Pauline Hanson - One Nation Party

[Ghost Patrol]

 

[Vindicater]

They keep hoovering up the Nats and Libs votes though from what I can see.

In the grand scheme of things they ain't winning government and they are too far to the right for anybody to want to form government with other than the Nats, who are their main opposition for seats.

 

[ItsAllAboutMe]

Wow. If only we had held an election within the past year to see just how deep support for Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party is in the House that determines Government - The House of Representatives.

Oops, just checked and we DID have an election just 8 months ago. And Hanson won....

NO Seats out of 150!



FMD.

The ABC's prime daily news show going to a country music festival in Tamworth to gauge support for Pauline Hanson more than two years out from the next election tells you all you need to know about how far ABC News has fallen.

Is it too much to ask that our taxpayer funded public broadcaster do some some proper journalism and undertake harsh scrutiny of One Nation policies and what it would mean for Australia if they were implemented instead of this fluff that looks like Pauline herself paid for?

They could start doing the same for the Greens.

 

[Festerz]

Pauline with some graph crimes, but I'm sure One Neuron voters won't notice (or won't care) and will still lap this up. Also got unconventional party colours and can't even spell Sussan's name correctly.
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Love those pictures they've used of respective candidates. Truth in political advertising laws suggest this is the one she should have used. I wonder why she didn't?



Or maybe the shot of the last time she was in Federal Parliament actually doing the job she is being paid to do by taxpayers? (Which frankly is more forgiving)

 

[Festerz]

Barnaby's looking for a NSW Senate seat.

He's 58 now, so he'll be 60 when if he elected to a Senate Seat for a 6 year term so his kids will still be teenagers

He was originally elected to the Senate with the 2004 election, so he missed out on the previous superannuation scheme.

I'd suggest he's going to hang round like a toxic fart in a lift for another two Senate terms

Unless Gina gives him a job on the interim

Farts make a huge impact on delivery but dissipate fairly quickly (in my experience - ymmv).

Which is why it's the perfect metaphor for the current hype about Hanson, Joyce and One Nation.

 

[Forward Press]

Well there ya go.

Most of the population already known One Nation and Pauline Hanson are buffoons. Many consider them racist and far-right and all that. Same deal with Donald Trump, yet he got elected president - twice!

So why are One Nation now polling 20%+? No one of the cheerleaders here on SRP want to have a good faith discussion on it.

 

[Festerz]

They could start doing the same for the Greens.

The 2025 election was a genuine outlier in Parliamentary performance for the Greens.

And in the years prior, where they were genuine players in Parliamentary debate and had four seats in the House of Reps, they never had as much media exposure as is being given to One Nation right now - on the back of a few polls rather than electoral performance.

 

[Festerz]

So why are One Nation now polling 20%+? No one of the cheerleaders here on SRP want to have a good faith discussion on it.

I've given my view on this many times in this forum.

Hanson, like Trump, deals in the cheap politics of grievance and division. But whining about how things are gets the nod from the crowd and it's easy to paint a fake picture of how better things were in the past. What are her solutions to these problems?

There has been no proper and detailed critical assessment of the proposed policies of Hanson in the media. None.

There's nothing to 'cheerlead' about mate. Unless you want me or others to cheer on her racist rantings and support for Trump.

But hey. Why don't you start the ball rolling and list all her policies and why you think they would make Australia a better place going forward?

Then we all might be able to have a 'good faith' discussion about their credibility.

 

[Forward Press]

I've given my view on this many times in this forum.

Hanson deals in the politics of grievance and division.

There has been no critical assessment of the proposed policies of Hanson in the media. None.

There's nothing to 'cheerlead' about mate. Unless you want me or others to cheer on her racist rantings and support for Trump.

But hey. Why don't you start the ball rolling and list all her policies and why you think they would make Australia a better place going forward?

Why on earth would I vote for One Nation? I'm part of multiple demographics that would be the least likely to vote for her!

I guess though that asking posters like you to think about why One Nation has become more attractive to a large segment of voters is uncomfortable for you to address. I guess it's enjoyable to post memes of Hanson in a burqa, and it's easier to pigeonhole ON voters as racist and stupid, instead of attempting a reasoned political discussion on these polling numbers. Sorry to interrupt the circlejerk around these parts, I'll go back to lurking.

 

[Festerz]

Why on earth would I vote for One Nation? I'm part of multiple demographics that would be the least likely to vote for her!

I never suggested you voted for One Nation. Nor do I care. And I certainly don't give a toss about what 'demographics' you think you belong to.

You talked of wanting a 'good faith discussion' in SRP about One Nation and I asked you to lead off by listing their policies and your view on them. Because that would surely be an excellent place for a 'good faith' discussion about the merits of a politcal party to start.

I guess though that asking posters like you to think about why One Nation has become more attractive to a large segment of voters is uncomfortable for you to address.

I've outlined pretty succinctly in the post you responded to and in more detail in multiple previous posts across SRP why I think Pauline Hanson has suddenly become more attractive to a large segment of the population.

Heck I've provided graphs, linked polls and stories about it. The politics of populism, resentment, grievance and division.

It ain't 'uncomfortable' for me to delve into these things mate. My point is that that no one's doing it.

I guess it's enjoyable to post memes of Hanson in a burqa

Well ya see. It ain't a meme. It's reality.

Hanson has done it twice for publicity in OUR Parliament. Holding her to account for doing it and asking questions about her motives is what I would think should be a critical part of any 'good faith' discussion about Hanson and her party. Don't you.

it's easier to pigeonhole ON voters as racist and stupid

No one is doing anything of the kind. What I am doing is calling Hanson and her party racists for comments she has made about Asians, Muslims, Indians, Pakistanis, Indigenous Australians throughout her career as a politician. Feel free to argue the opposite.

instead of attempting a reasoned political discussion on these polling numbers.

So you don't think Pauline Hanson's polling numbers, especially the sharp rise after the Bondi massacre, has anything to do with her positioning on immigration and her history of racist attacks on Muslims and other migrant groups or her parroting of MAGA insular and xenophobic paranoia?

Sorry to interrupt the circlejerk around these parts

 

[GrayRanga]

I've given my view on this many times in this forum.

Hanson, like Trump, deals in the cheap politics of grievance and division. But whining about how things are gets the nod from the crowd and it's easy to paint a fake picture of how better things were in the past. What are her solutions to these problems?

There has been no proper and detailed critical assessment of the proposed policies of Hanson in the media. None.

There's nothing to 'cheerlead' about mate. Unless you want me or others to cheer on her racist rantings and support for Trump.

But hey. Why don't you start the ball rolling and list all her policies and why you think they would make Australia a better place going forward?

Then we all might be able to have a 'good faith' discussion about their credibility.

I'd love to see what the voting intentions are going to be when the Liberal Party sort themselves out and makes political decisions based on a the new political landscape with or without their Coalition partners.

Liberals having candidates in Nat seats with ONanists in a three way contest?

How does this effect the Right Wing vote

Maybe Teals and Greens might sneak in on second preferences?

I'd suggest that Labor will be gaming out the options with better information than is available to BF posters

It's only 5 weeks since Bondi, Australia is still coming to terms with a terrorist act on our land. Usually we can tut tut terrorist acts in Europe but they don't affect us

Two years is a long time to hold ON's figures.

Trump throws a wobbly and invades Canada; Europe stands up to Putin by putting feet on the ground in the Ukraine, Israel has a change of Government, the prospective Perth Bomber has links to ultra Right Wing groups and the Court case is still going?

Maybe prescient members foretelling a ONanist Government tell us how this is going to be achieved when there has to be at least a 5% swing agaist Labor in every seat for Labor to move into a minority Government or be kicked ou

 

[Vindicater]

Most of the population already known One Nation and Pauline Hanson are buffoons. Many consider them racist and far-right and all that. Same deal with Donald Trump, yet he got elected president - twice!

So why are One Nation now polling 20%+? No one of the cheerleaders here on SRP want to have a good faith discussion on it.

They are polling that high due to the collapse of the coalition.

It is also mid election cycle.

Let's see how the SA election goes. South Australia is normally one of the larger ON voting states. If One Nation suddenly grab a few seats here in both houses then I think we can take the polls more seriously

 

[Gough]

They are polling that high due to the collapse of the coalition.

It is also mid election cycle.

Let's see how the SA election goes. South Australia is normally one of the larger ON voting states. If One Nation suddenly grab a few seats here in both houses then I think we can take the polls more seriously

I doubt they've got the infrastructure in place to run candidates everywhere here and if they're jerry rigging a campaign together on the back of recent polling it will be cookers and eternal grievance campaigners. As it stands ON got one upper house seat at the last election, and she didn't last in the party.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

Well there ya go.

I was wondering who was responsible for putting Trump in power...twice.

Turns out it was we/us - the humble posters of a footy forum in Australia. Shame on we/us.

The fact is no one 'demonised them' - the MAGA far right crowd crowd was mobilised by a batch of lies made up by the Trump Oligarchy about the impact of foreigners and immigrants. Lies to appeal the very worst sentiments in humanity. Supported by media barons acting as a propaganda team - serving their own needs and that of their oliigarch supporters instead of the people.

The same way as far right populists have motivated the mob in years and decades before.

It's the same model Hanson is trying to use here. Her rants about 'Australia being over run by Asians' that got her into Parliament neatly transposing to 'Muslims' and 'their way of life' and her attacks on Indigenous Australians. Always the same tune, just the lyrics change.

What is needed now is to call this BS out for what it is. Not 'understanding' but facts and evidence. And to demand those who were elected as Liberal and/or Coalition MPs and Senators like Barnaby Joyce just a few months ago to show decency and honesty to those who elected them rather than changing parties to save their own careers.

And rather than providing a platform for the ignorance to be spread wider in soft touch media segments like this:


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We need our national broadcaster to put all of Hanson's crew together in a studio and put them to some proper journalistic scrutiny.

Because, in all seriousness, who the feck would put a number one against any one of these people if they were held to account for simple facts about their history, their hypocrisy, their idiocy and their bigotry - let alone the fundamental inconsistency and unachievability of their policies?

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Edit: BTW My post was in no way 'mocking' attendees of the Tamworth Country Music Festival. Just highlighting that our national broadcaster going there to get some sort of barometer for national support for One Nation is like sending a reporter to the Port Adelaide Canal Shopping Centre to gauge sentiment on the likelihood of Port Adelaide winning the 2026 AFL Premiership.

This sort of shallow reporting harms us all.

The sheer innumeracy of the idea that migrants are significantly worsening cost of living/pushing up house prices has been demolished by any number of credible economists.

It would be a start if a few people in government and the media started calmly and rationally trotting that fact out at every opportunity.

(Though I do understand Labor's reluctance, because the spotlight might then be shone on how effing useless their housing policy has been in actually, y'know, creating more housing like the Greens were suggesting a housing policy should probably do.)

 

[kalex6251]

Liberals having candidates in Nat seats with ONanists in a three way contest?

we can be certain of one thing .... barnyard is not a practising onanist

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

I doubt they've got the infrastructure in place to run candidates everywhere here and if they're jerry rigging a campaign together on the back of recent polling it will be cookers and eternal grievance campaigners. As it stands ON got one upper house seat at the last election, and she didn't last in the party.

Absolutely. My prediction based on every other election they've run in is that next election, ON will put up candidates in a greatly increased number of seats, they will be a total freak show, and within weeks a huge number will have had to withdraw because of blatant issues with past inappropriate actions by them, that any half-professional political mob would have screened out.

Australia's not that big a place. We don't have enough basically competent politicians already, let alone down the far right end of the graph.

 

[SBD Gonzalez]

we can be certain of one thing .... barnyard is not a practising onanist

Gold!

Though, he certainly is a tosser.

 

[GrayRanga]

we can be certain of one thing .... barnyard is not a practising onanist

Dunno; I've always thought of him as a w***er

 

[Ghost Patrol]

Dunno; I've always thought of him as a w***er

There’s two ways to read this.

 

[King Patty]

Two years is a long time to hold ON's figures.

Its a long time if Albanese does something about Housing, mass immigration, cost of living.
Even Liberals have a chance to change leadership and offer up some true opposition.

I think Albanese is more likely to ban One nation as a party than reduce immigration intake.


ON issues will be leadership, major party cant be pulling the burka stunt again.
and getting quality candidates, without social media red herrings or criminal records.
Might help if some of the nationals come across.

 

[Forward Press]

They are polling that high due to the collapse of the coalition.

It is also mid election cycle.

Let's see how the SA election goes. South Australia is normally one of the larger ON voting states. If One Nation suddenly grab a few seats here in both houses then I think we can take the polls more seriously

I doubt they've got the infrastructure in place to run candidates everywhere here and if they're jerry rigging a campaign together on the back of recent polling it will be cookers and eternal grievance campaigners. As it stands ON got one upper house seat at the last election, and she didn't last in the party.

Personal vote is overstated at times, there will be a large segment of voters that vote One Nation candidates purely because they have One Nation next to their name, even if (more likely than not) the candidate is an absolute moron. I agree that the vote is this high at the moment because the coalition is fractured again, and there is no other alternative on the right. Teal candidates only exist in some seats, this could be where the movement benefits from trying to occupy the centre-right space currently vacated by the Libs.

Someone earlier posted that during that not a single One Nation representative has ever made it a full term, it speaks volumes as to the quality of candidates they can attract especially if they attempt to field one for every Federal electorate.

 

[King Patty]

that not a single One Nation representative has ever made it a full term

Malcolm Roberts would be one that has served a full term.

 

[Forward Press]

Malcolm Roberts would be one that has served a full term.

He did not as he was disqualified under s.44

 

[faible]

No one of the cheerleaders here on SRP want to have a good faith discussion on it.

Probably because no one has actually tried to have a good faith discussion about it.

Like when one comes wading in referring to people as 'cheerleaders'. It doesn't give off 'this person is legitimately interested in having a discussion' vibes.

It also doesn't help when people repeatedly confuse poll results with actual election outcomes from < 12 months ago, and try to pretend they're somehow the same.

Saying to a pollster in the moment that you might support ON because the Coalition has imploded and there's been a fairly major terrorist incident that's stirred up the usual anti-immigrant sentiment is quite a bit different from standing in a polling booth thinking 'who do I actually want to represent me in Government'.

 

[Forward Press]

Probably because no one has actually tried to have a good faith discussion about it.

Like when one comes wading in referring to people as 'cheerleaders'. It doesn't give off 'this person is legitimately interested in having a discussion' vibes.

It also doesn't help when people repeatedly confuse poll results with actual election outcomes from < 12 months ago, and try to pretend they're somehow the same.

Saying to a pollster in the moment that you might support ON because the Coalition has imploded and there's been a fairly major terrorist incident that's stirred up the usual anti-immigrant sentiment is quite a bit different from standing in a polling booth thinking 'who do I actually want to represent me in Government'.

The regulars in this thread already have well entrenched positions on One Nation, and while they deserve the scorn and mockery for sure (One Nation, that is), I was hoping that we'd get deeper political analysis of why ON is polling at more than double last time out, rather than cheerleading and circlejerking about how racist and moronic One Nation is (which they are, for the record, in my opinion).

The analysis from Antony Green I posted a couple of weeks ago about the predicted impact of a surge in ON support on the major parties was ignored, as an example. I guess I need to be reminded this isn't the most ideal place for non-partisan discourse.

 

[Forward Press]

Here we are, if anyone wants to have a go at engagement with it:

The Coalition Split and the Re-emergence of One Nation

Despite denials, I find it hard to believe that this week’s split in the Coalition doesn’t stem from the reported surge in support for One Nation. Perhaps this week is not all about One…

antonygreen.com.au