One Nation's 'Stop Labor. Fire the Liar' campaign live: Hanson takes the fight to Albanese

• Hanson offers to help write the Coalition's ISIS return laws, Jane Hume rewrites the offer
• Albanese devotes his Labor conference speech to attacking One Nation, not the Coalition
• Hanson says rival media cut her words to fake a domestic violence scandal
• Newspoll (July 13-16): One Nation 30%, tied with Labor, Coalition crumbles to 19%
• Albanese government bankrolling 184 newsrooms through Journalism Assistance Fund

7:40am 24 July 2026 — Hanson offers to help write ISIS return laws, Jane Hume rewrites what she said

Pauline Hanson has offered to help the Coalition write the tougher ISIS laws it keeps promising, putting a letter to Angus Taylor on Thursday night that says One Nation will vote for the bills no matter whose name sits on them. She made the offer public on Friday as up to 13 Australian ISIS fighters edge closer to walking free from an Iraqi jail.

“Let’s work together to draft these bills. One Nation will back them. I don’t care whose name is on the paper. I care that this legislation is passed before more ISIS terrorists return to Australia.”

Deputy Liberal leader Jane Hume went on Sunrise and rewrote the offer, telling viewers the Coalition doesn’t need One Nation’s votes and that “Pauline should know that after 30 years in politics”. That wasn’t what Hanson offered. She did not offer votes the Coalition already counts on, she offered to help write stronger laws, and Hume answered a question nobody had asked. Labor’s Mark Butler was blunter, waving the letter away as “one of many sucker balls that are going to be bowled at Angus Taylor by Pauline Hanson”.

The part both of them skated past is the one voters keep landing on. Hanson has warned about this for 30 years. The Coalition governed for nine of them and never shut the door, and right now she’s the only leader offering to.

2:30pm 23 July 2026 — Albanese couldn't stop talking about One Nation at Labor's national conference

Anthony Albanese opened Labor's 50th national conference in Adelaide by aiming his headline speech at One Nation, a party that holds just two of the 150 seats in the House, and barely mentioning the Coalition that actually sits across from him. At the last conference three years ago he didn't name Pauline Hanson once, and this time, as One News counted, he couldn't stop.

While you can go a long way in politics, for a long time, by raging against a system that you're a part of, without a plan to fix it, or blaming people who cannot defend themselves for a problem they did not cause, that doesn't build anything.

The trouble for Albanese is that you don't hand the biggest speech of your year to a party you think is going nowhere. He's the sitting Prime Minister, and he just made a two seat crossbench party the main character of Labor's showcase, while saying next to nothing about the 5.1% fall in living standards since 2021 that's actually pushing voters to Hanson. The more he talks about One Nation, the more he tells you who he thinks the real opposition is.

8:30am 23 July 2026 — Pauline Hanson says rival media cut her words to fake a domestic violence scandal

Pauline Hanson has accused rival outlets of running a hit on her over domestic violence, telling supporters they used “only a few quotes and made out that I downplayed domestic violence”, which she said was “untrue”.

The full 4BC Mornings interview is on her side. Her first answer, when Gary Hardgrave asked what she’d say to men who bash their partners, was “It’s wrong”, and when he pressed her on men killing women she said “It’s absolutely wrong”, which had Hardgrave crediting her for saying what “a few other people” would not.

“There’s a concerted effort by some in the media to constantly take my comments out of context,” Hanson wrote, telling Australians to listen to “the whole interview”.

The same outlets that isolated her “two-way street” line went quiet when Barnaby Joyce urged blokes to “walk out before you lose your top” that same morning, and they’ve largely spared Anthony Albanese for knocking back a royal commission into violence against women in May.

8:40pm 20 July 2026 — Pauline Hanson lands in WA and campaigns with Luke Herdegen in Secret Harbour

Pauline Hanson flew into Western Australia on Monday morning and spent the afternoon campaigning in Secret Harbour with One Nation’s candidate Luke Herdegen, posting photographs of the pair outside the electorate office of the man whose resignation triggered the by-election, Paul Papalia.

Hanson said she had arrived back from the United Kingdom early that morning and “hit the ground running”, confirming the by-election will be held on 29 August.

She also took a first swing at Labor’s candidate, Georgia Tree, over where she lives.

“We’re told Labor’s replacement candidate lives 60km from the seat.”

Hanson attributed the claim to others rather than asserting it herself, and One Nation has not published anything supporting it. Tree has not responded publicly.

The photo op is the tell. Standing a first time candidate outside Papalia’s own office, under the signage of the member who just walked, frames the contest exactly as Rod Caddies wants it: the seat belongs to the community, not to the party that has held it since it was created. Labor holds Secret Harbour by 11.5%, but Papalia’s personal vote came off the ballot with him.

4:08pm 20 July 2026 — Newspoll confirms One Nation level with Labor at 30% as Coalition crumbles to 19%

The latest Newspoll published in The Australian has One Nation and Labor locked at 30% apiece on the primary vote, with the Coalition stuck at a dismal 19%. Fieldwork ran July 13–16 across a sample of 1,238 voters. One Nation’s primary rose one point while Labor shed three, and the Coalition managed only a token two point bounce off its all time floor of 17%.

Three separate pollsters, Newspoll, Roy Morgan and Bloomberg/Pyxis, now agree that One Nation is either level with or ahead of Labor on first preferences. The permanent realignment Labor spent a decade pretending wasn’t coming is here, and the Coalition is watching from third place.

4:08pm 20 July 2026 — Albanese government quietly bankrolling 184 newsrooms through Journalism Assistance Fund

The Albanese government is funnelling public money into 184 newsrooms including Nine, Seven and Crikey through the Public Interest Journalism Assistance Fund. The outlets collecting taxpayer cheques are the same ones running nightly panels about how dangerous One Nation is for democracy.

Voters can draw their own conclusions about why the press gallery gives Labor an armchair ride while treating Hanson like a threat to civilisation. When the government is paying your wages, biting the hand that feeds takes a special kind of courage that most Australian newsrooms evidently lack.

8:30am 20 July 2026 — Hanson takes the CPAC London stage alongside Farage and Truss

Pauline Hanson addressed the Conservative Political Action Conference in London on Saturday, sharing the stage with Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and former UK Prime Minister Liz Truss. Hanson told the audience that Australians should reject identity politics and defended Western cultural values, capping a two week European tour that included a podcast with Tommy Robinson and an appearance at Dolce & Gabbana’s Milan show with Gina Rinehart.

Three years ago Hanson was a Senate crossbencher negotiating amendments. Today she’s the Australian speaker at the largest conservative conference in Europe, standing beside a man who reshaped British politics. That trajectory tells you where the centre of gravity in Australian conservatism has moved.

8:25am 20 July 2026 — Media and Labor caught cutting Malcolm Roberts’ quotes to manufacture a scandal

One News has published the four sentences mainstream outlets removed from Senator Malcolm Roberts’ interview, showing that the full context directly contradicts the narrative Labor and the press gallery ran with. The excised lines made clear Roberts was quoting a constituent’s question, not endorsing the claim attributed to him.

Selective editing to build a headline is the oldest trick in political media. The difference now is that the uncut footage exists, the audience can check, and 28% of the primary vote says they’ve stopped trusting the edit.

7:05pm 18 July 2026 — Hanson’s Europe trip didn’t cost taxpayers a cent and the left can’t stand it

Pauline Hanson’s two week UK and Europe tour was entirely self funded, taking in CPAC London with Nigel Farage, a tour of Luton with Tommy Robinson, and a meeting with former PM Liz Truss. The trip drew howls from Labor and the Greens despite costing zero public dollars.

Sky News’ Pulse poll has One Nation at 30% primary and the Coalition at 17%. The Liberals have lost 46% of their 2025 election voters to Hanson’s party. Labor frontbenchers attending a billionaire’s luncheon never attracted this level of confected outrage, which tells you everything about who the establishment considers a genuine threat.

8:15am 18 July 2026 — Labor spends $7 million marketing its deposit scheme to 51,000 non citizens

The Albanese government has opened its 5% first home deposit scheme to 51,000 permanent residents and spent almost $7 million on advertising, including targeted campaigns in Mandarin and Arabic. Originally restricted to Australian citizens, the scheme was expanded to permanent residents in July 2023, and from October 2025 Labor scrapped the income limits and price caps entirely.

One Nation wants the scheme restricted to citizens. Young Australians who can barely scrape together a deposit in their own country are watching their government spend millions marketing taxpayer backed mortgages to non citizens in languages most of them can’t read.

5:30pm 17 July 2026 — Fire the Liar campaign crosses $5 million as 79,000 Australians chip in

One Nation’s Fire the Liar fundraiser has hit the $5 million mark, with 79,000 individual donors now on the books. The campaign launched as a direct challenge to Anthony Albanese’s credibility and has doubled its war chest in barely a month, rising from $4 million in mid June.

Labor’s entire 2025 federal campaign spend was $67 million drawn overwhelmingly from unions and corporate donors. One Nation is building its war chest from 79,000 wallets averaging $63 each. Grassroots money talks, and 79,000 people willing to open their wallets is 79,000 people willing to hand out how to vote cards.

5:15pm 17 July 2026 — Hanson tours Luton with Tommy Robinson and says Australia is next

Pauline Hanson has visited Luton in the UK with Tommy Robinson ahead of her headline appearance at CPAC London alongside Nigel Farage, calling the town a preview of what mass immigration without integration delivers. One News has the full report on what Robinson showed her and why she says the pattern is already visible in western Sydney.

The visit puts Hanson on a stage with Farage and Robinson in the same week Trump’s CPAC movement is consolidating populist right parties across the Anglosphere. Whatever the legacy media makes of the company she keeps, the coalition she’s joining has won elections in three countries this year.

8:30am 17 July 2026 — Hanson demands full audit of Indigenous spending as billions go unaccounted

Pauline Hanson has renewed her push for a complete audit of government spending on Indigenous programs, with One Nation’s latest media release arguing that taxpayers are owed a line by line accounting of where the money goes.

"Taxpayers deserve to know how much money is being spent and on what specific programs."

One Nation puts the potential savings at up to 2.5 billion a year, combining the NIAA’s .5 billion budget with what the party calls wasteful grant spending across dozens of programs. No other party in the Senate is willing to put a dollar figure on it.

8:15am 17 July 2026 — One Nation demands sackings over Cricket Australia plan to drop the anthem on Australia Day

One Nation has hit out at Cricket Australia after officials reportedly considered scrapping the national anthem before the Big Bash Final on Australia Day, with a media release calling it alarming that Advance Australia Fair was ever on the chopping block.

"Whichever figures within Cricket Australia thought it was appropriate to scrap playing the national anthem at the Big Bash Final on Australia Day should be sacked."

When a sporting body floats ditching the anthem on the one day Australians celebrate being Australian, the cultural priorities of corporate sport are well and truly laid bare.

5:50am 16 July 2026 — Tradies quit the CFMEU and call One Nation as inquiry exposes death threats and a union tax

The Queensland Commission of Inquiry into the CFMEU heard testimony this week from witnesses who described death threats, a suicide attempt and a union enforced policy that added 25% to 30% to construction costs across the state. Former Master Builders Queensland CEO Grant Galvin told Commissioner Stuart Wood KC that protesters hoisted a coffin into a tree outside his office, which he took as a death threat.

"You don’t actually realise the impact until it happens. I’m lucky to be here today."

Labor built this. Queensland’s Best Practice Industry Conditions policy forced contractors to cut deals with the CFMEU, hand workers 26 extra days off a year and pay above award wages, all while the party banked CFMEU donations. Now the tradies who lived under that regime are picking up the phone to One Nation.

7:35pm 14 July 2026 — Roy Morgan puts One Nation back ahead of Labor on 28% primary vote

The latest Roy Morgan weekly poll has One Nation’s primary vote surging 5.5 points to 28%, overtaking Labor on 27.5% in fieldwork conducted July 6 to 12 across 1,612 voters. The Coalition sits at 20% and the Greens at 12.5%. A full 62.5% of respondents told the pollster the country is heading in the wrong direction.

Resolve measured a three point dip over the same fieldwork window and every masthead ran it as the lead. Roy Morgan measured a five and a half point surge in the same week. The bounce ends two weeks of post Press Club wobble and puts Hanson’s party back where it sat before the speech: in first place on primary vote, with a structural lead neither major party can match.

7:20pm 14 July 2026 — Whistleblower says Labor let the CFMEU force a builder off a $320 million hospital job

Stephen King, the retired executive director of high-value projects at Victoria’s Health Building Authority, says government pressure forced him to remove a plastering subcontractor from the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital upgrade after the CFMEU demanded it, as One News reported today.

The pressure came down to me from the government, and I was told it wanted the subcontractor gone.

Two other officials corroborated King’s account. Premier Allan denied it. This is the party that campaigned on cleaning up the CFMEU, and the whistleblower evidence says it was doing the union’s bidding on a public hospital worth nine figures of taxpayer money.

7:45am 14 July 2026 — One Nation calls out Labor’s uranium hypocrisy as Albanese ships fuel to India but bans nuclear at home

Pauline Hanson’s party released a media statement calling the arrangement madness after the Albanese government finalised a uranium supply deal with India during Prime Minister Modi’s Melbourne visit last week. Australia will ship its uranium so India can generate nuclear electricity, while federal law still prohibits Australians from building a single reactor.

India plans to produce three to four times Australia’s entire electricity output from nuclear alone, splitting Australian uranium atoms to do it. One Nation has backed nuclear energy since Hanson returned to the Senate, and the India deal hands her the cleanest contrast of the campaign: Labor trusts uranium enough to sell it, just not enough to use it. Every power bill landing in July makes that contradiction harder to explain away.

7:30am 14 July 2026 — Victorian Labor cannot keep the roads from crumbling, and the Premier will not even rate them

Premier Jacinta Allan admitted to driving over a pothole on the weekend but refused to say whether it damaged her car or rate Victoria’s road network. Opposition Leader Jess Wilson pledged $5 billion over four years to repair roughly one million potholes, while Labor’s own roads minister stayed silent.

Labor has governed Victoria since December 2014 and the roads have deteriorated on its watch. Allan’s refusal to even grade the network tells voters everything about accountability under this government. If you cannot answer a one to ten question about the roads, you probably already know the number.

11:42am 13 July 2026 — Nine pays for the Resolve poll, a Liberal linked pollster runs it, and the sample stays secret

Every outlet led on the same number this weekend, One Nation down 3 points to 26% in the latest Resolve Political Monitor, with Labor steady on 28 and the Coalition lifting to 23. As independent analyst William Bowe records, the poll surveyed 2,252 people from 6 to 11 July for Nine, which both pays for the survey and writes the headlines off it.

Resolve's founder Jim Reed trained at Crosby Textor, the Liberal Party's longtime pollster, and Resolve is the one major brand that has never joined the Australian Polling Council, so it never has to name its panel supplier or publish the crosstabs that let anyone check the weighting. One number from Sunday's report never made print at all, the likeability score that would have sat next to Hanson's.

Keep it in proportion. Even in a Nine poll run by a Liberal trained shop, One Nation is still second and two points off Labor, in a race the Coalition sat out on 23. One News has been through the full record on who runs Resolve and what it will not show you.

10:15am 13 July 2026 — Barnaby Joyce backs Hanson's plain speaking as the media runs the poll slump line

One Nation's Treasury spokesman Barnaby Joyce has backed Pauline Hanson to the hilt as the weekend Resolve poll dominated Monday's coverage, putting any dip in her numbers down to a plain speaking style the major parties cannot match. He told the AAP wire that voters know exactly what they get with her.

“She doesn't try to gild the lily, she's straight down the barrel with what she says.”

Joyce also defended the hard edge of Hanson's message on radical Islam, casting it as a matter of social cohesion rather than prejudice.

“If you believe that other people's rights are diminished next to yours, that you have a license to kill them, that is part of your religion, that you want to take it to the literal extent that people who are gay can be thrown off buildings ... you don't belong here.”

The wobble Joyce is answering came from a single Nine commissioned Resolve poll, and even in that survey One Nation held second, two points behind Labor. One News keeps every state and federal poll in one tracker so the trend is never one weekend's headline.

8:30am 13 July 2026 — Seven's Spotlight beats 60 Minutes and Sky to land the Hanson exclusive

Seven's Spotlight has won the interview every network in the country was chasing, locking in Pauline Hanson for a special with senior correspondent Liam Bartlett, who spent a month filming her across Britain and Australia. The Australian's Media Diary reported that Seven scooped Nine's 60 Minutes, with Tracy Grimshaw said to have chased the same sit down for months, and that Sky News has its own Paul Murray special with Hanson still to come.

For 30 years the press gallery wrote Hanson off as a fringe act barely worth a camera. Now Seven, Nine and Sky are all bidding for her time, because she is the most bankable interview in the country and the one draw none of them can afford to leave to a rival.

Bartlett's cameras followed the moments One News has already covered, from the beer with Holly Valance at Jeremy Clarkson's Cotswolds pub to the walk through Luton with Tommy Robinson that Hanson called a warning for Australia's future.

9:15am 12 July 2026 — Malcolm Roberts joins hundreds at Brisbane rally demanding Gillard’s Sex Discrimination changes be reversed

One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts addressed the “Reclaim Our Rights. Fix the Act” rally at Queens Gardens in Brisbane this morning, joining Giggle founder Sall Grover, psychiatrist Dr Jillian Spencer and Greens co-founder Drew Hutton in calling on parliament to restore the words “man” and “woman” to the Sex Discrimination Act. The Gillard government stripped those definitions in 2013 and added gender identity as a protected attribute, a change One Nation and a growing cross-party coalition want undone.

Two bills currently before parliament would fix it: Pauline Hanson’s One Nation bill and Nationals MP Alison Penfold’s private member’s bill. Neither has passed. When a Greens co-founder, a feminist app developer and a One Nation senator share a stage demanding the same legal change, Labor’s position that the law is fine looks increasingly isolated from the voters it claims to represent.

4:08pm 11 July 2026 — Hanson walks Luton with Tommy Robinson and tells Australians this is where mass migration leads

Pauline Hanson toured the streets of Luton with Tommy Robinson this week, calling the English town a warning for Australia after its Muslim population reached 32.9% at the 2021 census, up from 24.6% a decade earlier and roughly five times the national average of 6.5%.

I definitely don’t want Australia to become like this. This is not great Britain to me, and that’s why I’m going to protect Australia.

Muhammad is now England and Wales’s most popular boys’ name for the third consecutive year. Hanson’s critics dismiss her concerns as hypothetical. Luton’s census returns say otherwise.

3:53pm 11 July 2026 — Hanson tells Liz Truss on air that Britain is worse off but Australia is not far behind

Pauline Hanson appeared on former British Prime Minister Liz Truss’s online show during her London trip, telling Truss that Britain is further gone than Australia but warning “we’re not that far behind you.” Hanson cited 1.4 to 1.7 million arrivals under the Albanese government in four years and committed to withdrawing from the UN refugee convention.

A former Prime Minister of Britain sat down with Hanson and treated her as a serious leader with answers. That is the shift the Australian press gallery still refuses to process. One Nation polls at 29 to 30% nationally, level with the governing party, and the international right is now coming to Hanson rather than the other way around.

8:30am 11 July 2026 — Hanson tells Taylor from London she is not his enemy and urges conservative unity

Pauline Hanson posted a video from London responding to Angus Taylor’s Sydney Institute speech, telling the Liberal leader “I’m not your enemy” and urging him to stop denigrating One Nation and work together to defeat Labor.

“Listen to the people, Angus, and work with me. Stop denigrating One Nation.”

Taylor used his address to call One Nation “a column of smoke” and “a one-person show.” Hanson spent the same week building alliances with Farage and Robinson in London while leading the Coalition in state after state. As One News reported on Thursday, Taylor is attacking the party that’s doing what the Liberals can’t: bringing conservative voters home from Labor. The Coalition arithmetic has changed and the Liberals are the last to notice.

8:15am 11 July 2026 — Hanson tours Britain’s migration frontline and warns Australia is heading the same way

Pauline Hanson told supporters she is on a fact-finding mission across Britain investigating how mass immigration reshaped the UK, warning “I see the same problems in Australia and I’ll be damned if I let our country go the same.”

Hanson has spent the week meeting Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe MP and Tommy Robinson, comparing notes on how legal and illegal migration transformed British communities. Australia’s intake is visa-driven, but the voter revolt underneath is identical: communities that were never asked whether they wanted transformation. Hanson is gathering the evidence while the major parties pretend the question is settled.

8:15am 10 July 2026 — Albanese ships uranium to power India’s nuclear fleet while banning it at home

The Prime Minister has signed a deal to export Australian uranium to fuel India’s nuclear expansion from 8.8 to 100 gigawatts by 2047, while Section 140A of the Environment Protection Act continues to ban every nuclear plant on Australian soil. India holds 190 nuclear weapons and has never signed the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Talk about hypocrisy! India gets cheap, reliable power while Australians endure rising energy costs.

That is Senator Malcolm Roberts summing up the contradiction Labor refuses to address. One Nation has committed to lifting the nuclear ban. Albanese has now conceded the technology works for a nation of 1.4 billion people but maintains it cannot work for 27 million Australians paying some of the highest electricity bills in the developed world.

8:00am 10 July 2026 — One Nation targets farm red tape as grocery prices squeeze Australian families

One Nation has released a policy to cut climate compliance, land use restrictions and duplicated reporting requirements that the party says are loading cost onto food before it ever reaches the supermarket shelf.

Farmers should be growing food, not fighting paperwork. Every new layer of climate regulation, reporting, land-use restriction and compliance adds cost before food ever reaches the supermarket.

The policy ties One Nation’s deregulation agenda directly to the hip pocket pain that continues to drive voters away from both major parties. Labor’s net zero compliance regime has turned paddocks into paperwork factories, and families are paying for it at the checkout.

7:45pm 9 July 2026 — Angus Taylor attacks One Nation as Hanson reminds him who the real enemy is

Angus Taylor has used a Sydney Institute speech to launch his strongest attack yet on One Nation, claiming a One Nation government would cost the economy in the order of a trillion dollars over a decade, push interest rates up 3 percentage points and add $20,000 a year to mortgages.

The Opposition Leader called One Nation "a column of smoke" promising "an eternity of pain". The trillion dollar figure quietly includes the cost of his own tax policy, and the warning comes from the man who signed off on net zero and the migration settings he now campaigns against.

Hanson answered on Facebook within hours.

"Angus Taylor has today come out attacking One Nation instead of going after the real enemy, Labor."

She signed off saying her priority "remains focused on getting this country back on track". With the Coalition on 17% to One Nation's 30 in the latest YouGov, voters have already ranked the copy against the original. Taylor keeps borrowing the policies, ending mass migration, indexing tax cuts, then attacks the party he took them from.

12:30pm 9 July 2026 — Tommy Robinson endorses Hanson as Australia's next leader after podcast sit down

Pauline Hanson has met UK activist Tommy Robinson on her London trip and recorded a podcast episode with him, and Robinson has told his followers she should be Australia's next leader.

Nine cut Karl Stefanovic loose over one conversation with the same man, and Hanson republished the axed interview on her own channel when nobody else would touch it. Now she's recorded her own, on her own platform, on her own terms.

The same outlets calling the meeting tainted spent June proving her point about who decides what Australians are allowed to hear. Australians keep hearing the word controversial and clicking play anyway.

6:50am 9 July 2026 — DemosAU has One Nation debuting on 21% in Tasmania, level with Labor

DemosAU's first Tasmanian poll to measure One Nation as its own party, fielded 21 June to 6 July from a sample of 999, has the party debuting on 21%, equal second with Labor on 21 and behind only the Liberals on 28. Full numbers are on our poll tracker.

The 21 came from everywhere at once. The Liberals shed 7 points, the independents 5 and others 4. Tasmania was the state that was supposed to hold out, and it was the last one missing from the map.

A first appearance in a state poll that lands level with Labor ends the argument that the surge is a mainland story. One Nation now polls at major party scale in every state in the country.

9:45pm 8 July 2026 — Holly Valance and Hanson share a beer at Jeremy Clarkson's Cotswolds pub

Pauline Hanson's UK trip took a detour to the Cotswolds, where she and Australian singer Holly Valance shared a beer at Jeremy Clarkson's pub, with the pair reportedly bonding over One Nation.

Valance is one of the most visible celebrity backers of the British right and hosted the fundraiser that helped relaunch Nigel Farage. The networks rebuilding conservative politics in Britain keep finding their way to Hanson's table, and she keeps being the Australian they want at it.

4:07pm 8 July 2026 — Roberts questions $532,000 taxpayer funded study linking Aboriginal songlines to outer space

One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts has challenged a $532,718 Australian Research Council grant funding a three year study into "intercultural protocols for sustainable human activity in outer space" drawing on Yolngu and Gumbaynggirr knowledge systems, as One News Australia reports. The DECRA grant was awarded to Dr Lara Daley at the University of Newcastle and runs until December 2028.

How do such projects help Australians who are living in tents, skipping meals, or struggling to pay rent?

The ARC distributes roughly $1 billion a year in competitive research grants. Roberts is making the case that a government asking families to tighten their belts has no business spending half a million dollars exploring songlines as a framework for space policy.

3:37pm 8 July 2026 — Labor rewrites its platform to formalise Welcome to Country as mortgage holders flee to Hanson

Labor has rewritten its national platform ahead of its 50th conference to commit to Welcome to Country ceremonies and a new national anti-racism strategy, One News Australia reports, even as party insiders concede that interest rate pain is "sending mortgage holders into the arms of Pauline Hanson."

The ceremonies have already drawn boos at Anzac Day services in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. Coalition frontbencher Angus Taylor has said the practice has been "overdone," while Jacinta Nampijinpa Price put it plainly: "Australians don’t need to be welcomed to their own country."

Voters are walking to One Nation over mortgages and groceries. Labor’s response is more ceremony and an anti-racism office. That is a party addressing its own anxieties rather than the country’s.

1:30pm 8 July 2026 – Hanson accuses Labor of padding skilled visa numbers with migrant dependants

One Nation has seized on new analysis showing most of Australia's skilled migrants are not skilled workers at all. As Sky News reported, of 132,148 skilled stream visas granted in the last financial year only about a third, 60,474, actually met the Department of Home Affairs skills test. The rest were secondary applicants, typically the dependants of skilled migrants.

In its own statement, One Nation accused the Albanese government of smoke and mirrors, saying Labor dresses up dependants as skilled migrants to inflate a headline number while hiding the true intake.

The point lands because the label does the political work. Every one of those arrivals still competes for the same houses and rentals already out of reach for young Australians. Hanson's answer is blunt and popular: cut the intake, close the rorts, and be honest about the figures.

12:00pm 8 July 2026 – Hanson's One Nation slams Labor's $5,000 cap on care for the most disabled veterans

One Nation has attacked a Labor budget change that from 1 July 2027 will cap funded medical care for Totally and Permanently Incapacitated veterans at $5,000 a year, replacing the open ended GP referral system that has covered their treatment until now.

One TPI veteran, Malcolm, whose treatment runs to about $26,000 a year, put it plainly.

When you sign up to defend your country, you accept the risks and you're told you'll be looked after. Then they change the goalposts and take it away from you.

A $5,000 ceiling on a $26,000 need leaves badly wounded veterans thousands of dollars out of pocket for care Labor once guaranteed. One Nation has been the loudest voice on this beat, with Hanson already grilling the Department of Veterans' Affairs after a suicidal veteran was turned away from three Brisbane hospitals. The party's message to those who served is simple: you kept your side of the deal, and a government that means it keeps its own.

7:15am 8 July 2026 — Victoria hands $4.9 million to multicultural groups while Labor trails One Nation

The Allan government has distributed $4.9 million through the Multicultural Capacity Building Program to nearly 200 multicultural and multifaith organisations representing 46 ethnicities and 15 faith groups, with Premier Allan’s office stating it was “reaffirming our commitment” to diversity at a time when it is “under attack.”

The spending sits on top of $435 million in annual federal multiculturalism funding under Albanese. Victoria carries $167.6 billion in net debt. One Nation leads Labor in Victorian primary polling at 27% to 26%. The voters Allan is trying to buy back with grants are the same voters who’ve already left her party for Hanson’s.

4:03pm 7 July 2026 — Guardian’s monoculture hit piece backfires as readers side with Hanson

The Guardian published Socceroos star Awer Mabil dismissing Pauline Hanson’s monoculture pitch as “bullshit” during the World Cup, but the paper’s own readers revolted. Comment after comment described exactly the position Hanson outlined at the National Press Club: many backgrounds under one flag, one set of values, united as Australians first.

Multicultural Affairs Minister Anne Aly argued without multiculturalism “there would be no Socceroos.” The team’s fans wrote back that the green and gold already unites on its own. Hanson drew a clean line between welcoming people from every corner of the world and bankrolling a permanent bureaucracy that sorts them into identity categories, and The Guardian’s own audience proved the distinction lands with ordinary Australians.

7:05am 7 July 2026 — Hanson and Farage share a stage at CPAC London as the populist right goes global

Pauline Hanson has appeared alongside Reform UK leader Nigel Farage at the Conservative Political Action Conference in London, posting on X that Reform UK is "shaking the foundations of a broken system" and drawing a direct line to One Nation’s surge in Australia, One News Australia reported.

The same movement is building here in Australia. Like Reform, One Nation is surging.

Farage remade British politics from outside the two party system. Hanson is attempting the same thing 16,000 kilometres away, and the polling suggests she is closer to it than Farage was at this point in Reform’s trajectory.

7:00am 7 July 2026 — Senator Bell commits One Nation to scrapping Labor’s multiculturalism ministry

One Nation Senator Sean Bell has told Sky News that a Hanson government would abolish the Office for Multicultural Affairs and the ministerial portfolio entirely, arguing that government services should be delivered in English, as One News Australia reported.

Bell framed multiculturalism as a "government doctrine" that discourages assimilation. The Lowy Institute’s latest poll confirmed a record collapse in public support for multiculturalism, which means One Nation is pushing on a door that most voters have already opened.

11:00pm 6 July 2026 — One Nation neck and neck with Labor in byelection on Andrew Hastie's doorstep

Labor's own internal polling has One Nation running neck and neck with Labor in Secret Harbour, both parties sitting in the mid 30s while the Liberal vote languishes in the high teens, Michelle Grattan reports. The byelection, triggered by Paul Papalia's resignation, sits almost entirely inside Andrew Hastie's federal seat of Canning, and One Nation will treat it as a dry run at unseating him.

Hastie recently told the Coalition party room he would "rather get taken out in a box than bend the knee to One Nation".

Premier Roger Cook has conceded One Nation is now a serious threat in WA. James Ashby has confirmed a strong candidate will stand against Hastie in Canning, and a contest on his own doorstep hands the party a live read of exactly how soft his ground has become.

7:00pm 6 July 2026 — Lee Hanson breaks her silence on one day taking over One Nation from Pauline

Lee Hanson has spoken publicly for the first time about her future as her mother's successor, telling Sky News Australia she watched the toll of relentless "attacks" on her mother growing up and praising Pauline as a "workaholic" who never stopped fighting for the people who elected her.

With Pauline flagging that her time in politics is drawing toward its end and One Nation polling at record highs, the succession question is no longer hypothetical. Lee stood as the party's lead Tasmanian Senate candidate in 2025, and Labor's obsession with her, including the Press Club ambush over her advisory role, tells you exactly how seriously they take her.

2:00pm 6 July 2026 — Barnaby Joyce backs Pauline Hanson's London mission to compare notes with Nigel Farage

Barnaby Joyce has thrown his weight behind Pauline Hanson's trip to London to meet Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, telling reporters the two insurgent leaders should be sharing their playbooks.

"Nigel Farage, according to the polling is about to become the Prime Minister of England. Pauline and One Nation are doing incredibly well, and I suppose they should be crossing notes about where do you go forward from here."

"I think that's a very sensible thing to do, making sure that they get all the information you can to do the best job they can is a good thing."

Hanson lands in Britain with One Nation on 30% at home and Reform leading the British polls on 24%, two parties doing the same thing to their respective majors from opposite ends of the earth.

2:00pm 5 July 2026 — Hanson heads to London for CPAC and a meeting with Nigel Farage

Pauline Hanson is bound for London this month to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference and meet Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, the AFR reports.

It is a long way from the days the press gallery wrote her off as a fringe act. Hanson is now being courted by the same populist movement that has Farage leading the polls in Britain, and she is carrying her monocultural Australia message onto the world stage while Labor insists it is a relic.

1:00pm 5 July 2026 — Tehan says the Coalition does not want a deal with One Nation

The Coalition's manager of opposition business, Dan Tehan, has shut the door on any alliance with One Nation, telling Sky News the party does not want to be part of a deal with Hanson's party as tensions on the conservative side deepen.

It is a bold call for a Coalition sitting third in the polls in every state. Andrew Hastie has already declared war on One Nation, and now the frontbench is publicly ruling out the one partner that could stop the bleeding on its right flank. One Nation will happily bank every Liberal who says the quiet part out loud.

12:00pm 5 July 2026 — One Nation hits back after Albanese questions Hanson's Asian diplomacy

One Nation has fired back at Anthony Albanese after the Prime Minister suggested Pauline Hanson would struggle to engage diplomatically with Asian countries, telling Sky News it is confident she can handle the region just fine.

The jab does not survive contact with Hanson's own diary. She is in London this month to address CPAC and meet Nigel Farage, the man leading Britain's polls, and she has sat in the Senate since 2016 building One Nation's platform on the trade and immigration files that run straight through Asia. One News has already set out her record on the Philippines. Coming from a Prime Minister whose own China reset has delivered Australia little, the line reads as nerves, and voters backing her past 30% are not waiting on Albanese to approve who they send to Canberra.

8:55am 5 July 2026 — Kirralie Smith takes Hanson’s biological reality fight to Parliament steps

Hundreds gathered at the Victorian Parliament on Saturday as Binary Australia’s Kirralie Smith led a “Fix the SDA” rally demanding the restoration of biological definitions of man and woman in federal law. It is the same cause Pauline Hanson championed with her Biological Reality Bill that Labor and the Greens voted down five days earlier.

The issue Hanson raised in the Senate chamber is now arriving physically at state parliament doorsteps. Brisbane is next on July 12 with High Court litigant Sall Grover headlining, and the Albanese government will eventually have to explain why it insists on leaving Gillard’s 2013 deletion of biological sex from the law unreformed.

8:15pm 4 July 2026 — Hanson targets the Labor fortress of Secret Harbour as Papalia is tipped to quit

Pauline Hanson has told The West Australian that One Nation can take Secret Harbour, the safe Perth seat Labor has held without a scare for years, with sitting MP and minister Paul Papalia now rumoured to be heading for the exit.

The paper's own street survey backed her in. Of the residents it stopped and asked about a Secret Harbour by-election, 11 said Labor and nine said One Nation. It is a small sample, not a formal poll, but a seat the majors never had to think about is suddenly a live contest. Hanson is on the front foot, walking into Labor's own heartland, which is what a party sitting near 30% nationally gets to do.

3:45pm 4 July 2026 — AFP examines GetUp’s banner rig as police interview Press Club staff

ACT Police have interviewed National Press Club staff and seized CCTV footage as the investigation into the GetUp banner stunt during Hanson’s address enters its third week. AFP Forensics officers are examining the mechanised rig left at the scene. David Sharaz, GetUp’s media and campaigns lead, declined to comment when contacted by The Australian.

Three people allegedly entered the building without authorisation, installed the device and triggered it remotely during the address. GetUp said "it was us" and then went quiet. The police have not.

3:15pm 4 July 2026 — Taylor and Canavan play down One Nation at the LNP state conference

At the LNP's state conference in Brisbane, Liberal leader Angus Taylor used his address to wave away the One Nation threat and spruik a dig and drill resources plan with a migration cap, while Nationals leader Matt Canavan spent much of his own speech on the shrinking size of a $6 packet of Tim Tams.

One Nation has just gone first in Queensland on 32% and pushed the Coalition to third in every state, so a conference that treats Hanson as a punchline and grocery shrinkflation as the headline shows the Coalition still hasn't worked out why its own voters are leaving. The base is walking to One Nation while its leaders argue about biscuits.

2:30pm 4 July 2026 — Minns tells NSW Labor it must 'climb Everest' to survive the One Nation surge

NSW Premier Chris Minns has told his own state conference that Labor faces a mountain to hold power, with protesters interrupting the event and One Nation looming over it. He did not sugar-coat the task facing his party.

“Labor must climb Everest just to stay where we are.”

To hammer the danger home, Labor's factions used an eleventh-hour deal to demote Agriculture Minister Tara Moriarty to a precarious spot on the Legislative Council ticket. When a sitting Labor premier is measuring survival in Everests and knifing his own ministers to shore up the numbers, the One Nation surge has stopped being a Queensland story and become a problem for Labor everywhere.

10:00am 4 July 2026 — Newspoll puts One Nation first in Queensland at 32% as Coalition drops to third

The latest Newspoll state breakdown, based on fieldwork from 12 April to 26 June by Pyxis Polling, shows One Nation leading Queensland at 32% of the primary vote. Labor trails at 30%, the Coalition sits on 22%, and the Greens manage 9%. Nationally, the Coalition has fallen to third place in every state surveyed.

Queensland was One Nation’s foundation, and these numbers confirm it has come home. Albanese’s satisfaction rating is negative 30 in the Sunshine State and Peter Dutton’s old stomping ground now belongs to Hanson.

9:30am 4 July 2026 — Albanese backs Hastie’s war on One Nation, the endorsement no Liberal wants

Anthony Albanese told Question Time on Thursday he would back Liberal MP Andrew Hastie over One Nation, declaring as One News reports "if it’s you or One Nation, I’m for this bloke." The PM is effectively outsourcing his opposition to Hanson to a Liberal backbencher while his own party polls neck and neck with One Nation nationally.

When a sitting Labor PM starts cheerleading for a Liberal, it tells you everything about who he actually sees as the threat. Hastie gets a pat on the head from Albanese and a primary vote in the teens from his own side.

9:00am 4 July 2026 — Hanson rules out Deeming, says she lacks the integrity One Nation requires

Pauline Hanson has shut the door on Moira Deeming joining One Nation, saying she lacks integrity and honesty. Deeming, facing de-selection from the Victorian Liberals over a complaint against Matthew Guy that police closed with no offence found, has taken the party to the Supreme Court to delay the process. Read the full One News story.

Hanson is drawing a clear line. One Nation takes Liberals who share its values, not Liberals looking for a lifeboat. The contrast with a Coalition that has tolerated internal dysfunction for years is deliberate.

7:00am 4 July 2026 — Hanson and Jones farewell Teena McQueen, the Liberal who chose One Nation in her final weeks

The Sydney Morning Herald reports that Pauline Hanson and Alan Jones were among those who farewelled Teena McQueen, the former Liberal federal vice-president who defected to One Nation in May 2026, just weeks before her death at 63.

McQueen spent years pushing the Liberal Party to the right from within, then concluded in her final months it could not be saved and joined One Nation instead. The conservatives filling the pews at her farewell are deciding which party stands for what she believed. That answer is not the Liberals.

7:05am 3 July 2026 — One Nation wins Senate cost of living motion as Labor left exposed on groceries and rent

One Nation won a Senate motion on the cost of living on the final sitting day before the winter break, with the Senate passing a motion highlighting the pressure on Australian households from rising grocery, energy and rental costs under Labor.

Senate motions are non binding, but this one matters because enough crossbenchers backed it for the motion to carry against government opposition. That is a direct rebuke from the chamber that Labor has to face every sitting day, recorded in Hansard, three years into a government that promised cheaper groceries and lower power bills and has delivered neither. One Nation now owns the cost of living argument in the upper house.

11:55am 2 July 2026 — One Nation overtakes Labor and Coalition for the first time in Victoria

Pauline Hanson's One Nation has topped the primary vote in Victoria for the first time, hitting 27% against 26% apiece for Labor and the Coalition in the latest Financial Review/RedBridge/Accent Research survey of 5,516 Victorians, with Premier Jacinta Allan's approval rating sinking to a historic low.

The Coalition still leads 54 to 46 on two party preferred, enough to end 12 years of Labor government at the state election on 29 November. But the primary vote tells the real story. Jess Wilson's Liberals polled 40% in December after she toppled Brad Battin, and have since bled a third of that vote, most of it straight to One Nation, while Labor has slumped from 33% a year ago to 26%.

Victoria was supposed to be the state where One Nation couldn't work. It now leads the primary vote in the most progressive state in the country, five months from polling day, without holding a single seat there. Voters aren't swinging from the government to the opposition, they're walking out on both majors at once, and whoever forms government in November will likely be negotiating with Hanson's party to pass anything through the upper house.

7:10am 2 July 2026 — YouGov gives One Nation a record 30% as Coalition sinks to all-time low of 17%

The latest YouGov fortnightly poll, with fieldwork from 23 to 30 June, has One Nation at 30% of the primary vote, a new record high for the party with the pollster. Labor sits one point behind at 29%. The Coalition has fallen to 17%, its lowest reading in any published YouGov federal survey and 13 points behind One Nation.

Three major pollsters have now recorded One Nation ahead of the Coalition by double digits within a single fortnight. At 17%, the Liberal Party is polling below the Greens. The Australian right has structurally realigned around Hanson, and every week Angus Taylor spends attacking her instead of Albanese accelerates it.

4:05pm 1 July 2026 — One Nation’s Argentine-born SA president brushes off poll noise

Carlos Quaremba, One Nation’s South Australian president and a Legislative Council member who arrived from Argentina as an infant, dismissed the latest poll dip as irrelevant, arguing the party’s support is built on issues that outlast any survey cycle.

We’re still a long way away from the federal election, and it’s a fool’s game reading too much into polls. Polls will come and go, but One Nation’s support is built on real issues that matter to Australians.

Quaremba is himself a practical answer to the lazy framing of One Nation as ethnically exclusive: born in South America, raised in Adelaide, elected to the SA upper house in March. The media treats a two point dip as a death knell while One Nation still holds a primary vote the Liberals would trade their frontbench for.

2:00pm 30 June 2026 — Fact check: Hanson is not scrapping paid parental leave, and here is what she actually said

Labor and the media ran hard with the claim that Pauline Hanson wants to scrap government-funded paid parental leave. One News Australia fact-checked it and the reality is more nuanced: Hanson questioned the structure of the scheme and who should fund it, but did not call for it to be abolished.

The gap between what Hanson said and what the headlines claimed is worth reading. The misrepresentation is doing a lot of political work for Labor.

5:35pm 30 June 2026 — Labor and Greens vote down Hanson’s Biological Reality Bill protecting women’s spaces

Pauline Hanson’s Acknowledging Biological Reality Bill, which sought to enshrine protections for female-only spaces in federal law, was voted down by Labor and the Greens at the earliest procedural stage in the Senate. It is extremely rare for a bill to be killed before it even reaches debate.

Killing a bill before debate is a procedural rarity reserved for the genuinely indefensible. Labor and the Greens used it here because the alternative was explaining, on the record, why they oppose legal protections for women’s spaces. Hanson forced the question. They ran from the answer.

5:30pm 30 June 2026 — Roberts grills Labor as government admits ISIS bride deradicalisation is voluntary

Senator Malcolm Roberts pressed the government in the Senate on the return of ISIS brides to Australia, with key questions about security oversight left unanswered as the government confirmed its deradicalisation programs are entirely voluntary.

Roberts put the questions millions of Australians want answered. The government confirmed participation in deradicalisation is optional, then spent its remaining time blaming the Coalition for fighters who returned on their watch. One Nation is the only party in the chamber treating this as the national security problem it plainly is.

10:39am 29 June 2026 — Paul Hogan brands Hanson ‘living in the past’ from his Hollywood home of 20 years

Paul Hogan, the 86-year-old Crocodile Dundee star, has told the Australian Financial Review that Pauline Hanson is “living in the past”, speaking from Los Angeles where he has lived for about two decades, after Hanson named him as an example of the Australian monoculture she wants to defend.

The lecture sits awkwardly. Hogan spent years fighting the Australian Taxation Office over a reported 50 million tax bill, settled in 2017 with no admission of liability, and has been based in California, not Australia, since the mid-2000s.

It takes some front for a Hollywood multimillionaire who fought the Tax Office and settled in California to lecture Australians on who belongs to the national character. Hanson named Hogan as part of the Australia she is fighting for. Hogan answered from Los Angeles. The contrast makes her point for her.

4:10pm 29 June 2026 — One Nation accuses Labor of a $4.5 billion budget hit on small business

One Nation released a media statement today attacking the Albanese government’s budget changes to trust distributions and capital gains tax as a direct assault on Australia’s small business sector. The Council of Small Business Organisations Australia called the changes “a mixed bag” that could leave owners paying a higher effective rate than the current 25% company tax rate, while SmartCompany labelled the package a “$4.5 billion tax grab from small business”.

Albanese and Chalmers gave small business a $20,000 instant asset write-off with one hand and clawed back multiples of it through trust and CGT changes with the other. COSBOA’s own verdict is that the budget extracts more than it returns. One Nation is staking ground where the Coalition used to live, and right now nobody else is contesting it.

7:30am 29 June 2026 — Coalition hits all-time Newspoll low as Hanson outpaces Taylor two to one on preferred PM

Two polls published Saturday put the Coalition at its lowest primary vote on record. Newspoll (fieldwork June 23 to 26, sample 1,235) has the Coalition at 17%, One Nation at 29% and Labor at 33%. Redbridge (fieldwork June 23 to 27, sample 1,006) returns almost identical numbers: Coalition 18%, One Nation 29%, Labor 30%. On preferred PM, Hanson leads Angus Taylor 31% to 20% in Newspoll and 23% to 11% in Redbridge.

The Coalition has polled below 20% in every major survey for a month. Hanson outscores Taylor on preferred PM by double digits in both polls. The electorate has chosen its opposition leader.

7:15am 28 June 2026 — Grassroots “Fire the Liar” banners appear on Brisbane highway overpasses

One Nation’s “Fire the Liar” slogan has jumped from party billboards to citizen bedsheets, with Noticer News reporting banners draped over Brisbane highway overpasses on Friday night, Australian flags flying alongside. Motorists honked in support as they passed, the outlet reported.

The campaign began as an online fundraiser that has pulled in more than $4,892,689 million, then grew into helicopter banners and State of Origin TV ads. Now ordinary Australians are climbing overpasses on a Friday night to make their own signs. That is a movement, the kind of grassroots energy Donald Trump rode into the White House. Anthony Albanese should be very concerned.

7:10am 28 June 2026 — SMH publishes letter branding One Nation voters a “cavalcade of cacophonous cretins”

The Sydney Morning Herald published a reader’s letter asking why “Hanson and her cavalcade of cacophonous cretins are given so much oxygen,” Sky News Australia reported, prompting One Nation to compare the moment to Hillary Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables.” A party spokesperson said the letter revealed “sneering contempt” for the intelligence of Australian voters.

Hillary Clinton called Trump supporters “deplorables” and lost the election. The Nine owned masthead is now publishing letters calling 30% of the Australian electorate “cretins.” Someone at the Herald might want to check how that strategy worked out in 2016.

6:55am 28 June 2026 — One Nation’s lead grows as a new DemosAU poll sinks the Coalition primary vote to 18%

A new DemosAU poll shows One Nation’s lead widening as the Coalition primary vote sinks to 18%, with Pauline Hanson now second only to Anthony Albanese on preferred prime minister, ahead of Liberal leader Angus Taylor.

The trend is now a rout. One Nation is not protesting from the fringe, it is the leading party of the Australian right while the Liberals bleed into the teens. Hanson said the major parties had walked away from ordinary Australians on immigration, cost of living and crime, and voters are answering at the only poll that counts, the one in their own heads. The Coalition can keep quoting Sun Tzu. One Nation is quoting the numbers.

6:50am 28 June 2026 — One Nation accuses Labor of keeping the defeated Voice to Parliament ‘still on the agenda’

One Nation has accused the Albanese government of keeping the Voice to Parliament on its agenda despite the referendum being rejected by Australians in 2023, calling it a divisive idea that voters have already buried.

Labor swore the Voice was dead after Australians said no. One Nation says it never left the back room. If Anthony Albanese is quietly keeping a rejected referendum alive while telling voters it is gone, that is exactly the kind of broken word the Fire the Liar campaign was built to call out. Australians voted once, and they should not have to vote down the same idea twice.

8:45am 27 June 2026 — Lowy poll confirms record collapse in support for multiculturalism

The 2026 Lowy Institute Poll has confirmed the largest negative shift on any societal question in the survey’s two decade history, with support for cultural diversity falling 17 points from 90% in 2024 to just 73%. Negative views of diversity more than doubled from 9% to 20%, while 55% of respondents said immigration levels are too high, up from 48%.

The poll was fielded in March, weeks before Hanson took the Press Club stage and called for a monocultural Australia. The commentariat called it extreme. The Lowy Institute, hardly a populist outfit, says the public had already moved. Hanson didn’t create the shift. She read the room.

6:55pm 26 June 2026 — Hastie quotes Sun Tzu and ‘declares war’ on One Nation as the polls bury the Liberals

Liberal deputy leader Andrew Hastie has vowed to fight One Nation in a combative newsletter, quoting Sun Tzu’s Art of War and rejecting preference deals, even as fresh modelling has One Nation surging clear of the Coalition.

“One Nation has declared war on me, so they shall have war,” Hastie wrote, telling the party it should “heed Sun Tzu’s wisdom to never press a determined foe.”

It is a brave general who quotes The Art of War while his own troops are running for the hills. The numbers tell the real story. One Nation’s primary vote is up 24 points since the 2025 election and now leads the nation, the Coalition is modelled to lose almost 40 seats, and Pauline Hanson’s movement is projected past 60. Hastie can keep reading Sun Tzu. The voters have already picked their side, and it is wearing orange.

4:40pm 26 June 2026 — Malcolm Roberts says free land for foreigners is not One Nation policy

One Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts said in a video posted this week that giving land to “any foreign entities, be it Israel or Elon Musk or anybody” is not One Nation policy and never will be, because only Australians should own land and farms in the country.

He said Pauline Hanson told Rinehart directly she disagreed with her, but that Rinehart was entitled to have her position reported properly, and that One Nation believes she wasn’t.

One Nation rejects the policy and still defends what Rinehart actually said. It opposes any free land for foreigners, and it argues her real proposal was distorted in the telling.

4:30pm 26 June 2026 — Hanson-Young accuses One Nation of foreign interference, offers no evidence

Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young used Senate debate on the My Face, My Rights deepfake bill to accuse One Nation of being "up to their neck" in foreign interference, in a heated exchange on the floor of the chamber, demanding to know who funds a string of deepfake accounts without naming one or offering any proof.

"I put it to you, Deputy President, that One Nation is up to their neck with foreign interference and political meddling in this country. I would ask Senator Pauline Hanson and her One Nation Party just how involved they are in a number of these deepfake accounts. Are they involved? Who's paying for them, and what is their connection?"

Pauline Hanson hit back on the spot and demanded the slur be struck from the record.

"I think that language is offensive. It is untrue, and I want it withdrawn."

The claim falls apart on the facts. AAP FactCheck and RMIT's Information Integrity Hub had already traced the wave of political deepfakes to foreign content farms chasing ad revenue, with no link to One Nation established.

Hanson-Young made the accusation under parliamentary privilege, where she cannot be sued for it. She offered no documents, no names and no money trail, just an insinuation aimed at the party now leading the primary vote, on the day the Senate was meant to be debating how to stop exactly this kind of disinformation.

6:10pm 25 June 2026 — Taylor refuses to endorse multiculturalism seven times as Hanson rewrites the debate

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor was asked seven times by reporters in Parliament House whether he supported multiculturalism and would not say yes, telling the press gallery “I don’t quite know what you mean by that question” and pivoting to “Australian values” instead.

A week after Hanson told the National Press Club that Australia must be “monocultural,” the leader of the opposition cannot bring himself to say the word. Whatever the Liberals think they gain by dancing around it, the political weather in this country is being set by Pauline Hanson.

8:30am 24 June 2026 — Hanson revives Karl Stefanovic's axed Tommy Robinson interview, accuses Nine of "trying to sack" him

Pauline Hanson has thrown her weight behind Nine's Today host Karl Stefanovic after his 55-minute podcast interview with British activist Tommy Robinson vanished from Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and social media less than a day after it went up, as The Nightly reported. Hanson reposted the full episode to her own YouTube channel, under the title "CANCELLED: The Full Karl Stefanovic and Tommy Robinson Interview", and wrote: "It looks like they're trying to sack my good friend Karl Stefanovic for this video with Tommy Robinson."

Nine said the program is "a completely independent production" in which it has "no involvement, including in the guest selection," but added it was "taking this matter seriously." For Hanson it's another front in her war with the legacy media, after banning the ABC and Guardian from her press conferences and opening her National Press Club address by taking aim at Nine's coverage of her and Gina Rinehart.

9:00am 24 June 2026 — "Fire the Liar" counter rolls past $4.8 million

One Nation's "Fire the Liar" war chest has ticked past $4.8 million, the party says, as it reframes the campaign around a blunt new message: "Australians want Albo gone." The total keeps climbing weeks after launch, well beyond the audited $3 million-plus milestone Labor tried to cast doubt on.

8:30am 24 June 2026 — Rebel News says left and right both fell for the Rinehart distortion

Rebel News bureau chief Avi Yemini argued the outrage was selective, with the left and much of the right hammering Rinehart over the Israel line while ignoring everything she said about Taiwan’s chip industry, SpaceX and foreign investment.

“Let’s stop pretending she was proposing some cynical plan for Israeli settlers to colonise Australian land. She was talking about attracting expertise from countries that lead the world in their respective fields to help us build ours.”

Nobody objected to the chips or the satellites. The fury landed only on the word Israel, and that is the tell.

8:30am 23 June 2026 — Hanson reveals she hasn't spoken to Angus Taylor "for years" as she eyes preference talks

Pauline Hanson has underlined how far One Nation now sits outside the old major-party orbit, revealing she hasn't dealt with Opposition Leader Angus Taylor in years. "I haven't spoken to Angus for years," she told The Nightly, adding she hadn't seen him "since about 2019, 2020." Even so, she left the door open to dealing on her own terms: "In time, I'm sure we'll get to talk and strategise about preferences," with her stated priority removing what she called a "toxic Labor, Greens, Teals government."

11:30am 22 June 2026 — One Nation hits 31.5% as Roy Morgan poll puts the election "too close to call"

One Nation's primary vote has jumped 2 points to 31.5% in the latest Roy Morgan poll, putting Pauline Hanson's party in front of Labor (27%) and the Coalition (17.5%). Taken in the week of Hanson's National Press Club address, the survey has the race at 51 to 49 in Labor's favour on two-party-preferred, a margin Morgan calls "too close to call." It's the clearest sign yet that the campaign and Hanson's Canberra pitch are converting into votes, not just donations.

2:15pm 21 June 2026 — Colleen Harkin quits the Liberals as Abbott works the phones to stop a One Nation exodus

Senior Victorian Liberal and Institute of Public Affairs research fellow Colleen Harkin has resigned from the party a week after attending a One Nation fundraiser, first reported by The Noticer, as federal president Tony Abbott personally rings members to talk them out of crossing to Pauline Hanson's party.

The bleed is structural, not a one off. About half the Curl Curl branch on Sydney's Northern Beaches has gone to One Nation and tried to dissolve itself, the Bay and Basin branch has lost members too, and in Gilmore one former member told the Sunday Telegraph, carried through AAP, that One Nation now has 500 members in the region to the Liberals' 220.

"I cannot continue to support an organisation that has lost sight of its principles, its purpose and its responsibilities to its own members. I have not changed. The Party has."

Abbott is reduced to cold calling his own members and fast tracking discounted memberships to keep them in the fold. The people he's ringing aren't the problem, they're the proof of one, and the Victorian election in November is the first real count of how many follow Harkin out the door.

9:00am 21 June 2026 — Albanese rejects claim Hanson lost her AFP protection after 2022, says it's the police's call

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has rejected claims that Australian Federal Police protection was withdrawn from Pauline Hanson after the 2022 election, saying security arrangements are determined independently by the AFP and not by the government of the day.

Hanson has formally asked the government for a higher level of protection after reporting multiple threats of physical and sexual violence. Inside the AFP, a veteran of the Close Personal Protection team has told The Nightly she should be rated "high" and given a permanent detail, rather than the events based assessment she's said to get now.

For now the request sits in limbo. The government says the decision belongs to the AFP, the AFP won't discuss individual protection arrangements, and no upgrade has been announced.

7:30am 21 June 2026 — Lee Hanson says the death threats now reach her kids too: "for Mum, me and my kids"

Pauline Hanson's daughter Lee Hanson has gone public over the threats facing the family, telling the Sunday Telegraph that death threats are now flooding in "for Mum, me and my kids". Lee Hanson, who is 42 and a mother of two, said the severity and number of threats against her mother had ramped up as One Nation's support surged, and that she and her own children are now receiving them too.

She used a Sky News interview, aired under the banner "Family raises alarm over safety of One Nation leader", to call on the Albanese government to take the threats seriously, saying the level of security around her mother isn't enough.

It's a sharp escalation of a story that's been building all week. Hanson's office warned a Cabinet Minister in early May that "something terrible could soon occur", and a man carrying several knives was reportedly detained outside her Albury hotel on the eve of the Farrer poll. The threats now span three generations of the one family, and the security warnings One Nation says the AFP has left unanswered are still sitting with the government.

7:00pm 20 June 2026 — Far left activists target Hanson and Rinehart at Charlie Teo Foundation Rebel Ball

Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart were met by a far left protest chanting "Pauline Hanson go to hell, take Rinehart there as well" as they walked into the Charlie Teo Foundation's annual Rebel Ball at The Star in Pyrmont on Saturday evening. 7News broadcast live from Pyrmont earlier in the evening as security stepped up, with the network's chyron flagging that Hanson and Rinehart were "expected to attend".

Live footage showed protesters carrying placards openly branded NSW Socialists, alongside "Blame Billionaires Not Migrants" signs and red flags. The rally had been called by the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism and the Refugee Action Collective under the "No room for racism" banner, with Hanson, One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce and Rinehart named as targets.

It's the third stop in a fortnight, after Moonee Ponds on 12 June and the National Press Club on 17 June. The first two were One Nation functions. This one was a brain cancer fundraiser, hosted by Ray Hadley OAM with Marcia Hines AM performing, that Rinehart's backed since the Foundation's 2018 launch. NSW Socialists wasn't a label hung on the crowd by centre right media. It was printed on their own placards, on the mainstream news feed, before the guests had even arrived.

1:00pm 20 June 2026 — Fire the Liar counter passes $4.75 million from nearly 76,000 Australians

The Fire the Liar counter reads $4,751,573 on Saturday afternoon from 75,982 donors, with the goal lifted again to $4.9 million. That's nearly five times the original $1 million target the party launched at on 10 June, average donation still around $63.

Ten days to the 30 June tax deductibility deadline. Labor's rival drive still hasn't published a counter, a tally, or a donor count.

12:30pm 20 June 2026 — Bloomberg takes Hanson's "monocultural Australia" speech global

US financial network Bloomberg has published Pauline Hanson's National Press Club address for an international audience, headlined "One Nation's Pauline Hanson Calls for 'Monocultural' Australia."

Bloomberg's audience is Wall Street, the City of London and Hong Kong. The international reach the major parties keep telling themselves One Nation doesn't have.

9:00am 20 June 2026 — News Corp commentariat crowns Hanson the new opposition leader

The News Corp wraps of Hanson's NPC address landed across Friday and the weekend papers read like a coronation. The Herald Sun's Andrew Bolt called the speech "a joy to watch." News.com.au's Jai Bednall called her "a politician ready to rule" who "looks and sounds sharp." The Australian's Jenna Clarke crowned her "Thatcher from Queensland."

"Critics and commentators were expecting a lecture from a Karen, instead she put on a show akin to late British PM Margaret Thatcher, if Marg ever spent any time in a Townsville pub."

The Coalition's problem isn't just that voters have moved on. The press that used to do their fighting for them has too.

8:30am 20 June 2026 — Greg Jericho loses Press Gallery pass an hour after criticising soft NPC questions to Hanson

Australia Institute chief economist and Guardian columnist Greg Jericho has lost his Press Gallery pass after publicly criticising fellow gallery members for the calibre of their questions to Pauline Hanson, Amanda Meade reports for Guardian Australia.

Jericho, a 2016 Walkley winner and gallery member since 2015, posted to Bluesky at 1:56pm Wednesday calling out questions from the Age and SMH's James Massola and the Canberra Times' Dana Daniel.

"This gallery has had a decade of watching Trump and 30 yrs of Hanson and they walked in the press club like it was first day on the job."

At 3:03pm, gallery committee president Jane Norman, the ABC's national affairs correspondent, emailed Jericho to say his pass no longer fit the criteria. The journalist who said the questions weren't hard enough was told his pass no longer qualified within 67 minutes.

Hanson stood at that same lectern and said she'd been silenced for years. Within the hour, the gallery told the one journalist who said they'd gone too easy on her that his pass no longer qualified. You don't have to back Hanson to notice the gallery just made her point for her.

7:35am 20 June 2026 — The Nightly editorial declares "Pauline Hanson is no bullshit"

The Nightly's Saturday editorial, signed by editor in chief Christopher Dore, argues Pauline Hanson's rise is the direct product of major party arrogance and failure, and tells readers to listen to what she's saying instead of attacking her as a candidate.

It frames her as "a mirror to a significant part of the population, a funnel for aspects of middle Australia," and closes on the line already travelling on its own.

"Australians may not agree with everything Senator Hanson says. But the rest are copping it because they feed us bullshit. Pauline Hanson is no bullshit."

That's Seven West Media's flagship national title, on a Saturday morning, telling readers Hanson is the one telling the truth.

11:20am 19 June 2026 — What Rinehart actually offered: free use of Crown land that stays in public hands

In her Townsville Bush Summit speech, Rinehart offered foreign companies the free use of Crown land to build on, the same way miners and farmers already operate here. The land itself stays in public hands. The plan named three industries: Taiwan’s chip makers, with a tax holiday, port and airport, Elon Musk’s SpaceX on sparsely populated Crown islands, and Israeli defence manufacturers to build drones and air defence.

The same speech urged the government to turn “empty federal offices” into accommodation for homeless veterans, and praised Hanson’s call to exit the Paris Accord. Rinehart has committed 00 million of her own to housing homeless veterans, with the first property already full.

“Free land” became “giving the country away”, and the gap between those two is the whole story.

6:30pm 18 June 2026 — Ashby warned Cabinet Minister in May "something terrible could soon occur" to Hanson

One Nation chief of staff James Ashby warned a Cabinet Minister of the Albanese government in early May that "something terrible could soon occur" to Pauline Hanson and "it only takes one crazy person" to physically harm her, The Nightly's Andrew Greene reports.

On the eve of the Farrer by-election, a man armed with several knives was detained outside Hanson's hotel in Albury. The party's requests for upgraded AFP protection since then have been ignored. Inside the AFP, a Close Personal Protection team veteran told The Nightly Hanson should be rated "high" and given a permanent detail.

"It is extraordinary how often she is approached out in public, and with groups like GetUp now funding activists, I cannot see why she is not rated 'high'. Several Cabinet ministers have had CPP teams for years."

Ashby has also written to commercial aircraft tracking companies asking them to scrub Hanson's plane movements after GetUp built a website following her private aircraft. Reports of violent threats against federal politicians almost doubled from 555 in 2021-22 to 951 in 2024-25, nearly three a day. A Cabinet Minister got the warning in May and didn't act.

6:00pm 18 June 2026 — Kyle Sandilands confirms he's been working on One Nation's messaging with Hanson

Kyle Sandilands has confirmed he's been working with Pauline Hanson on One Nation's messaging, in a tell all interview with Game Changers Radio's Craig Bruce and Irene Hulme, first reported by news.com.au ahead of the podcast's 6am Friday release.

The sacked KIIS FM host called Hanson "really a surprise" and "one of my favourite people now," and also praised former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, who defected to One Nation in December 2025.

"I've been working on getting their messaging across, which I think has been well received. Not my gangster friends, but just more of the upper society types who have also expressed a great interest in her messaging."

The disclosure lands the same week Sandilands settled his Federal Court action against ARN Media for $12.09 million, freeing him to work on new projects publicly. With Joyce sitting in the lower house and One Nation's primary vote running between 14% and 18% in recent national polling, the party has gone from being framed as a fringe protest vote to being publicly attached to one of the country's biggest media operators. The "secret weapon" framing writes itself.

3:30pm 18 June 2026 — Hanson walks back One Nation's 5% defence pledge to 3.5% at Townsville forum

Senator Pauline Hanson has walked back One Nation's call to push defence spending to 5% of GDP, telling a forum in Townsville on Thursday that a lift to 3.5% over time was now the party's position, according to AAP.

The 5% figure matched what NATO members committed to at The Hague Summit and what Washington has been asking Australia to deliver. Strategic Analysis Australia's Marcus Hellyer last week put the cost of a 5% buildup at roughly $400 billion over four years, which fed the conscription headlines One Nation has spent the past fortnight knocking down.

"We need to increase over a period of time. It really concerns me now."

The federal government's own commitment is to lift spending to 3% of GDP by 2033, with that figure including military pensions and veteran support. Hanson's revised 3.5% is half a point above where Labor expects to be in eight years, and well short of the NATO line her original position cited. The retreat is real, but the gap between One Nation and the Albanese government on defence is still measured in tens of billions.

2:30pm 18 June 2026 — Press Gallery committee condemns Hanson's threats to ban reporters

The Federal Parliament Press Gallery committee, which represents political journalists based in Canberra, said in a statement carried by The Nightly on Thursday that it strongly objects to threats made by One Nation to ban certain journalists and organisations from doing their jobs.

The statement responds to Senator Hanson's National Press Club address on Wednesday, where she called Guardian reporter Sarah Martin "trashy" and said Martin would be banned from future events.

"The ability to scrutinise and question politicians is one of the fundamental functions of our work as journalists."

The Press Gallery committee statement makes no reference to GetUp's banner stunt that interrupted the same Press Club event.

2:15pm 18 June 2026 — Rinehart pitches free use of Crown land for SpaceX, Taiwan chips and Israeli defence

At the News Corp Townsville Bush Summit, Gina Rinehart pitched offering land at no cost to bring three world leading industries to North Queensland, framing it as Australian jobs, trained local graduates and sovereign capability the country can’t currently build for itself.

Within days the pitch was recast online as a plan to hand Australian land to Israel, and the correction has been chasing it ever since.

2:00pm 18 June 2026 — ACT Policing confirms AFP Forensics examining Barton incident

ACT Policing has confirmed to The Nightly that an investigation is underway into the GetUp banner stunt at the National Press Club on Wednesday, with AFP Forensics now examining the scene.

"ACT Policing has received a complaint regarding the alleged unauthorised access and interference with equipment in a building in Barton. Investigations into this matter are underway including examination by AFP Forensics officers."

Police have urged anyone with information to contact Crimestoppers.

13:50pm 18 June 2026 — NPC bans all GetUp staff from future events

The National Press Club board has formally banned all GetUp staff from attending future events, The Nightly reports following Thursday morning's board meeting.

The ban covers every GetUp employee, not just director of campaigns and media David Sharaz, whose own membership application the board rejected in the same resolution.

13:50pm 18 June 2026 — NPC formally rejects David Sharaz's membership application

The National Press Club board has formally rejected David Sharaz's NPC membership application after a lengthy Thursday morning meeting, Andrew Greene reports for The Nightly.

Sharaz, GetUp's director of campaigns and media, had applied for NPC membership recently and separately purchased a ticket to Wednesday's Hanson address.

13:20pm 18 June 2026 — GetUp continues to refuse media questions about Sharaz

GetUp has not responded to questions from The Nightly about the Press Club incident or its director of campaigns and media's role in it.

1:15pm 18 June 2026 — ABC airs disjointed cut of Hanson Press Club speech, drops her line on hungry children

The ABC's broadcast of Pauline Hanson's National Press Club address cut a passage from her speech on child poverty, leaving the aired version jumbled mid sentence, a side by side comparison posted by media commentator Robert McKnight shows. McKnight lined the ABC feed up against the Sky News broadcast of the same speech and found roughly 38 seconds missing from the ABC version.

In the full remarks, Hanson moved from a statistic on children going to school hungry into an attack on the Albanese government's immigration intake. The ABC's edit removed the middle of that passage, so the aired grab jumps from "I think this is very important, what I've just said" straight to a fragment of numbers, with the argument connecting them gone. Below is Pauline's full, unedited quote:

''35% of parents said their children had gone to school hungry. How can we hold our heads up? How can we, as members of Parliament who were supposed to represent the people of this nation, allow that to happen? It is disgraceful. And yet this Albanese Labor government cannot help our own people here, but keeps bringing in more into the country, and floods this country time and time and time again.''

The ABC broadcaster aired a version of that passage chopped down to a disconnected fragment:

"I think this is very important, what I've just said, and I want you, the people here, and the people watching this. 35%... 59% said they're children."

A taxpayer funded broadcaster editing a sitting senator's words into incoherence, then airing the result as her address, is the kind of thing that turns a debate about ABC funding from abstract into specific.

11:30am 18 June 2026 — Rinehart gifts Hanson an orange bulldozer at the Townsville Bush Summit

Gina Rinehart used her Townsville Bulletin Bush Summit keynote on Thursday to hand Senator Pauline Hanson an orange model bulldozer, reported by Sky News, styled directly on the chainsaw Argentina's Javier Milei gave Elon Musk at CPAC last year.

Rinehart presented the toy on stage in front of an audience of One Nation supporters and Hancock executives. The colour choice was deliberate. The full speech, republished by The Australian via Hancock Agriculture, opens with Rinehart telling Hanson she gives "Aussies across our country hope," then moves to the line that landed the moment on every evening bulletin.

"You might remember Elon Musk was given a big chainsaw to try and cut government tape and bureaucracy over in America. We need an orange bulldozer."

Hancock Prospecting was among the biggest corporate donors to the Liberal Party as recently as the 2024 financial year, tripling its contribution to roughly $500,000. Rinehart sharing a stage with Hanson and dressing her in One Nation orange is not a quiet signal. It's a public one about where the donor class is now looking.

6:03pm 17 June 2026 — Press Club names David Sharaz, refers banner stunt to AFP

The National Press Club has issued a statement on the GetUp banner stunt that disrupted Pauline Hanson's address. The statement was first reported by Sky News Australia on the Sharri program tonight, hosted by Caroline Marcus, who read it to air.

"It appears that two persons entered the club building yesterday afternoon without permission and installed a separate drop-down screen in front of our media wall/ light box. David Sharaz was seen filming the incident on his phone and, after the banner had lowered, left abruptly. We understand that this is likely to form part of the AFP investigation.''

Sharaz is GetUp's Media and Campaigns Lead. He bought a ticket to the event.

The press club has referred the footage and evidence to the AFP, formally apologised to Senator Hanson, and is considering legal action including damages.

GetUp's media statement on the stunt earlier today read, in full: "It was us.''

4:03pm 17 June 2026 — Labor is now fundraising off Pauline Hanson by name

The Australian Labor Party sent out a fundraising SMS this afternoon under the URL alp.org.au/stop-one-nation, asking supporters to chip in $10,000 in a single day to fund Labor's campaign against Pauline Hanson and One Nation. The 4pm message went out within hours of the National Press Club banner stunt.

The text, attributed to "AusLabor", warned supporters that "One Nation and the Coalition are already raising money and building their campaign for the next election" and asked donors to "Picture Angus Taylor and Pauline Hanson governing together."

An earlier message in the same chain acknowledged the obvious quietly:

"Big money is lining up behind her."

Labor's own published assessment of who's pulling ahead, in its own SMS, is that Hanson is the one to stop. The party in government is now in fundraising panic mode against the senator who this month overtook the Prime Minister as preferred PM in the Resolve poll.

GetUp tried this playbook at the press club this morning. It didn't work. Labor appears to be running the same play anyway.

2:28pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson confirms $15,000 court judgment to Jennifer Game, fires back on transparency

The Saturday Paper's Jason Koutsoukis used the final question of the Q&A to raise the summary judgment former South Australian One Nation leader Jennifer Game won against Hanson in the Adelaide Magistrates Court last week for $15,000. Koutsoukis asked why a former party leader had to sue Hanson to recover what she described as ordinary campaign expenses.

Hanson confirmed the judgment from the podium and reframed the case as a claim that didn't meet party criteria.

"She put in a claim of $30,000, which wasn't acceptable and didn't meet the criteria of the party, like many other candidates put in. So because she wasn't happy with it, that went through court. So she only got $15,000 out of it. She was asking for 30."

Koutsoukis then pivoted to transparency, asking whether One Nation would commit to telling voters, not just journalists, how its campaign would be paid for before it happens, rather than after the fact like the major parties.

Hanson pushed back hard, pointing to her audited "Fire the Liar" fund she said she had published publicly the previous week, and turning the question on the Prime Minister.

"Hold on a minute. Didn't we have Fire the Liar last week? We actually got donations from the Australian people. I got an audit done and I put it up there for the people to see. Where's Albanese's? Where's his fund? Where was he up front and showing the people what money was donated to his $27 fund, and where that money came from?"

Koutsoukis told Hanson she could show the major parties up by being more transparent than them. Hanson did not commit to publishing donations before the next election.

2:24pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson tells NCA NewsWire Australia must rebuild its own fuel and fertiliser supply

NCA NewsWire's Nathan Schmidt asked Hanson how she would explain her hard line on migration to the regional neighbours Australia has relied on for fuel in recent months, and to India for fertiliser, given Australia's continued dependence on those supply chains. Hanson initially queried which countries Schmidt was referring to, then accepted his framing and turned the answer back on decades of governments.

"We've had seven, eight oil refineries in this country, with a smaller population than we have now, and yet we've allowed it to dissipate, and governments have got rid of it."

Schmidt pressed her that rebuilding the supply chain would take time and Australia would still need to import in the meantime. Hanson agreed, then used the question to attack approval delays for new industry.

"Why haven't we got our own fertiliser? Why aren't we down there? There was a fellow in Victoria. He went to the state government, and he wanted to set up a fertiliser plant. He went through it for a couple of years with them. And guess what? It never happened. He then had to go over to New Zealand after trying to deal with them for two years to have this industry set up."

Hanson extended the answer into investment confidence, naming Japan and South Korea questioning whether there's predictability in Australia, and arguing poor management had stripped industry from the country.

"There's no investment in Australia anymore. People don't see this as a future here at all. We've got problems now with Japan and South Korea, who are actually saying, is there predictability in Australia to do business here? I'm saying, dig, baby, dig. We need to utilise our resources here in this nation to build the wealth again."

2:21pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson calls for full investigation into childcare spending as Albanese announces pay rise

Network 10's Chloe Bourke noted the Prime Minister had that morning announced a pay rise for childcare workers as part of his push toward a universal childcare system, and asked Hanson what One Nation would do to improve the sector. Hanson called the system "completely out of control" and put it at $15 billion to $16 billion a year. She said the spending needed a full investigation and questioned why childcare workers now needed degrees, citing her own experience.

"When I see that sort of money being put into childcare, I think we need to have a complete investigation into it, where the money's going. I was the mother of four children. I didn't have a university degree to look after my children. Why do we now expect these childcare centres to have students or people with some sort of degree to look after a child? It's just gone out of proportion. It's just ridiculous."

Hanson floated funding following the child and parent rather than the centres.

"If the money goes with the child, with the parent, maybe that would help, rather than these childcare centres, which families are struggling to get their children into."

Pressed on what the system should look like, she said she wasn't putting policy on the run and that the sector needed a full investigation first. Asked about the announced pay rise, she would not back it.

"They just got a pay rise not so long ago. Pay rise, who pays for it? The taxpayer again."

2:21pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson tells SBS abortion the day before birth is abhorrent, says 20 weeks is too late

SBS's Anna Henderson noted One Nation's platform commits to rolling back abortion rights and asked Hanson to nominate a gestational limit. Hanson said it was a discussion that needed to be held with the Australian people, then gave her own view plainly.

"To abort a baby the day before birth is abhorrent and disgusting. And that's what I oppose, and that's what many common sense Australians believe."

She said she opposed abortion for any reason other than medical, said she would rather educate women on contraception, and added there were too many abortions in Australia. Henderson noted some US states ban it from four weeks and pressed Hanson for her own position.

"I am not advocating the time at the stage, but I can tell you, even from 20 weeks, I think it's too late to have an abortion. But definitely 39 weeks to have an abortion, that is clearly not humane."

Henderson then turned to Hanson's plan to abolish SBS, noting the broadcaster delivers Australian news in 60 languages to help migrants integrate. Hanson cut across the question, telling Henderson she would be "without a job" under One Nation, and arguing the internet had taken over SBS's role. Henderson pushed back, asking whether helping migrants integrate wasn't part of Hanson's own platform.

"No, I want them to be able to learn to speak English before they get here, to get their citizenship, and that will help them assimilate into our society, because 872,000 people said they spoke very little English, or none at all. So where's the assimilation? We are a monocultural nation. Not a multicultural, and our language is English, and that will help people actually be able to go out there and get a job."

On the late term abortion exemption, Hanson confirmed without hesitation when asked whether there would be an exemption where the mother's life is in danger.

"Of course. Of course. Most definitely."

2:17pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson tells Croucher One Nation wants five power stations and one reactor to start

Nine's chief political editor Charles Croucher pressed Hanson on the detail of One Nation's nuclear policy, noting the party's website currently advocates a single large scale reactor on the east coast. Croucher asked whether one would be enough, and whether the policy involved public funding or private investment.

Hanson said the Coalition's seven reactor plan at the last election was a mistake, arguing the figures had blown out under attack from the climate change lobby and Simon Holmes à Court, who she said had pinned a $600 billion cost on the policy. She accepted renewable energy in principle but ruled out further onshore wind and solar.

"No more wind turbines to be put in. That will be scrapped. No more solar panels on agricultural land, gone. Put it up on the roofs."

Hanson then laid out her model.

"Five power stations? Yes, we need to have that. One in South Australia, one in Queensland, to deliver the power that we need. And then from there we move forward and put in a reactor to start with one."

Asked whether the reactor would be publicly funded, Hanson said it would be government built on the east coast, with private investment considered but no decision now.

"And I'd like the reactor to go on the east coast. Build one and deliver the power. The more we can get power out to the people, we will increase industries, manufacturing, and bring down the energy cost on people. The government would build that, that would be publicly funded. If we can get private investment in it, we will look at that, but I'm not making that decision now. This is all on the table."

2:13pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson says broadcaster savings would go to homelessness, debt and regional doctors

Sky News's Cam Redden noted Hanson's plan would abolish SBS and move the ABC to a subscription model, freeing up roughly $1 billion to $1.5 billion annually, and asked her how she'd spend it.

Hanson opened by saying she didn't know where to start. She named homelessness and cost of living relief, charities including the Salvos and Red Shield, and making sure children have school shoes and uniforms. She tied the spending to the $1 trillion national debt and put the cost of the ABC alone at $500 million a year.

"Can you imagine where we can spend that 500 million a year in hospitals, in schools? I've even got people wanting beds in hospitals around the country and can't even get doctors out there."

Hanson flagged a specific costed program she said her team had worked up.

"I've got a program that I'm looking at the moment, that we can get 600 extra weeks out of doctors over a four year program of $10.4 million, to get doctors into rural and regional areas."

Pressed on how the money would be allocated, Hanson said her parliamentary team would bring her funding priorities based on need, not politics.

"I'll sort that out with my team. The members of parliament that I have around me, they will come to me with where money needs to be. A priority, not to my votes out there, but a priority to help the Australian people."

2:10pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson defends tight control of One Nation branches when pressed on free speech

A reporter put it to Hanson that One Nation's policy includes pushing for a constitutional protection of free speech and repealing laws restricting it, then asked whether those same free speech protections would still allow One Nation to impose gag orders on its own branch members.

Hanson said she had only restarted branches last August, after dissolving them following the first iteration of One Nation when she ran 350 branches and could not contain the internal damage.

"I wouldn't have branches prior to that because we had 350 branches the first time around I formed One Nation. I had nothing but trouble putting out bushfires. People who thought they were in these executive positions, and thought they were running the party."

Hanson said this time she was vetting people carefully and would not lose control of her own party to a branch member.

"We've restricted these people until we know who they are. I have to be in total control of it. And I'm not going to allow you to drag me down through some member of a branch."

The answer sits against the constitutional free speech protection Hanson was defending moments earlier.

2:07pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson and Canberra Times clash over whether ACT branch has met

The Canberra Times' Dana Daniel asked whether One Nation has an active support base in the ACT, noting the Canberra branch launched in November had not held a public meeting and no members had been allowed to speak to media. Daniel also asked Hanson, as someone who spent significant time in Canberra, how she rated the capital, given conservatives frequently criticise it.

Hanson said she tried to keep out of Canberra as much as possible but loved her job. She then directly contradicted Daniel's reporting on the branch.

"No, we have started the branch here, and when I held the first meeting they had over 200 people there, so it's going extremely well in Canberra. Marcus is the coordinator for it. He has asked me to come and I'll come one day. We've got strong support in Canberra. Go to the Kingo. I just get so many people come up to me, wanting their photos and talk to me, and they're really pleased to see me."

2:03pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson tells Spectator ministers would direct the public service, not the other way around

The Spectator's Michael de Percy opened by telling Hanson there were no hypotheticals about One Nation possibly being in government anymore, and asked how a One Nation government would manage its relationship with an Australian Public Service that critics now describe as politicised.

Hanson pushed back on the premise, saying government was still hypothetical and she had to prove herself to the Australian people first. She then turned to the substance of the question, attacking both bureaucrats and the ministers who manage them.

"The public service has been, I think, poorly run for a long, long time. We've got the bureaucrats in there who've had the attitude, well, I've been here for long term, you just come and go. We're actually going to do what we want to do."

Hanson said the deeper problem was incompetent ministers who relied on their departments to brief them.

"I also blame the government, I blame the ministers who hold these portfolios, because I deal with them and I've spoken to them on the floor of Parliament. They are incompetent and they are useless. They don't know what they're doing. They don't know how to run their portfolios, and they rely on the departments and the bureaucrats to give them the information."

Hanson then laid out her model for ministerial control of the bureaucracy under a One Nation government.

"I want to run a government where the ministers will be across their briefs. They will know what they're talking about. They will tell the bureaucrats what's going to happen. Under One Nation, we will go in there and say, right, we'll get legislation passed, this is what we want to do. We'll go to the department heads and say, this is it, this is how you run it. Not the other way around."

2:03pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson says Indigenous agency savings go to consolidated revenue on a needs basis

National Indigenous Affairs Editor at SBS and NITV, John Paul Janke asked Hanson what would happen to the housing, water security, jobs programs, cost of living measures and family and children's safety services delivered through the National Indigenous Australians Agency if One Nation abolished it, as Hanson said it would, to save $45 million. The journalist asked what would happen to those services and the Australians in remote communities who use them.

Hanson said she agreed with the journalist's concern but her vision for Australia was that every citizen was treated the same regardless of race.

"My vision for Australia is that we're all Australians. Regardless of race, colour, creed, there you are. We're all treated as Australians equally on an individual needs basis, not based on race. That money will go into consolidated revenue, where any Australian can get that help if they need help."

Hanson then escalated, claiming Indigenous spending across all levels of government totalled around $30 billion a year.

"All this money that we've paid out, probably about 30 billion plus a year. Where is it gone? Where's the accountability? Where has the gap been closed? Where is the education for these young Aboriginals? Their health issues, their education. You can't tell me that in the classroom, because you're Aboriginal, you actually have extra teaching in education, everything paid for, and the child is decided as an Aboriginal, but they're in poverty as well. That's what I want to cut out."

Asked where she got the $30 billion figure, Hanson attributed it to a long tail of media reporting on state and federal spending.

"From state and federal, it's been advocated for many, many times through media outlets that money have spent. This is all the other programs that go there. Even Aboriginal corporations are treated totally different to any other Australian corporation. The inequality, the differences have to change."

2:00pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson denies role in daughter's appointment, tells Guardian reporter she's banned from future interviews

The Guardian's Sarah Martin asked Hanson directly whether she had any role in appointing her daughter Lee Hanson to a New South Wales senator's office. Martin put the taxpayer cost at more than $150,000 a year and noted Lee Hanson appeared to be campaigning full time in Tasmania while employed as a political advisor to a New South Wales based senator.

Hanson opened with a sustained personal attack on Martin and confirmed an effective ban on The Guardian.

"Honestly, you never give up. I've never seen a person that's such a trashy journalist. You've got this obsession with constantly trying to pull down myself, my party, or Mrs Rinehart, whatever you do. You will be banned from my answering. I'll answer this question today, but I'm telling you now, don't come near me for an interview in the future, because in 25 of your articles, in 28 articles, it's constantly bashing One Nation. You don't research properly, you don't know information, and you put out lies about me."

Hanson then answered the question directly.

"No, I didn't get her that job. She got the job on her own merits by someone who actually wanted to employ her. Her abilities, her skills in HR, her abilities working for the Tas University for eight years, and she was head of a department down there. So my daughter is very capable of doing it, and feel very concerned that she might end up in the Senate with me. If I'm fortunate enough to get elected by the people of Queensland, you're going to have a lot to write about then, aren't you?"

Asked to clarify she had no role at all in the appointment, Hanson said only "I have given you my answer".

Pressed on the optics of a Tasmania based staffer working for a New South Wales senator, Hanson compared the arrangement to Liberal senator Simon Birmingham having a senior advisor based in Tasmania, and added that COVID had normalised remote work.

"We could actually run the country through Zoom during COVID. We had our meetings on our computers. What is the problem now? Is it because it's One Nation? And do you have a problem because it's my daughter? I don't believe in nepotism. Either you can do the job or you can't do the job. If you can't do it, you won't be around there."

1:56pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson tells SMH her concern is radical Islam when asked about Muslim migration

The Sydney Morning Herald and Age's James Massola asked Hanson directly whether Australia was in danger of being swamped by Muslim migration. Hanson answered without hesitation.

"Not if I got any say in it."

Massola asked whether she thought it was already happening. Hanson reframed the issue to radical Islam, citing ASIO figures she said put around 18,000 people on a watch list with around 220 very serious cases, and referenced the Bondi attack.

"As I said, it's radical Islam. That is my grave concern. We've got 18,000 people on ASIO watch list at the moment, and probably 220 very serious. In a country like this, what about what happened in Bondi? We can't keep up with the personnel to keep an eye on these people. I'm not apologising for anything."

Hanson then listed Britain, Canada, France and Germany as warnings, trailing off mid sentence. Massola asked if those countries were something she was guarding against. The "shitholes" framing was offered from the floor of the room. Hanson picked it up and agreed.

"Shitholes. Yes, and I don't want Australia to become like that."

1:56pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson says most Australians would accept leaving the UN despite warned consequences

The moderator put to Hanson that One Nation's policy of withdrawing Australia from the United Nations, framed in the speech as a waste saving worth a few hundred million dollars, came with a list of real consequences. No country has ever withdrawn, the moderator noted, and Australia could lose shipping rights, aviation links, e-gate passport recognition and routine visa processing, with the wait potentially running into weeks or months. Hanson said the average Australian would still accept it.

"The average Australian out there, yes, they do. What it is with the UN, we saw the control that I feel that we've lost control over our country. You can work with other countries, by all means. But I believe in our own sovereignty. I believe in our own governments. And I don't believe that we should be dictated to by the UN or other countries."

Hanson cited her own meeting with the European Union as an example.

"I went to the European Union, and I spoke to them over there, and we were asking about, you're going to give us a free trade deal for Australia. They turned and they said to me, not until you actually comply with climate change policies. So basically, you will do what we say. That's not the country that I want."

Pressed on whether she was committing to renegotiating shipping lane rights with every country in the world, Hanson refused to engage with the detail and pushed any decision into the next term.

"No, I'm not getting into that now. We need to look at where we are with the United Nations, and I'm telling you, I'm a person that wants to govern our own country. Let's see what happens at the time. It's at least two years down the track."

1:53pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson rejects Trump style pressure on the RBA, targets NDIS rorts

The Australian's Greg Brown asked Hanson what a One Nation government's relationship with the Reserve Bank would look like, and whether she would pressure the governor and board to cut rates the way Donald Trump has pressured the US Federal Reserve. Hanson rejected the Trump comparison outright and said the answer was for the government to rein in its own spending.

"You can't, the RBA is totally different to the executive of the government. What the government has to do is pull their heads in with their spending. I'd get rid of the climate change department, the Aboriginal department, and also the duplication of some of those with education and the health departments that are duplicated with the states. We can cut a lot of spending."

Hanson then turned to the NDIS, which she put at around $52 billion, and said the government's plan to push 160,000 Australians off the scheme would deny some people genuine help. Her preferred approach was to chase the rorters first.

"NDIS needs to be cut back. But the government is going to reduce it by 160,000 Australians. Some of those possibly really do need that help and assistance with NDIS. They're going to deny them. So what we need to do is go after the rorters, the scammers, the people that are ripping off the system to pull back the cost to the NDIS, which is about $52 billion now."

Hanson gave Bill Shorten credit as the best NDIS minister, and said previous Coalition ministers Stuart Robert and Linda Reynolds were hopeless in the portfolio.

Brown pressed her on whether she would still replicate Trump's pressure on the Fed. Hanson said the answer was inflation control through spending restraint, not pressure on the central bank, and tied it to the economy under Labor.

"If you actually rein in your spending, interest rates are going up connected with inflation. If you pull in government spending, stop wasting the dollars and pay down our debt, that is going to not reflect on the RBA. Where is our small business? 50,000 have closed under this government. Over 1,400 manufacturing industries gone. They run it into the ground. That's why the high inflation, and that's why we also have interest rates going up. The governor doesn't want to put it up, but the writing's on the wall."

1:49pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson tells West Australian One Nation now runs international candidate vetting

The West Australian's Katina Curtis told Hanson she had clearly been professionalising the party structure, and asked her to walk through how One Nation vets candidates and staff. Curtis asked whether the process went beyond police checks and bankruptcy records, and what Hanson's red lines were on who she would hire or endorse.

Hanson said the party had stepped up its vetting process and now ran an international check on top of the domestic process.

"We've stepped up the vetting process. They go through a whole vetting process, even international vetting process, plus what's here, with their Facebook page, what they put, what they've said in the past, and are they really compatible with our policies and do they believe in what we want to achieve and do."

Hanson said One Nation faced more scrutiny than any major party and pointed to the work she had done rebuilding the party since 2015.

"I think One Nation's scrutinised a hell of a lot more than any other political party. The focus has always been on us. You really need to have a look at the other political parties, the problems that they've had over the years. But I've only been back running this party again since 2015 in the elections that we have. We didn't have the big machine behind us. So we've had to build that. Over that period of time I've got strong foundations now. We've improved our resources, we've got more people on board."

1:46pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson tells AFR to clean up our own backyard first on foreign aid

The AFR's Phil Coorey asked whether Hanson still opposes foreign aid, given its role as soft diplomacy against China's rise in the Pacific, during the Q&A.

Hanson pointed to corruption and waste in aid to Papua New Guinea, cited 130,000 Australians living in poverty at home, and noted China's Belt and Road presence, arguing Australian aid should come with conditions on a country's relationship with Beijing.

"Clean up our own backyard first. When I can put a roof over people's heads, put food on the table for our Australian people, then we might be able to increase and help others."

Pressed on whether she would cut aid to countries that also take Chinese money, Hanson said her concern was countries accepting from China while relying on Australian dollars.

1:43pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson tells ABC she'll release a tax policy before the election, warns of death duties

The ABC's David Speers picked up on Hanson's line that her views hadn't changed in 30 years and asked whether she still backed the flat 25% income tax rate she had argued for in the Senate.

Hanson did not commit either way, said the tax system needed a full overhaul, and warned voters that Labor with Greens support would bring in death duties at the next term.

"We have to overhaul our tax system. We are one of the highest taxed countries in the world. When people have that money after paying their PAYG tax, what's left in their pocket, we're paying another 10% on top of that again. I don't trust this government. I believe that at the next election, if they're elected again, with the Greens, they will introduce death duties or an inheritance tax."

Hanson would not preview the policy itself but flagged the broad design.

"I'm not going to give you where my head's at the moment for tax policy. I intend to speak to those experts, economists, people that I trust have a good understanding of our tax system. But before the next election I will introduce a tax system for all Australians, give them incentives. At the moment, we want pensioners, age pensioners, veterans, and I'm looking at students, to be able to work unlimited hours and they can then be taxed on that, but it doesn't affect their pensions or the healthcare card."

She then laid out income splitting and an overtime sweetener.

"I want income splitting. I want people to be able to split their income so that families where the mum and dad want to stay home, to give them help. Those people who are working overtime should have, don't tax them. Let them do as much overtime as they can."

1:39pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson tells Seven's Mark Riley the cost driver is electricity, not wages

Seven's Mark Riley delivered the most pointed challenge of the Q&A, walking Hanson through her Senate voting record on worker entitlements.

Riley noted she had criticised minimum wage increases, opposed same job same pay, voted against casual workers' rights, against wage theft criminalisation, against workplace protections for the gig economy, and had recently argued again for more powers for bosses to sack workers. He asked how any of that helped working Australians.

Hanson refused the framing and pivoted to small business viability.

"Is it really working for small business out there? Industries, manufacturing. I was speaking to one business person, he said the latest increase is going to cost him $50,000 for his business, and he said, I've got to find $100,000 to pay that. He said, I'm going to have to let people go. So it is a great concern. You need to look at the other side of the ledger. Can businesses afford and pay that? I've been in small business. This government hasn't. Albanese and Chalmers haven't."

Hanson named electricity as the real cost of living driver for business and said industrial relations needed a complete overhaul.

"Why is the increase in cost of living? Because there's electricity charges. That's the main thing, which is costing business right across the whole board. Industrial relations, I can assure you, needs a complete overhaul because it's not working. Businesses also tell me, you can't sack people these days. They're on their phones, they don't work, they don't turn up. They actually are lazy. And businesses are tied to it."

Asked about same job same pay, Hanson said the pay gap reflected time out of the workforce, not unequal rates of pay.

"If you're male or female, you do get the same pay. That's all smoke and mirrors. If you're an airline pilot, male or female, you get the same pay. If you're a hostie, same pay. You do the work, you get the pay. The difference is that if women take time off they're not paid their wages, because they're not working. Why should business pay them if they're not at work? That's the difference. That's why the pay gap is there."

1:35pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson stands by Tim Fischer claim under challenge from Michelle Grattan

Veteran political journalist Michelle Grattan opened the Q&A on policy by clearing up an unrelated matter first. Grattan put it to Hanson that her recent claim, that the late Nationals leader Tim Fischer had called her a witch and said she should be burned at the stake, had been denied by Fischer at the time. Grattan noted no contemporaneous record had been located by anyone, including Fischer's biographer, who had done a thorough job across multiple editions. She also noted Fischer's widow was now upset about the resurfaced claim. Grattan asked Hanson to either provide evidence or admit she might be mistaken.

Hanson refused to walk it back.

"I'm not mistaken, Michelle. I read it in the newspaper myself. Read something like that about yourself, it's like, wow, whoa. So anyway, I don't deny reading it. It was back many years ago, 96, 97, I can't pick what year it was, but it was definitely written in the newspaper."

The claim remains unverified, with no contemporaneous record located by Fischer's biographer or others.

1:30pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson confirms ABC and Guardian bans as Q&A opens on media access

The Press Club moderator opened the Q&A by asking whether, with One Nation leading the polls, Hanson would hold daily news conferences for a travelling press pack and allow all media organisations at the next election.

Hanson confirmed she has banned both the ABC and The Guardian, and said she would not be anyone's football to kick around.

"I want truthful, honest reporting from the media. You will have access to me. The public must know that we're going to answer the questions for the public, with truth and honesty."

Asked whether banned outlets would get a clean slate at the start of a campaign, Hanson left it open, saying "let's see how it goes" and warning she has a long memory.

1:25pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson turns on the press gallery, says scrutiny is fine but delegitimising is not

Senator Pauline Hanson used the closing stretch of her National Press Club address to confront the assembled press gallery directly, telling journalists that One Nation's rising support brought greater responsibility and that she welcomed scrutiny, but drew a hard line at what she called the media's attempts to delegitimise the party.

Hanson said it was the media's job to scrutinise One Nation's people, policies and candidates, and that unlike the Prime Minister she invited it. She then listed what she said scrutiny did not licence.

"It doesn't give you the license to deal legitimise my party. It doesn't give you the license to say preferencing one nation is immoral. It doesn't give you the license to continue to repeat the lie that we are a racist party, because that is untrue."

Hanson told the room trust in the media, government and public institutions was at an all-time low, and put the fix back on the journalists in front of her.

"I don't answer to the media. I answer to the Australian people."

The confrontation landed inside the press gallery's own building, at the institution's flagship event, on live television. That was the point.

1:17pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson says AI cannot be left to self-regulation, commits One Nation to enforceable safeguards

Senator Pauline Hanson used her National Press Club address to argue artificial intelligence is the largest economic and technological shift since the Industrial Revolution, and that the Albanese government had ignored it almost entirely by leaving regulation to the corporations building it.

Hanson said AI would reshape jobs, relationships, privacy, safety and democratic participation, and that public trust was a prerequisite for adoption. She committed One Nation to a middle path of encouraging AI uptake while imposing enforceable safeguards where it touched people's rights.

"AI should not be left entirely to self regulation, public trust is essential for widespread adoption."

Hanson conceded she did not yet have all the answers on protecting jobs, but drew a contrast with what she framed as Labor's habit of overpromising. The honesty of "I don't claim to have the answers now" is the line that separates the AI section from the rest of the speech, where she claimed plenty.

1:14pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson invokes Germaine Greer and names AIDS Council of NSW over workplace equity push

Senator Pauline Hanson invoked Germaine Greer's gender-critical position during her National Press Club address and named the AIDS Council of New South Wales as the lead advocate driving what she called the corporate and government adoption of transgender ideology through the Australian Workplace Equity Index.

Hanson said health regulatory bodies, corporates and the Office of the Commonwealth Ombudsman had all signed up to the Index, paying the AIDS Council of NSW for advice and services.

"It's worth pointing out that it's 15 years since Germaine Greer said in a debate about sex and gender that sex is fundamentally tied to the body, and that transgender women are not female."

Hanson framed the Workplace Equity Index as a regulatory capture mechanism that allowed an advocacy body to set the parameters across Australian institutions without parliamentary oversight.

1:11pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson argues civil debate is paralysed and the media is complicit

Senator Pauline Hanson used her National Press Club address to argue that Australian civil debate has been paralysed by fear of social and professional consequences for speaking out, with the media complicit in amplifying that fear rather than challenging it.

Hanson said the Voice referendum result was the moment that fear broke, with voters showing they were not prepared to be silenced.

"Many people feel that they can't indulge that essential Australian characteristic of speaking out and speaking up, because the risk of speaking out is simply too great. They feel demonised and condescended. And they're mad as hell about it."

She framed the paralysis as part of the political earthquake reshaping the landscape and reshaping support for parties outside the major-party duopoly.

1:07pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson warns interest rates heading to 10% under Albanese government spending

Senator Pauline Hanson used her National Press Club address to warn that the Albanese government's spending was driving interest rates toward 10% and pricing young Australians out of housing entirely.

Hanson cited Reserve Bank and IMF warnings that government spending was breeding inflation, with the RBA's response being to keep raising rates.

"Regardless of whether you've got 500,000 homes available tomorrow, try borrowing on a single income. But under this government, interest rates are heading towards 10%. Young people can't afford the deposit, let alone the mortgage repayments."

Hanson tied the interest rate trajectory to her broader argument that the housing crisis is downstream of Labor's fiscal posture, not just supply constraints.

1:03pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson cites Australian Energy Regulator data on rising disconnections and household debt

Senator Pauline Hanson used Australian Energy Regulator data during her National Press Club address to argue household electricity hardship had worsened sharply under the Albanese government, citing a 22.8% rise in average electricity debt for customers on hardship programs over the past year and a 22.2% rise in gas hardship debt.

Hanson said more than 6,200 electricity customers had been disconnected in the first quarter of 2026, with average debt at the point of disconnection above $2,600. She acknowledged new rules taking effect from July preventing disconnection for debts below $500.

"Stop blaming the Middle East. Electricity prices increased across all regions before the war in the Middle East."

Hanson used the AER figures to argue the energy debt problem predated international supply shocks and traces back to domestic policy choices.

12:59pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson takes aim at Andrew Forrest's hydrogen play and federal Head Start program

Senator Pauline Hanson used her National Press Club address to name billionaire Andrew Forrest's hydrogen ambitions and the federal government's Hydrogen Head Start program as examples of what she called "rot" inside the renewables subsidy framework.

Hanson said the Hydrogen Head Start program had received $4 billion across four budgets and that Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had announced a further $520 million for green hydrogen projects outside that program.

"It's clear that the hydrogen energy solution is blowing up in Australia's face, or should I say, Andrew Forrest's face?"

Fortescue Energy paused its US and Arizona green hydrogen projects in 2024 and has scaled back hydrogen ambitions globally, citing commercial viability concerns. Hanson's use of that retreat as exhibit one for her policy lock-in arrives as the federal program remains funded across the forward estimates.

12:56pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson quotes former Biden energy adviser Amos Hochstein on limits of renewables

Senator Pauline Hanson invoked former Biden administration special coordinator for energy security Amos Hochstein during her National Press Club address, using a Hochstein quote to argue renewables cannot replace oil and gas in shipping, aviation, plastics or hospital supply chains.

"Renewables don't compete with oil. They don't supply solutions to aviation. We rely on more shipping that doesn't run on renewables. Yes, we should invest more in renewables, but they won't solve this crisis anytime soon. The inside of an electric vehicle is still made of plastic that is made from fuel and petroleum. Our hospitals are made entirely from petroleum. Our masks, our syringes, MRI machines, CT scans all need helium, which comes from natural gas."

Hochstein served as the Biden administration's senior energy diplomat. Hanson used his framing to argue against an Australian energy framework relying solely on renewables, while not opposing renewables in the mix.

12:52pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson revives Fire the Liar attack on Albanese's broken promises

Senator Pauline Hanson revived the "Fire the Liar" slogan during her National Press Club address, running through what she said were broken Albanese government promises from the 2022 and 2025 election campaigns.

Hanson named the unmet $275 power bill reduction, the broader "A Better Future" framing, and Albanese's pre-2025 election denials of capital gains tax and negative gearing changes that have since materialised in budget settings.

"Let me be blunt, if you lie once. Why won't you lie again and again and again?"

The framing positioned every contested Labor measure as a credibility test rather than a policy debate.

12:47pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson reads Salvos survey into the record, one in five ate from a bin

Senator Pauline Hanson read the Salvation Army's 2026 Red Shield report into the National Press Club record, citing a survey of 4,400 low income Australians to charge the Albanese government with presiding over hunger and deprivation at home while increasing immigration.

From the Salvos survey, Hanson cited 19% who had eaten food from a rubbish bin in the past 12 months, 91% who had skipped meals, 32% skipping meals daily, 35% surviving on a single meal a day, and 67% watering down food and drinks to make them last. She then read the figure she paused the room on.

"35% of parents said their children had gone to school hungry."

Hanson followed it with 59% of parents whose children had missed school because they could not afford the transport. She turned the numbers back on the chamber.

"How can we hold our heads up? How can we, as members of Parliament, who were supposed to represent the people of this nation, allowed that to happen?"

The bin figure is the one that travels. It is the single hardest statistic in the speech and Hanson knew it when she read it.

12:43pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson attacks Labor negative gearing changes as housing crisis multiplier

Senator Pauline Hanson used her National Press Club address to argue Labor's signalled changes to negative gearing would worsen the housing crisis by driving investment out of housing supply at the precise moment supply is shortest.

Hanson said the budget changes ran against the practical reality of how investors decide where to put capital.

"If you make a change to negative gearing, investment will move away from housing. That is common sense. But common sense is not common."

She tied the policy to Labor's broader credibility problem, naming it alongside capital gains tax changes the government had ruled out before the 2025 election.

12:39pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson cites Ed Husain's The Islamist as foundation of One Nation deportation policy

Senator Pauline Hanson used her National Press Club address to ground her radical Islam policy in former British Islamist Ed Husain's book The Islamist, the 2007 memoir tracing Husain's path into and back out of radical Islam in the United Kingdom.

Hanson quoted directly from Husain's text on the threat Islamist groups posed to Western democracies.

"Islamist groups pose a threat to this country that we, Muslims and non-Muslims alike, do not yet understand. I illustrate the depth of the problem that now grips Muslim hearts and minds, and I lay there what politicians and Muslim community leaders do not want you to know."

Husain's book has been cited in policy debates across the UK and Australia since publication. Hanson's use of it at the Press Club anchored her deportation framework in a source the establishment has historically taken seriously.

12:35pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson names Coalition Senator Paul Scarr over blocked immigration plebiscite

Senator Pauline Hanson used her National Press Club address to call out Queensland Coalition Senator Paul Scarr by name for blocking her 2024 push for a national plebiscite on immigration numbers, citing his Senate debate remark that the issue was "too complex" to put to the Australian people.

Hanson framed Scarr's intervention as proof of the political establishment's view of voters.

"That disgusting comment says all you need to know about the political establishment's contempt for the Australian people, contempt for their intelligence and contempt for the very concept of actually listening to them."

The Senate voted Hanson's plebiscite motion down two years ago. The Coalition's role in that vote sits awkwardly against its current attempt to position itself as the immigration-restriction party.

12:30pm 17 June 2026 — Hanson opens by taking aim at Nine over Gina Rinehart jet coverage

Senator Pauline Hanson opened her National Press Club address with a deadpan jab at Channel Nine over the network's recent reporting on her travel arrangements, asking the room whether Nine was present and clarifying her flight class for the record.

"Is Channel 9 here? I just want to clarify that, no, Gina's jet is not broken, and I didn't come cattle class, or I did come cattle class, actually. So anyway, just if you're dwelling on that, what question are you going to ask me?"

The reference was to recent Nine reporting on Hanson and mining magnate Gina Rinehart. The opening signalled she was not there to be polite.

11:47am 17 June 2026 — Canberra Socialists rally outside as Hanson arrives with Barnaby Joyce

Hanson arrived for her address as a Canberra Socialists protest gathered outside, with signs reading "migrants are welcome, racists are not" and chants of "Pauline Hanson go to hell, take your racists there as well". Security around the building was heightened.

She walked in alongside One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce, who's understood to have helped prepare her address and her handling of questions. The protest is led by Canberra Socialists, a new ACT party that says it wants to disrupt the woman a Resolve poll this month named preferred prime minister.

10:52am 17 June 2026 — Barnaby Joyce takes One Nation Treasury role, says Liberals have lost their grip on economics

Barnaby Joyce has confirmed he will serve as One Nation's Treasury spokesman, and used the announcement to land a swipe at the party he left, telling Sky News the Liberals had surrendered the economic ground that was once theirs. Joyce, who defected from the Nationals in November after a decades-long career, pointed to his background as an accountant and business owner to argue he is suited to the role.

"We can't have Pauline Hanson trying to cover everything, and within that divvy I am focusing on Treasury. I don't think that's unreasonable."

He took direct aim at shadow treasurer Tim Wilson, accusing the Liberals of failing to prosecute the case against the federal budget.

"And the Liberal Party, whose strong sweep used to be economics, used to be treasury, it is now not. I'm not going to give a personal attribute to Mr Wilson, but I would say that his training is more in the fine arts than it is in economics."

The appointment is a tell in itself. A party still routinely described as a protest movement is naming portfolio spokesmen and handing Treasury to a former deputy prime minister, the structure of an outfit preparing to be taken seriously rather than one content to shout from the crossbench. That it can poach a Treasury frontman from the Coalition while topping the primary vote is the part that should worry Tim Wilson more than the fine arts jab.

7:05am 17 June 2026 — Pauline Hanson delivers her first National Press Club address today

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson takes the National Press Club of Australia podium in Canberra this afternoon for the Leaders Address to the National Press Club. The televised luncheon runs 11:30am to 1:30pm AEST at the Club's Barton venue. Bookings closed last week.

Hanson delivers a speech before facing questions from a panel of journalists, including Nine's chief political editor Charles Croucher. It's her first NPC address since she entered federal politics in 1996.

Senator Barnaby Joyce, One Nation's deputy, told Nine's Today on Monday that the address would be unlike any other press conference.

"Pauline will be up for grilling and people will be out for her with steak knives, I can see that coming from a mile away. We've got to man up to the challenge."

The address lands days after the weekend's Resolve Political Monitor for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age put One Nation ahead on primary vote at 29% and Hanson ahead of Albanese as preferred prime minister at 33%.

It's taken 30 years for Hanson to deliver a Leaders Address at the press establishment's flagship venue. She arrives as the leader of the party leading the national primary vote.

4:25pm 16 June 2026 — The "outsourcing" story: One Nation used a template to build 150 candidate pages at once

News.com.au has an "exclusive" that One Nation uses virtual assistants in the Philippines to set up its candidates' Facebook pages, presented as a hypocrisy gotcha against a party that campaigns on Australian jobs. One Nation confirmed the lot, on the record, because there's nothing to hide: during election cycles, virtual assistants populate a template to establish the pages in bulk.

"They don't control the Facebook pages. All of the content is created here," a spokesman said. "When establishing 150 candidate pages all at once, we use a template that is populated by virtual assistants."

That's the whole story. A party spinning up 150 local candidate pages at once used an offshore template service to do the grunt work, while every word of actual content is written in Australia. The "$4 to $8 an hour" the piece leans on isn't what One Nation pays, it's news.com.au's guess at general market rates, a detail the article concedes three times over.

Worth asking how many of the outlets running this line have checked their own Facebook transparency panels, since offshore page admins and digital contractors are standard across the entire media and political landscape. A template populated overseas is not a policy written overseas, and One Nation's policies, for better or worse depending on where you sit, remain stubbornly made in Australia.

4:25pm 16 June 2026 — "Cut the guts right out of it": Hanson demands the tobacco excise be repealed

Pauline Hanson has called on the Albanese government to repeal the tobacco excise, arguing the relentless tax hikes have handed organised crime a multi-billion dollar industry.

"What a stupid thing the government has done in constantly raising the excise tax on it, and it's going up again in September," she told 2GB. "Cut the excise tax, cut the guts right out of it so you don't give them an industry out there for these mongrels." Asked if she would put the excise on the chopping block in government, she didn't hesitate: "You have to."

The numbers are firmly on her side, and most of them are the government's own. ABS data this month found nicotine consumption up nearly 40% between 2017 and 2025 against population growth of just 14%, driven by illicit products, while the illicit share of the tobacco market exploded from 12% in 2017 to 80% by 2025.

Excise revenue has collapsed from a $16.3 billion peak in 2019-20 to a forecast $5.5 billion this year, and Oxford Economics Australia recommended cutting the excise back to 2019 levels and strengthening enforcement to shift smokers back to the legal market, the exact fix Hanson is demanding. When the policy you're ridiculed for proposing is the one the economists are quietly recommending and the firebombings are loudly proving, the ridicule says more about the government than the policy.

9:38am 16 June 2026 — Behind in the polls, Albanese questions whether Hanson could handle world leaders

With the Resolve Political Monitor showing a third of voters now prefer Hanson as prime minister, ahead of his own 29%, Anthony Albanese has landed on his line of attack: whether the One Nation leader could effectively negotiate with diverse world leaders if she held the job. It's the argument of an incumbent who has run out of the usual ones, reaching past the polls to question his rival's temperament for a room full of presidents.

It's also an odd hill for this Prime Minister to choose. Albanese spent the past month circling the G7, NATO and assorted summits trying to secure a single sit-down with Donald Trump, with [a planned meeting on the G7 sidelines cancelled when the US President left the summit early. Australia still has no tariff exemption and no certainty on the future of AUKUS. A leader whose own dealings with Australia's most important ally have produced so little is on shaky ground lecturing anyone about negotiating with world leaders. Voters, on the current numbers, appear to have noticed.

8:03pm 16 June 2026 — Counter hits $4.23 million, goal lifted again to $4.4 million

The Fire the Liar counter now reads $4,234,606 from 68,986 donors, with the goal lifted yet again to $4.4 million. That's better than four times the original $1 million target, raised in under a fortnight, at an average donation still sitting around $61.

As for where it goes, One Nation's stated plan hasn't changed since launch: billboards, TV and radio advertising in Labor-held seats, plus support for the party's candidates. On top of the Wednesday State of Origin commercial and the promised helicopter banners over major cities, the only hardware confirmed so far is the fleet of mobile billboard trucks already circling Anthony Albanese's Grayndler electorate. The party has not published a line-by-line budget, and with donations tax deductible only until 30 June, the counter has a fortnight of runway left before the financial year closes the drive.

10:36pm 15 June 2026 — First look at the Fire the Liar ad, airing during Wednesday's State of Origin

Pauline Hanson has released a first look at the Fire the Liar TV commercial, which One Nation will run during State of Origin Game 2 this Wednesday night, the MCG clash between the Blues and Maroons. "We've been able to do this because of you and your donations," she said, posting the ad to supporters. It's the donor funded blitz made literal: a $27 fight that's now buying airtime in the most watched broadcast of the Australian winter.

The placement carries its own message. Game 2 is in Melbourne, the city that drove Hanson's fundraiser across town on Friday and the state where Labor just slid to third in the polls. The chopper banners Hanson promised for major cities are still to come, but the television spot is locked for Wednesday, in front of the biggest Victorian audience of the year.

3:44pm 14 June 2026 — Hanson takes Fire the Liar to the footy: TV ads in State of Origin, banners under helicopters

Pauline Hanson has revealed where the $3 million war chest is going, and it's straight into prime time. The One Nation leader said on Sunday the party is "working on TV commercials for State of Origin and giant banners that will fly beneath helicopters across our major cities because of your donations." From a $27 ad campaign to chopper banners over the capitals in under a week. "This is real money, real data, and a real campaign to get rid of Labor," she said in a social media post, releasing what she called a "heat map" of where the roughly 50,000 donations had come from. "Albo, you underestimated the anger of the Australian people and as a result, we're coming after you."

The escalation lands as Labor hardens its rhetoric against a party now topping the primary vote in multiple polls, with Albanese taking to describing more than one "Opposition Leader." Liberal leader Angus Taylor declined this week to rule out a deal with One Nation after party president Tony Abbott floated a preference swap, and Hanson herself has begun talking openly about her own potential as prime minister. The truck billboard parked outside Albanese's electorate office earlier in the week now looks like the modest end of the operation.

4:21am 13 June 2026 — $3.42 million from 55,452 Australians, and the goal moves again

The Fire the Liar counter reads $3,419,448 this morning, from 55,452 donors, with the goal lifted yet again, now to $3.6 million. That's an average donation of around $62, and a counter that's added roughly $400,000 since AAP reported the $3 million mark on Friday.

For anyone keeping score against the Prime Minister's "slogans, not substance" line: the audited counter has now raised more than three times its original $1 million goal in four days, from a donor base that would fill the MCG's bottom tier. Labor's rival drive remains uncounted and unpublished.

9:30pm 12 June 2026 — "Who should be apologising to who?": Hanson flips the Daily Mail's script

A thousand people marched through Moonee Ponds on Friday night against what they called a party of hate, and by evening's end the only people recorded wishing death on anyone were the marchers. "Die Pauline" was screamed in the senator's face, Sky News cameras filmed a "DEATH TO ONE NATION" banner, and Giorgio Casa folded by lunchtime citing safety, despite Victoria Police confirming no threats on record.

The sold out dinner went ahead anyway, rebuilt 12 kilometres away in South Melbourne by 5:30pm, where Joyce told the room the protesters are "so terrified of the change coming they are willing to say I want you gone, I want you dead." Buried in the protest's own promotional material: Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi, billed to speak at a rally calling for a fellow senator to be driven out of a Melbourne suburb. The full timeline, the banner, and the law that protects political opinion →

2:15pm 12 June 2026 — "Who should be apologising to who?": Hanson flips the Daily Mail's script

The Daily Mail contacted Pauline Hanson asking whether she'd apologised for the Perth Airport exchange, the one where Channel Nine's reporter asked why she didn't fly Gina's jet and whether she flew cattle class, and Hanson telling her to "get some credibility about you as a journalist and learn respect as well." Her answer was to post the full unedited clip and let the public score it.

"Hmmmm, I'm curious who should be apologising to who? Here's the relentless questioning from the Nine reporter. You be the judge."

Her office went one further, confirming the party is seeking an apology from the reporter, not offering one. "This is why mainstream media have lost much of the respect from the public. As far as I'm aware the young journalist in question hasn't apologised to Senator Hanson," a spokesperson said. The first airport clip clocked 19,000 views inside 34 minutes. Nine is yet to respond.

1:37pm 12 June 2026 — A defence economist's "might" becomes a conscription headline

Defence budget economist Marcus Hellyer of Strategic Analysis Australia, formerly ASPI's cost of defence specialist, told The Age that spending 5% of GDP would total around $400 billion over four years and "might" require some form of national service, because "you won't get there voluntarily in peacetime." A feasibility question from an analyst whose own outfit argues for higher defence spending.

By the time it reached the headlines, the hedged hypothetical had become Hanson's "conscription" plan, complete with a reach back to the Vietnam era birthday ballot.

Nothing in One Nation's policy proposes mandatory service, and Hellyer doesn't claim it does.

What Hanson actually called for is the 5% of GDP NATO committed to at The Hague Summit, to be reached by 2035, split at least 3.5% on core defence and up to 1.5% on infrastructure, civil preparedness and the industrial base, and what Washington has asked its allies to do to pull their weight. Meanwhile Richard Marles declared Australia faces its "most complex and threatening strategic circumstances since the end of World War II" while, on the traditional measure, spending sits at 2.13% of GDP and is forecast to fall to 2.04% by 2027-28. Even the economist raising the feasibility questions isn't arguing for less.

The only people treating alliance standard funding as extremism are the ones writing the headlines.

9:32am 12 June 2026 — The audit is in: "only successfully received and validated donation payments"

The Prime Minister wanted evidence and he's got a seven page audit report. An independent review of the Fire the Liar drive has found the $2.2 million counter includes only successfully received and validated donation payments, with software engineer Daryl Monnink reviewing the website's source code, inspecting the live databases and walking through the end to end donation process before signing off on the total.

Sky News, which obtained the report first, ran it past independent tech experts who backed the findings, with one suggesting the true figure could be higher still, since payment gateways like PayPal and BPAY can delay donations landing by a day or two.

Hanson posted the report on X herself, declaring the money "ridgy didge." That's the timeline in full: Albanese dismissed the haul as "slogans being put forward, not substance," his operatives privately suggested fraud, and within 24 hours the party he accused produced an audit, 28,000 donors at $59 average, and receipts for every one of them. Labor's rival drive remains unaudited, uncounted and unpublished. The demand for proof has been met by the only party in the fight that's offered any.

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6:28pm 11 June 2026 — Hanson opens up on prison, domenstic violence, family and what it cost

Behind the $60 ticket the press pack complained about was the most personal speech of the tour. Pauline Hanson broke down at Thursday's Swan Chamber of Commerce event recounting her 11 weeks in prison in 2003, a conviction overturned on appeal, and the toll it took on her children.

"It was a political witch hunt," she said, telling the room that Peter Beattie changed Queensland law before her trial, lifting the maximum penalty from six months or a fine to seven years, retrospectively, which is how a judge could hand her three years on each charge. She also spoke for the first time at length about domestic violence in her second marriage. "I won't go into detail. We split up in 1987 and from that time I've actually been a single woman."

There was news in the speech too. Hanson confirmed her daughter Lee, who ran for One Nation in 2025 and now works for one of its senators, will stand for the Senate at the next election. "I'm so proud of her. I don't believe in jobs for the boys, and either you can cut it or you can't." Twenty three years after the major parties watched her go to jail on a conviction that didn't survive appeal, the party they thought was finished is leading the primary vote and raising the next generation to run.

4:15pm 11 June 2026 — Sky News: Fire the Liar trucks sent into Albo's electorate

The billboard trucks are out of the depot and into the Prime Minister's backyard. Sky News reports the Fire the Liar mobile billboards are headed for the electorates of Anthony Albanese and Energy Minister Chris Bowen, with Hanson confirming on X they've already arrived in Grayndler, the PM's inner west Sydney seat. "This has been an unprecedented surge in grassroots support from Australians, with the average donation at $59," she posted.

Less than 48 hours ago this campaign was a website chasing $1 million. Now it's a truck reading "Stop Labor. Fire the Liar. Donate Now" parked in the seat of the man who spent Thursday asking "did she, though?" The money he says isn't real is driving past his electorate office.

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2:16pm 11 June 2026 — The Nightly's case against Hanson: your Uber might be slower

The Nightly has found the downside to Pauline Hanson's international student crackdown, warning the plan to make course dropouts go home rather than appeal through a 50,000 case tribunal backlog "could make it harder for everyday Australians to get an Uber" or book a restaurant. The concession arrives in the same sentence: their own higher education expert says it "would ease the rental crisis."

Look at what's actually being defended. A 50,000 deep appeal queue of people whose courses are finished, course hopping and bridging visas used as a backdoor to work rights, a record $11 billion a year in earnings sent offshore, and universities Hanson says are "addicted to foreign student money" while one in ten residents holds a temporary visa and Australians sleep in cars.

Against that, the strongest argument the system's defenders can muster is restaurant staffing and Uber wait times. Hanson's plan doesn't touch a single genuine student in a genuine course. It asks the people gaming the system to go home, and the rental relief their own expert admits would follow lands with the Australians who need it most.

12:48pm 11 June 2026 — Liberal frontbencher floats non-compete deal with One Nation

Shadow government waste minister Tony Pasin has told The Australian the Liberals should work "hand in glove" with One Nation, negotiating which seats get a One Nation candidate and which get a Liberal. A telling offer from a party polling ten points behind: Pasin is proposing to split a pie One Nation is currently on track to take whole.

Opposition Leader Angus Taylor shut it down within hours, saying there's "no plan to carve up seats" and Pasin was speaking his own mind. One Nation hasn't needed to respond. When you're leading the primary vote, the deals come to you.

12:25pm 11 June 2026 — Hanson says Labor's rival drive raised about $20,000

Fronting the press after her Perth business breakfast, Pauline Hanson dismissed the Prime Minister's doubts about the Fire the Liar haul, saying the fundraising is "very legitimate," now sitting at $2, 023,465 every donor gets a receipt, and an independent auditor will go through the donations. "Why would I put it all out?"

Then the counterpunch. "He can't even believe it himself. I heard on the grapevine he's only received about $20,000 for the Labor Party, so he can't imagine One Nation getting the support that we have." If her grapevine is right, Labor's $27 campaign has been outraised roughly a hundred to one, which might explain why there's no counter on their website.

12:25pm 11 June 2026 — Hanson backs Whitten: "No section 44 whatsoever"

Pauline Hanson has stood firmly behind WA senator Tyron Whitten over claims his family company's Snowy Hydro contract puts him in breach of section 44 of the Constitution. "We've got legal advice on it and he's very strong. There's no section 44 whatsoever," she told reporters in Perth, with Whitten himself saying there's absolutely no question about his eligibility.

The party's argument cuts to the legal weak spot in the claims: Snowy Hydro is a public company, not a government department, and whether a contract with a Commonwealth owned corporation even triggers section 44 has never been tested. For now it's media reporting and expert speculation, with no referral, no court, and no finding. Scrutiny that has, conveniently, arrived the same week One Nation topped three national polls.

11:57am 11 June 2026 — MSM discovers tickets cost money at Hanson's Perth business breakfast

The press pack has cried foul after the Swan Chamber of Commerce asked journalists to pay $60 a head to attend its business breakfast with Pauline Hanson on Perth's north eastern fringe, the same ticket price as everyone else in the room. The ABC ran it under "media barred," despite two outlets filming inside and the event being the chamber's to run, as One Nation's WA leader Rod Caddies pointed out at the door.

11:45am 11 June 2026 — Albo in denial as One Nation opens its books

Anthony Albanese is refusing to believe the numbers. Asked about Pauline Hanson smashing him in the fundraising race, the Prime Minister's response was:

"Oh, did she, though? Did she, though? Did she?" before telling reporters "you work it out."

One Nation's answer to the PM's doubts is an independent audit, with James Ashby confirming the party will bring in an independent expert to examine the payment systems behind the website and sign a statutory declaration affirming the figures are accurate. Which raises the obvious question One Nation is now asking: where's Albanese's counter? Labor's $27 campaign against One Nation has no live tally, no running disclosure and no transparency about how much it raised, from the Prime Minister demanding receipts from everyone else.

This is from the party that took $4.3 million from the CFMEU, a figure on the parliamentary record, abolished the ABCC that prosecuted the union's lawbreaking, and then watched the CFMEU's construction division get placed under administration amid corruption and bikie infiltration revelations.

11:45am 11 June 2026 — McKenzie torches PM's double standard

Nationals Senate leader Bridget McKenzie has called out Anthony Albanese's hypocrisy on Sky News after the PM questioned whether One Nation's $1.5 million donation haul is real and suggested the party prove it. Her response on Sky News:

"an own goal" from a Prime Minister who told Australians before the last election he wouldn't touch the tax system, then delivered exactly those changes four weeks ago. Australians are feeling very ripped off, trust is diminishing as a result of his behaviour, with Albanese it's never his fault and he never takes responsibility.''

Then she flipped the transparency demand back on him. The CFMEU has donated $4.3 million to the Labor Party, a figure stated on the parliamentary record in Question Time, and the government that took the money abolished the ABCC, the building watchdog that prosecuted the union's lawbreaking.

When McKenzie asked at Senate estimates how much had flowed to individual Labor ministers and MPs, she got back nothing but the public declaration forms. And when the Coalition put the question directly to the Prime Minister in the chamber, asking what else the CFMEU would get for its donations, the question was ruled out of order before he had to answer it. MacKenzie then said, "Fair game, PM. You want us all to do that? You start."

10:49am 11 June 2026 — Goal lifted again to $2 million as counter passes $1.8 million

One Nation has raised its Fire the Liar target for the second time in two days. The live counter read $1,835,213 on Thursday morning against a new goal of $2 million, barely 48 hours after the site launched at 6.04am Wednesday chasing $1 million.

Ashby says 28,000 people have made a contribution to the campaign and that the party is happy to have the donation website independently audited to verify the donations are real.

The page now offers donation options up to $5,000, with contributions between $2 and $1,500 tax deductible before the 30 June deadline. Albanese's only response so far, delivered in Melbourne, was that he'd "let Pauline Hanson engage in negative activity" while he does "something real for people."

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9:47am 11 June 2026 — Next stop Victoria: Hanson and Joyce headline Moonee Ponds

The national tour rolls into Victoria on Friday night, with Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce headlining An Evening for Victoria, a cocktail fundraiser at Casa Giorgio in Moonee Ponds billed as bringing together business leaders, community figures and supporters seeking a stronger direction for the state.

It follows Wednesday's sold out Sundowner in Midland and lands the campaign in Melbourne's suburbs just as the Fire the Liar counter closes in on its $2 million goal.

11:30pm 10 June 2026 — Ashby takes Fire the Liar to Sky News

One Nation chief of staff James Ashby capped the campaign's first day with a late night Sky News appearance, saying Fire the Liar is designed to "push back" against Labor's ability to lie to Australians without consequence.

If Labor hoped the $27 ads would fly under the radar, the plan has backfired spectacularly. The party that wanted to quietly fundraise against One Nation handed Hanson a national platform instead.

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9:59pm 10 June 2026 — Million dollar milestone leads the evening news

7NEWS ran a package on the fundraiser smashing through its original $1 million target, hours after covering the $800,000 mark earlier in the evening. 10 News+ also picked up the story, on top of the radio coverage rolling across 2GB, 6PR and 9News through the day.

Labor's $27 ads were meant to slow One Nation down. Instead they bought the party wall to wall coverage on every network in the country, free of charge.

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9:49pm 10 June 2026 — Pauline Hanson's Perth visit and airport arrival

Pauline Hanson stepped off a Virgin flight at Perth Airport and was met by a Channel Nine reporter who read her questions off her phone, asking why she didn't fly on Gina's jet and whether she flew cattle class.

Hanson refused, told the reporter to find some credibility, and posted the clip herself, clocking 19,000 views inside 34 minutes. That evening she headlined a sold out Sundowner in Midland while police kept a WA Socialists protest, promoted as endorsed by The Greens, were kept at a distance.

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7:48pm 10 June 2026 — $1 million in a day, goal lifted to $1.5 million

One Nation's Fire the Liar fundraiser blew through its $1 million target inside a day, and the party has lifted the goal to $1.5 million. The live counter read $1,120,430 on Wednesday night, less than 24 hours after the site went live at 6.04am.

The donations page crashed several times under the weight of traffic before coming back online, with donations capped at $1,500 a head. Labor asked its supporters for $27 to stop One Nation. The reply, at $29 a head, is now seven figures deep and still climbing.

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7:29pm 10 June 2026 — Fundraiser nears $1 million on day one

One Nation launched its Fire the Liar fundraising website at 6.04am on Wednesday with a $1 million target. By 6.30pm the party said the tally had hit $946,099, and by nightfall the live counter read $984,435.

The campaign answers Labor's social media ads asking supporters for $27 to stop One Nation's polling momentum. One Nation spoofed the ads and asked for $29 instead, with the money earmarked for billboards, TV and radio in Labor held seats, including Albanese's own electorate of Grayndler.

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