PM Albanese is also without doubt the best and most productive PM we have had so far this Century.
What has Pauline done in her 31 years in politics that has benefited a single Australian mate? She votes against the little guy 100% of the time.
She’s a pathetic simpleton, with no idea of what is happening. Get rid of her.
Australian cannot afford anymore self-interest and lying politicians which this country has been putting up with for decades.
Corey Dunlop I reckon the world wide political situation is a god-awful mess and that the ALP is doing by FAR the best job in the circumstances, and without being a bigoted bunch of racists and reactionaries.
She cant govern its a 2 party preferred system.. Her preference votes will go to liberal
Her popularity is a media fever dream paid for by Gina Rinehart. and I’m wondering how many other media organisations are in on the scam. they have done no end of damage to the libs & Nats and i see no problem with that
Really and truly, if she’s achieved nothing in the past 30 yrs, now in her seventies, what’s she suddenly going to achieve at this late stage of her life?
Isabella Dean then why is ALP worried?
Barnaby Joyce walking in the footsteps of Mark Latham …
Gregory Joseph Patterson Albanese is not fit to tie Chifley’s shoelaces. All I see with him is a dismal failure that would have been sacked long ago if he was in private industry and other than sending us into spiralling debt what has made him so great ?
So .Pauline has to rope in 3 partys to get numbers..sounds like cheating to me.
Mark Burfurd you reckon you’ve got it bad now? It would be a complete disaster if ON and Pauline Hanson were in control. They would do so much damage to the country and things would get a lot worse trust me. And it does without saying there’s really no room for someone and a party that is overly racist. It makes you a racist by association 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Russell Hornby I’m far more confident of Government just comparing the crazy changes we are following in every other Western Democracy.Reform are current more than 4 times the votes of Labour in the UK
If people are worried about the rise of One Nation and want to blame anyone then don’t look any further than the current mainstream politicians who are obviously not reading the room 🤷🏻♂️
I used to think we had people in this country smart enough not to fall for American style hate speeches masquerading as politics.
God was I wrong, we are doomed as a country.
She went from owning a fish and chip shop before she went into politics to now having a net worth of over 21 million. How’d she make that sort of dough? Good investments? Yeah, nah she’s corrupt as hell.
I guess most of the people here dont bother looking at what the government does. It just all about the “feels’. Currently we have a stable government that are running the country and doing a good job across almost all the various markers for governance and economic management.
But hey, let’s not have facts get in the road of emotions. Hanson and One Nation would be a great choice.
One Nations candidate, Adrian Deeth pleaded guilty and was convicted of 15 breaches of a Family Violence Protection Order. He remains an endorsed candidate of Pauline Hanson.
Mark Burfurd you need to do a bit of research. You have a short memory. The lnp has cost the Australian people dearly… selling off our gold and gas, privatising everything. Under the lnp, inflation was higher, unemployment was higher. It takes a long time to undo the damage the lnp did to the economy during their 9 years in power
The real question is can we afford to let the globalist major parties continue to control the people and sell out our nation. Pauline has stated she would be unlikely to lead government and admitted it would be a task to achieve government from their current position. But more and more credible candidates come to her party as they rise in popularity and that means Australians have a new voice to speak for them in parliament because we all know the major parties stopped listening long ago.
The Liberal and Labor experiment has been going on for decades! And look where that got us! We should be one of wealthiest countries in the world! But the 2 party system has sold this country and its people down the river for years! Total mismanagement of our resources, and tax systems that keep the rich/ poor gap in high gear! Stop the smear campaign! One Nation is the only hope of trying to revive the Australian dream! And if you cant see that?
Then you have no idea what it means to be Australian!
Mark Youdale that’s fine if it is a hobby, but not running a country….just look at the history of One Nation, its been nothing but infighting, bow ups, scandals and more. Name one positive thing in 40 years that has been achieved except stoke the fires of division.
Kaley Bird good question…
Wayne Ames I am far from being a Nat.
Richard Dennison it’s not gutter journalism…. it’s my opinion…
HA Rivas I am not a Labor hack. I am member of Labor Party, just like thousands of others are members of political parties. I don’t work for the Labor Party never have, but I support there policies and thing they are doing a pretty solid job in today’s context. I think the comments lend more to the fact that I may have hit a nerve and got people thinking. It’s democracy…
I have noticed on Facebook many comments in relation to this article. I have clearly hit a nerve. Many of these comments lean into dissatisfaction with the current government. I would like to respond to that:
“Worst Parliament Ever”? Spare Us the Hysteria
Every election cycle seems to produce the same lazy refrain: this is the worst government in history, the country is being run into the ground, everything is broken.
It’s emotionally satisfying. It’s also not true.
Australia is not a basket case. We are not a failed state. We are not sliding into some irreversible national collapse because Labor is in office. What we’re actually seeing is a government trying to clean up a decade of policy neglect while dealing with global inflation, supply chain shocks, war in Europe, and an energy transition that was kicked down the road for years by the Coalition.
Cost of living pressures are real. No one denies that. But pretending they’re the product of Labor “wrecking the economy” is intellectually dishonest. Inflation surged across the world. Interest rates rose in country after country. Australia didn’t invent these pressures – it imported them along with everyone else. The difference is that Labor is at least attempting to soften the blows: energy bill relief, cheaper childcare, Medicare strengthening, fee-free TAFE, and serious investment in housing supply. None of that fixes everything overnight, but it does contradict the claim that “nothing is being done”.
The “worst parliament in history” line is pure theatre. This parliament passed industrial relations reform that lifted wages for millions stuck in insecure work. It’s rebuilding public services that were hollowed out. It’s stabilising energy policy after a decade of ideological vandalism that left the grid fragile and power prices exposed. You can argue about the pace. You can argue about priorities. But the idea that nothing constructive is happening is nonsense.
What’s really going on is that some people don’t want nuance – they want rage. Outrage is addictive. Media ecosystems reward doom-saying. Political opponents benefit from convincing voters that everything is broken, because if everything is broken, any alternative looks tempting – even the unserious ones with no plan.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: fixing structural problems takes time. Housing supply can’t be built in a press conference. Energy systems don’t transform because someone yells about coal on breakfast TV. Repairing institutions after years of neglect is slow, boring work. But it’s work that actually matters.
Criticise Labor where it falls short – that’s healthy. But stop pretending Australia is collapsing under its watch. The country is functioning. The economy is growing. Wages are moving again. The energy transition is finally real. The hard yards are being done.
Calling this the “worst parliament in history” isn’t analysis. It’s a tantrum dressed up as commentary.
It’s a fact the world is moving towards extreme right wing govts, Trump, Japan, Thailand etc.
We do not need a racist xenophobe in this country.
Once again the vast majority of comments and reactions don’t match the Media narrative 😂
Lucy Di Pietro dysfunctional and narcissistic is exactly what Australia has become with all it’s factions, each thinking they are more important than everyone else. Thanks, you’ve actually proved my example. Because you need good parents, ergo good leaders, to prevent infighting, and that’s all that labour liberal and greens do, promote, encourage and enable infighting and chaos. You need to think about what is happening in this country, and around the world a lot more.
Peter Schulze you might not…but he gets the job done
One Nation is a far right racist organisation just like MAGA, don’t make the same mistake the US made.
Robyn if you think she is smart you need a dictionary to co turn the meaning of it. She didn’t complete secondary education and has no other education or qualifications. That doesn’t necessarily mean she isn’t smart but when one listens to her speak or reads anything she’s said, she doesn’t say anything of substance. She has no skills to formulate policy or legislation, she would be a disaster at diplomacy with other world leaders, and can only engage with certain sections of the community. She has no skills at debating, that is providing reasoning for her position or a counter argument, so I’m not sure where her intelligence has been hiding, but it’s far from obvious.
This whole “country is being run into the ground” routine falls apart pretty quickly. I’ve addressed it point by point in my response in the New England Times. Refer back to comment on the article.
“Worst Parliament Ever”? Spare Us the Hysteria
Every election cycle seems to produce the same lazy refrain: this is the worst government in history, the country is being run into the ground, everything is broken.
It’s emotionally satisfying. It’s also not true.
Australia is not a basket case. We are not a failed state. We are not sliding into some irreversible national collapse because Labor is in office. What we’re actually seeing is a government trying to clean up a decade of policy neglect while dealing with global inflation, supply chain shocks, war in Europe, and an energy transition that was kicked down the road for years by the Coalition.
Cost of living pressures are real. No one denies that. But pretending they’re the product of Labor “wrecking the economy” is intellectually dishonest. Inflation surged across the world. Interest rates rose in country after country. Australia didn’t invent these pressures — it imported them along with everyone else. The difference is that Labor is at least attempting to soften the blows: energy bill relief, cheaper childcare, Medicare strengthening, fee-free TAFE, serious investment in housing supply — and reshaping the Stage 3 tax cuts so working and middle-income Australians actually get a bigger, fairer tax cut in their pay packets. None of that fixes everything overnight, but it does contradict the claim that “nothing is being done”.
The “worst parliament in history” line is a blatantly exaggerated untruth people repeat because it feels good, not because it’s true. This parliament has passed industrial relations reform that lifted wages for millions stuck in insecure work. It’s rebuilding public services that were hollowed out. It’s stabilising energy policy after a decade of ideological vandalism that left the grid fragile and power prices exposed. You can argue about the pace. You can argue about priorities. But the idea that nothing constructive is happening is nonsense.
What’s really going on is that some people don’t want nuance — they want rage. Outrage is addictive. Media ecosystems reward doom-saying. Political opponents benefit from convincing voters that everything is broken, because if everything is broken, any alternative looks tempting — even the unserious ones with no plan.
Here’s the uncomfortable truth: fixing structural problems takes time. Housing supply can’t be built in a press conference. Energy systems don’t transform because someone yells about coal on breakfast TV. Repairing institutions after years of neglect is slow, boring work. But it’s work that actually matters.
Criticise Labor where it falls short — that’s healthy. But stop pretending Australia is collapsing under its watch. The country is functioning. The economy is growing. Wages are moving again. The energy transition is finally real. The hard yards are being done.
Calling this the “worst parliament in history” isn’t analysis. It’s a tantrum dressed up as commentary.
Denny Carr ahhh. makes sense now.
Haven’t got time ATM to fully disect. Here’s some quick points….
Imagine an established, high-performing school.
We aren’t a high performing school – far from it. Highest interest rates, skyrocketing debt, treasurer who can’t balance the books (oops, $57bn black hole), looking for tax grabs left right and center (superannuation, CGT, what’s next?). And that’s just the starter on economics.
Energy costs through the roof due to renewables and what they require to work, killing businesses and driving the costs of EVERYTHING up. Home energy costs huge.
So basically your starting point for your proposition is fundamentally incorrect.
Steve Cselka Saying “there’s no difference between Labor and the Coalition” is lazy cynicism. One side lifts wages, funds Medicare, invests in schools, TAFE and housing, and acts on energy bills. The other blocks wage rises, cuts services and plays culture-war politics. You don’t have to love Labor to admit reality: outcomes for working people are not the same — and One Nation isn’t the answer, it’s just noise dressed up as solutions.
The example I gave you is of the way One Nation operates. They scapegoat Aborigines, Asians, Africans, Muslims. They blame immigrants for economic factors which they are not responsible for. You and other ON supporters are the flying monkeys, the support structure which permits this level of abuse in order to maintain control. Any method will be used lies, gaslighting, manipulation. Your twisting my words to suit your meaning is a perfect example of narcisistic behaviour. Labor does not encourage infighting or chaos, they don’t organise anti-immigration marches. They don’t pretend that there is no disparity or disadvantage in the ‘family’ they acknowledge and address it. They address economic issues head on rather than blaming scapegoats. I’ve taken the trouble of checking ON policies and the validity of any other claims made by them. They’re not fit for purpose. They will only interfere with good governance.
Seems like a typical Labor scare campaign to me. 30 years in parliament, senior members who have been deputy PM, and other previous pollies joining doesn’t seem like a no experience alternative to me !!. Just wait – the party will only get stronger from here !!. That experiment can’t be any worse than what Akbah Albo is offering and well worth a try. Sure there will be teething problems, but well worth it if Australia prospers from it !.
Anne-Marie Carroll well let’s look at what Albo has accomplished Anne with his overwhelming majority in parliament. Promised $275 dollars off our power bills by 2025 and instead its has risen by as much as 20% Is currently responsible for the largest intake of migration this country has ever seen while in the middle of a housing shortage and some of the worst traffic gridlock and travel times the country has ever seen. Albanese managed to recognise the state of Palestine and a short time after Australia was rewarded for that recognition with the worst terrorist attack in its history. As prime minister and leader of our country he responded to our worst terrorist attack on Australian soil by naming the extreme right as a threat instead of the radical islamic terrorists which committed the act and which was obvious because of the islamic state flag they placed on their cars windshield on the day of the attack. He has been the prime minister in charge of the most divisive period in our history making people so dissolutioned with the current government that he is responsible for the quickest growing political party in Australia’s history in one nation. Now all that he has achieved he has had an overwhelming majority of seats in parliament to vote through the legislation he wants. Now back to your question what exactly is Pauline supposed to achieve when she has had such few seats in parliament to vote with. She went to jail for her party funded by a Tony Abbot fund to put her in there and eventually had the charges dropped and stuck to her guns and now is the leader of the quickest growing party in Australian history.
Great article, gives people a dose of reality.
Which ON policy is the most credible for you?
Mark Burfurd I’m not sure you have thought this through thoroughly.
Ask yourself: what is her trade policy? What is her economic policy? What is her health policy? What does she understand about national security when she has never been on a security committee?
Why is she and Barnaby not running for lower house seats? It because they know they can’t win.
Ask your self why she wants to join in a coalition with the LNP? Because she knows that her party is incapable of running the country.
One last thing; if you think the LNP is going to vote themselves into political oblivion by sending preferences to ON, you might be a little delusional.
Housing and Affordability: Hanson has voted “almost always against” measures to increase housing affordability, such as federal incentives for first home buyers or rent assistance expansions.9b81d4 She also opposed federal action on public housing, arguing it favors certain groups over others.568925
Education and Childcare: She consistently voted against increasing funding for public schools and federal support for childcare, including expansions under both Coalition and Labor governments.10dd9f For instance, in 2023–2024, One Nation blocked or abstained on bills to boost early childhood education subsidies.
Workers’ Rights and Wages: One Nation has a track record of voting against labor reforms that protect pay and conditions. Examples include:
Opposing the “Same Job, Same Pay” laws in 2024, which aimed to ensure equal pay for labor hire workers (Hanson called it a “sham”).3db4be
Voting no on rights for casual workers, enterprise bargaining protections, and disallowances of regulations that weakened agreements.e70eff
In 2021, opposing the Fair Work Amendment Bill, which included supports for jobs and recovery post-COVID.4af748
Welfare and Tax Cuts: While she supported some tax cuts (including a personal $7,000 cut for high earners in 2018), Hanson voted with the Coalition on welfare reductions, like penalty rate cuts and family benefit trims.f5084046b7df Overall, she aligned with the government (mostly Coalition during her terms) on about 83–95% of divisive votes in periods like 2018, including austerity measures.709953
She won’t be running anything!
Her instructions will be sent daily,to fulfill the hidden objectives for a certain group of high level,”TAX DODGERS”!😂🫵
Cameron Dummett Its a Hypothetical comparison that is “on the money”
Please tell us of anything that was said about Pauline Hanson and One Nation that was not True.
It will be worse than an experiment, it will be a recipe for complete disaster. Hanson would destroy the good things that we have worked so hard for – Social Security, Medicare, PBS, action on Climate Change and much more. She is a risk we cannot afford.
Iain Saunders this is an opinion piece written by a member of the community. You are welcome to write your own and submit it to the site, you are not welcome to insult people for having views that are different to your own.
Tim Nicklin actually you are wrong. There was more immigration under the Libs.
Dan Moore the whole trouble is that if his private life is/was a mess/ controversial how can he be focused on what the people have voted him in for them. Even animals follow the strongest leader of the pack.
Do people actually realise she’s far right and not the brightest candle on the cake?
Steve Cselka Why are you keen on a far right government? She never votes for change
Craig Strong Barnaby Joyce!! Cory Bernardi!! Yep if you live in far right cuckoo land they are great acquisitions, meanwhile back here in the normal world we will carry on 🤪🤪🤡🤡
Andrew Maughan don’t worry too much One Nation chances of winning Govt sit somewhere between 0% and ummmm about 0%. But I do admire the commitment to the racists and bigots of ON from the vocal minority 😳🤗
Jason Patrick so you have to be a racist and a bigot now or you are “un Australian”?? Sorry must have missed the memo!! 🤡🤪
The experiment called Labor failed miserably, One Nation can’t possibly be any worse.
No experience necessary, just blow the dog whistle
Why is everyone panicking? One Nation aren’t going to govern or be the balance of power in the Senate. They will be what they always were after the next election. That annoying noise in the Senate, or the clownshow stunt holding up the work again. That’s it? They will remain a pain in the arse for real Senators and an embarrassment in parliament.