One Nation's "Stop Labor. Fire the Liar" campaign live: Hanson takes the fight to Albanese
- Liberal frontbencher Tony Pasin floated a non-compete deal with One Nation before Angus Taylor publicly killed it, a sign of which party needs the other on current polling.
- Hanson called the fundraiser "very legitimate," confirmed an independent audit, and claimed Labor's rival $27 drive has raised only about $20,000, a figure Labor hasn't disclosed or denied.
- Nationals Senate leader Bridget McKenzie called out Albanese's hypocrisy after he questioned One Nation's donation figures, pointing to the CFMEU's $4.3 million in donations to Labor.
12:48am 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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.