WA Labor has posted a scratchie card to voters in Secret Harbour featuring Pauline Hanson's face and nine claims about her voting record hidden under silver panels. Across the bottom, a line tells voters to "use the QR code to check our claims".
The code opens a Labor website, onenationvotingrecord.com.au, authorised by WA Labor state secretary Mark Reed. It repeats the claims across dozens of cards and tells readers to "check every source for yourself".
Well, we checked those claims directly against official Senate records, exposing WA Labor in outright lies on three of their core accusations. The card and website claim Hanson voted to cut Sunday penalty rates, voted against cutting student debt by 20%, and voted against additional funding for public schools. In reality, the very pages Labor links to show she voted to protect penalty rates, sat out the student debt vote entirely, and voted in favour of the Gonski 2.0 school funding package.
The web of sources Labor demands voters verify consists of 78 links across 11 websites. Forty four of them, a full 56%, point directly at one site, They Vote For You, an open database that provides zero warranty for its data accuracy. Its own secretary published research nine weeks before the scratchie dropped, warning that political advertising built on that database cannot be verified. Another 26 links route to the ABC and SBS, to Nine mastheads that pocketed $16,126,110 from the Albanese Government's journalism fund, and to Crikey, whose publisher grabbed $737,022 from that exact same fund. One Nation's own website is cited just twice.
One Nation's lawyers have lodged a formal complaint with the WA Electoral Commission over the card, arguing it violates section 187 of the Electoral Act 1907 because the required party authorisation is printed on one side only. While WA Labor state secretary Mark Reed claims the party complies with the rules, the commission has made no finding.
WA One Nation leader Rod Caddies announced the complaint on his own page on Friday afternoon, the day before voters go to the polls. He wrote that Labor faces "an official complaint with the WAEC over potentially deceptive election material" and that "the WAEC's clear guidance on authorising printed campaign material may also have been breached", calling it "another sign of Labor's grubby, dishonest campaigning in Secret Harbour". He signed off: "You can't trust liars; you can't trust Labor."
Labor's own link is headed "voted generally against getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates". She voted Yes to the Protecting Take-Home Pay Bill in March 2017
Absent for the vote that passed it on 31 July 2025, and she voted Yes the day before to cap HECS indexation at 3%
Labor's own source says it can't say anything concrete, and both divisions record her absent
Voted Yes to the Gonski 2.0 school funding bill in June 2017
Labor's own source says it can't say anything concrete, because she was absent every time
Rests on four Senate motions and one amendment, with no bill behind it
Rests on amendments moved by other parties rather than a government bill, and Labor's own free TAFE law produced no vote against her
Access to Trump was a prize in a One Nation fundraiser, though we couldn't verify the $300,000, and every donation named was disclosed
The $16 million is a trade union's own figure, published on its own campaign page against One Nation
Voted No twice on the Three Day Guarantee in February 2025. One Nation's alternative, announced that January, is income splitting worth up to $10,000 a year so a parent can afford to stay home
Malcolm Roberts voted No in December 2022 and Hanson was absent. Roberts told the Senate the bill was rammed through in a single day with "no committee oversight, no public scrutiny, no industry scrutiny", and that its temporary gas price caps had permanent price controls built in
Voted No on the Housing Australia Future Fund and on Help to Buy. One Nation says Help to Buy would have handed the government 30% of an existing home and 40% of a new build, and wants immigration capped and foreign buyers banned instead
One Nation announced the figure itself, targeting the climate department, the NDIS and foreign aid
Labor lied on penalty rates: Senate records prove Hanson voted to protect worker pay
The card reads "Pauline Hanson and One Nation voted to cut Sunday penalty rates". It links to a voting database called They Vote For You, which is run by the OpenAustralia Foundation.
The heading on that exact page reads: "Pauline Hanson voted generally against getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates."
The official record underneath it shows why Labor is wrong. On 30 March 2017, Hanson voted Yes to pass the Fair Work Amendment (Protecting Take Home Pay) Bill 2017, the legislation explicitly drafted to stop penalty rates being cut.
Labor's deceptive card insists she voted to cut penalty rates, yet the very source Labor pushes onto voters records that she voted to keep them.
Labor demands voters check facts, then fabricates Hanson's student debt record
Labor falsely claims Hanson "voted against cutting student debt by 20%". The legislation in question was the Universities Accord (Cutting Student Debt by 20 Per Cent) Bill 2025.
On 31 July 2025, when the Senate voted to pass that bill, Hanson was not even in the chamber. She was recorded as absent for the adoption of the committee report that same morning. Labor's own cited link records both votes as "absent".
The day prior, she voted Yes to Liberal senator Sarah Henderson's amendment to cap HECS indexation at 3%.
While Hanson spoke against the broader policy, One Nation published her Senate speech on 30 July 2025 under the heading "Senator Pauline Hanson Rejects HECS Debt Bill", confirming she would oppose the overall package while supporting the Henderson amendment. Hanson argued against the bill, yet Labor blatantly lied about her voting record when official Senate records prove she never cast a vote against it.
Labor lies to voters on pensions and price gouging despite its own source proving her absent
"One Nation have previously voted to cut or freeze the aged pension" appears on Labor's deceptive scratchie flyer and campaign website.
They Vote For You, the database behind 44 of the 78 links on that website, has a page on Hanson and the age pension. It is explicitly headed: "We can't say anything concrete about how Pauline Hanson voted on increasing the age pension." The reason sits directly underneath: "Pauline Hanson was absent during all divisions for this policy. So, it's impossible to say anything concrete."
Labor does not cite that page. For the pension claim, its website links to a 2016 newspaper article instead.
Two more cards push the false claim that Hanson "voted against making supermarket price gouging illegal" and "sided with Coles and Woolies over WA shoppers". Both link directly to a page headed "We can't say anything concrete about how Pauline Hanson voted on making price gouging illegal". Both divisions listed there record her as absent, on 9 October 2024 and 5 February 2026. She never voted against it. She was not even in the chamber.
Labor's school funding claim exposed as a total lie after Senate records confirm Hanson's Yes vote
"Pauline Hanson and One Nation voted against more funding for public schools" links to a rating built entirely on four Senate motions, two of which Hanson missed. The cited page's own table of most important divisions explicitly reads "no votes listed", and zero actual legislation appears on it.
On 21 and 22 June 2017, Hanson voted Yes on the second reading and Yes on the third reading of the Australian Education Amendment Bill 2017, the landmark school funding package known as Gonski 2.0.
Labor fabricates voting claims using a source that openly admits it cannot know the truth
The database Labor relies on publishes its own internal methodology. A vote matching the policy scores 100%, a vote opposing scores 0%, and an absence automatically scores 50%, which the site explicitly states "effectively says we don't know whether they are for or against this policy".
Every single page on that platform also carries an explicit warning to readers: "Without a magic crystal ball, there's no way to predict with absolute certainty what representatives will do in future."
Labor ignores these warnings, deliberately twisting unknown scoring rules into definitive smears to mislead voters.
| What Labor's card says | What the linked source shows |
|---|---|
| Voted to cut Sunday penalty rates | Source page is headed "voted generally against getting rid of Sunday and public holiday penalty rates". She voted Yes to the Protecting Take-Home Pay Bill on 30 March 2017 |
| Voted against cutting student debt by 20% | Recorded absent for the vote that passed it on 31 July 2025, and absent for the committee report |
| Previously voted to cut or freeze the aged pension | Source page is headed "We can't say anything concrete". Every division listed records her absent |
| Voted against making price gouging illegal | Source page is headed "We can't say anything concrete". Both divisions record her absent |
| Voted against more funding for public schools | Rating built on four Senate motions with no legislation. She voted Yes to Gonski 2.0 in June 2017 |
Volunteers write the policies, and the site gives no warranty for its data
The database Labor weaponises is nothing more than an unverified wiki. Its own help page explicitly warns readers: "You can help improve the accuracy of They Vote For You by finding and classifying more Divisions for the Policies you care about." A random volunteer creates a policy, then subjectively decides which parliamentary votes relate to it and how a supporter of that policy should have voted. The very same page admits: "We give no warranty for the data so let us know if you find any factual inaccuracies."
Its archives start in February 2006 and hold 10,575 total divisions, yet only 6,607 have been manually written up and attached to one of its 368 policies. That leaves nearly 4,000 recorded votes completely ignored and uncounted by the platform.
The Foundation lists five responsible persons with the charities regulator: Benjamin Fairless as secretary, along with directors Donna Benjamin, Katherine Szuminska, Matthew Landauer, and Sae Ra Germaine. Google Australia funded the original construction of They Vote For You in 2013.
Its financial filing for the year to 30 June 2025 discloses total revenue of $210,740 against expenses of $265,225, leaving a deficit of $54,485. It reports zero government revenue, zero full time employees, five part time workers, 1.62 full time equivalent staff, and roughly 20 volunteers.
While the Foundation's public website claims the database is "funded entirely by donations from people who use the services", its official regulatory filings reveal just $33,167 came from donations, while $172,975 was pulled from providing goods or services.
Labor's own source explicitly warned against using its data for deceptive political attacks
Forty four of the 78 links on Labor's attack website, a full 56%, point directly to They Vote For You, a database operated by the OpenAustralia Foundation Limited, a registered charity based at Keswick in South Australia.
On 24 June 2026, the Foundation's own secretary, Ben Fairless, published internal research. He analysed the Hansard record for every single sitting day across both parliamentary chambers from February 2016 to June 2026 and tallied how each motion was decided. Parliament settled 22,008 motions over that decade, yet only 6,475 went to a formal recorded vote. The remaining 15,533 decisions, over 70%, were decided on the voices with zero public record of how any individual parliamentarian voted.
In that same published analysis, Fairless explicitly warned about political advertising constructed on those massive record gaps. "When advertising claimed that teal independents vote with the Greens more than 70 per cent of the time, we found the claim could only ever rest on division data, because the rest of the record does not exist,"he wrote. "For most decisions, there is simply nothing to check a claim against."
Fairless published that explicit warning just nine weeks before WA Labor weaponised that exact flawed data to build its deceptive website and drop its scratchie campaign into Secret Harbour.
The Foundation calls itself strictly non-partisan, then backs the Voice
The OpenAustralia Foundation About page describes the organisation as "an independent, strictly non-partisan charity" and claims: "We have views about transparency and accountability, never about parties."
Yet further down that exact same page, the Foundation drops all pretense of neutrality, explicitly stating: "We support the Uluru Statement from the Heart to achieve justice, recognition and respect for First Nations people, and a referendum to enshrine a First Nations Voice in our Constitution."
Across the eight ordinary voting booths covering this electorate, that Voice referendum was defeated 7,611 votes to 3,757, or 67% to 33%.
Labor relies on state funded media and union propaganda to prop up fake attack campaign
Labor's website carries 78 source links across 11 domains. Fourteen of them point directly to the ABC and SBS, both funded by taxpayers. Ten go to mastheads owned by Nine Entertainment, which pocketed $16,126,110 from the Albanese Government's $67.6 million Journalism Assistance Fund, roughly 22% of every dollar that fund distributed. Two more link to Crikey, whose publisher Private Media grabbed $737,022 from that exact same pool. Those government payouts run until March 2028, and none of the 184 funded newsrooms are required to disclose to readers that they are on the government payroll.
That means 26 of Labor's 78 sources, a full third of them, rely on outlets either funded by taxpayers or directly paid by the government Labor asks Secret Harbour to reelect. Labor also cites the Guardian twice, an outlet barred from applying for that fund as a foreign controlled entity. One Nation's own website is cited just twice in the entire list of 78.
The government's own fund rules dictate what counts as journalism worth funding. The guidelines define core news content as material that reports, investigates, or explains, while explicitly excluding "opinion and editorial pieces", the precise formats where governments face the harshest scrutiny. Whether an outlet qualifies is decided entirely by a public servant titled a Program Delegate, with zero right of appeal. News Corp's Australian mastheads and Sky News were locked out alongside the Guardian because guidelines barred foreign controlled Australian entities. Just four media ownership groups swallowed 53% of the funding pool between them.
Meanwhile, Labor's card claiming One Nation cost WA mineworkers $16 million links straight to a political campaign page on the Mining and Energy Union's own website. The $16 million figure is the union's own unverified calculation, tied to a 2021 vote on casual employment definitions, and published purely as partisan material for its attack campaign against One Nation.
Labor's attacks unmask real voting records while failing to disprove disclosed donations
The card highlighting a $90 billion spending cut points straight to One Nation's own platform, where the headline explicitly states "Pauline Hanson's $90 Billion Spending Cut Plan: What It Means for Australia".
Several other claims directly match the official parliamentary voting record. Hanson voted No to the second reading of the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 and No to the third reading of Help to Buy in November 2024. She voted No twice on the childcare Three Day Guarantee in February 2025, and No to a motion proposing free university and TAFE in October 2023. Malcolm Roberts voted No to the Energy Price Relief Plan Bill in December 2022, which explains why those specific cards name One Nation rather than Hanson. The Senate was recalled to pass that energy bill in a single day, and Roberts told the chamber he read it on his flight after it was finalised at 9.30 the previous night.
Labor's scratchie card also claims Hanson "traded a lunch with Trump for a $300,000 donation". Sydney stockbroker Angus Aitken confirmed he met Trump at Mar-a-Lago in March as part of a One Nation fundraiser, pledging $1.1 million to the party this year. Reporting has not verified any specific $300,000 figure tied to that single meeting, though all named contributions were fully disclosed under electoral transparency laws.
Labor pushes dishonest housing and childcare smears while hiding serious flaws in its own bills
Labor's deceptive cards insist Hanson voted no to building houses and no to childcare relief. Both votes occurred, yet Labor intentionally hides what those flawed bills actually involved.
The Help to Buy scheme forces the Commonwealth to purchase an equity stake in a family's home, taking 30% of an existing property or 40% of a new build in exchange for a smaller deposit and mortgage. Applicants must earn under $90,000 as a single or $120,000 as a couple, blanket thresholds applied nationwide regardless of local property values.
Malcolm Roberts exposed One Nation's core objections in the Senate, details published on the party's platform. He cited Productivity Commission warnings that poorly targeted demand side subsidies directly inflate market prices, noting the bill capped participant numbers precisely because expanding the scheme would drive housing prices even higher. He highlighted that the legislation failed to establish who reaps capital gains when owners make property improvements, how sales losses are divided, or whether taxpayers bear financial liability if property values fall or buyers default.
Labor's Housing Australia Future Fund fails to deliver direct housing expenditure. The $10 billion fund is invested on financial markets by the Future Fund Board of Guardians, releasing up to $500 million annually in investment returns to Housing Australia to pursue a target of 20,000 social and 20,000 affordable homes over five years.
The childcare legislation, the Three Day Guarantee, removed the activity test to grant every eligible family three days or 72 hours per fortnight of taxpayer subsidised care, regardless of work or study commitments. One Nation proposed a direct alternative in January, introducing income splitting for families with dependent children to save households up to $10,000 annually in tax and make it affordable for one parent to stay home to care for their children.
Sloppy Labor propaganda site exposes its own rushed campaign of deceit in Secret Harbour
Labor's live propaganda site still carries, embedded directly in its source code, a developer instruction left behind by whoever built it: "TODO: set the real domain before deploy".
The social sharing tags sitting directly underneath that note still point at a completely different address, doyourownresearch.com.au, rather than the website voters are actually reading. A second developer note explicitly reads "TODO: drop in a clean share creative". The preview image required when a user shares the link to Facebook or WhatsApp returns a 404 error because Labor rushed the site out before making it.
Both web domains sit with the exact same registrar, and both domain records were modified on 15 August 2026, just 14 days before polling day.
Labor breaches parliamentary broadcasting rules to launch unlawful election attacks
Labor's website features 39 uncredited images, including 18 separate photos targeting Hanson. Multiple photos were taken directly inside the Senate chamber. Not a single image carries a creator credit, and Labor completely ignores accessibility standards by failing to provide alt text for vision impaired readers using screen readers.
Parliament restricts how material recorded in the chambers may be used. Its Conditions of Access, at clause 5.12, explicitly state that broadcast material from the chambers "shall be used only for the purposes of fair and accurate reports of proceedings" and strictly prohibits use for "political party advertising or election campaigns".
One Nation takes Labor to Electoral Commission over illegal and deceptive campaign flyers
One Nation's lawyers have lodged a formal complaint with the WA Electoral Commission on behalf of candidate Luke Herdegen, arguing WA Labor's deceptive flyer directly breaches section 187 of the Electoral Act 1907 because the mandatory authorisation is printed on one side only.
Mark Reed claimed WA Labor complies with all regulations, asserting that "if anything, we have over-authorised the document by including the Party name". The website itself carries an authorisation statement at the bottom of the page.
Labor exploits a glaring legal loophole that allows political parties to lie directly to voters. Australian law imposes zero requirement for political advertising to be factual. The Parliamentary Education Office confirms that the two governing statutes, the Broadcasting Services Act 1992 and the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918, "relate to the access, timing, identification and authorisation of political advertising, rather than the content or opinions expressed in each advertisement", confirming that "there is currently no legal requirement for the content of political advertisements to be factually correct". Authorisation remains one of the few strict legal rules that does apply, and it is the requirement One Nation says Labor failed to meet.
Labor has held Secret Harbour since the seat was created, currently sitting on an 11.5% margin. One News published its full investigation on Thursday, previously exposed Labor's false Medicare claims against official Hansard records earlier this month, and has published the complete list of 16 candidates contesting the ballot paper.
One Nation's Secret Harbour candidate Luke Herdegen posted his own video on his page, saying Labor is "running ads on a truck claiming One Nation is against Medicare" and that One Nation "wants to protect Medicare, lift rebates and make sure the money goes to genuine healthcare".
Voting closes at 6pm on Saturday, and we will broadcast live results as the count comes in.
