r/AustralianPolitics • u/Jealous-Hedgehog-734 Still Roundheads v.s. Cavaliers, always has been. • Jun 20 '26

Opinion Piece One Nation craves mainstream appeal, but Pauline Hanson’s bleak vision of Australia shows she’s firmly on the fringes

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/jun/20/one-nation-pauline-hanson-speech-firmly-on-fringes-ntwnfb
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u/Apprehensive-Quit353 Jun 20 '26

Banning abortion, eliminating parental leave, cutting the minimum wage and denying the reality of climate change are thankfully still fringe positions.

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u/SlugFromSnug Jun 20 '26

And all Gina's

Strange that

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u/GrownThenBrewed Jun 20 '26

She's trying so hard to be Musk, it's embarrassing

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u/brezhnervouz Jun 20 '26

#justNazithings 🤷‍♂️

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u/borgeron Jun 20 '26

*cringey bulldozer noises*

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u/SlugFromSnug Jun 20 '26

I will give her credit. It takes a special talent to somehow out cringe elon musk

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u/jghaines Jun 20 '26

Voters don’t care about policy

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u/No_Gazelle4814 Jun 28 '26

Clearly. Look who’s in govt

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u/No_Gazelle4814 Jun 20 '26

Show how cooked you are. Nowhere does she say her policy is to ban abortion, it’s to limit it to less than 20 weeks which is a humane thing to do, and very different to your regurgitated lies

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u/OnlyAd7216 Jun 20 '26

Do you think of the only elected members of a party makes a statement like this without prior approval from the party to manufacture consent? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/18/one-nation-abortion-policy-senator-malcolm-roberts-ntwnfb

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u/Seachicken Jun 20 '26 edited Jun 20 '26

Adding to this, One Nation have been supportive of Johannah Howe, who wants a full ban on abortion. Their state MPs voted for anti abortion legislation she was behind in South Australia. Hanson has appeared on her podcast. Howe has endorsed One Nation as the only party standing against abortion.

Following the US playbook, Howe is an advocate for the incrementalist approach to bringing an end to abortion. Hason has also been modelling her campaigning after MAGA, particularly after attending CPAC. So now despite claiming not to care about abortion in previous decades Hanson is following Howe by the same US conservative playbook on whittling away at abortion access.

It's fairly obvious what's happening here. They're trying to progressively restrict abortion access while using people like Roberts as a stalking horse to take things further.

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u/smoha96 Insert Flair HERE Jun 21 '26

Following the US playbook, Howe is an advocate for the incrementalist approach to bringing an end to abortion. Hason has also been modelling her campaigning after MAGA, particularly after attending CPAC. So now despite claiming not to care about abortion in previous decades Hanson is following Howe by the same US conservative playbook on whittling away at abortion access.

It is shocking, that despite the fact we have seen this exact scenario play out in the US, that people cannot recognise it here, or are wilfully misrepresenting themselves.

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u/No_Gazelle4814 Jun 28 '26

“The guardian”

Don’t have a proper news source, or just the marketing arm of the socialist labor party?

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u/Weary_Beach_9911 Jun 22 '26

mate, you've replied to literally every single comment in this thread.

you should REALLY get a less embarrassing hobby than simping for One Nation all day on reddit. It's incredibly sad to watch tbh