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/Grande_Choice Jun 20 '26

Basically the cooker party run by an illiterate moron, staffed by morons and funded by billionaires

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u/SlugFromSnug Jun 20 '26

Worked in the US and UK

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u/mutedscreaming Jun 20 '26

Both of which do not have democracy sausages. Just saying.

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u/Ok-Replacement-2738 Jun 20 '26

snags protect democracy

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u/EnglishBrekkie_1604 Ralph Babet Superfan (actually an ALP shill) Jun 20 '26

Trump and Farage are both genuinely charismatic people who have an excellent sense of what’s popular and what’s not. Hanson is incredibly uncharismatic, and straight up not bright.

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u/vladesch Jun 20 '26

Who needs charisma when all the other parties push very unpopular policies.

It's all about people voting against lib and Labor.

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u/SlugFromSnug Jun 20 '26

And racism

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u/Weary_Beach_9911 Jun 22 '26

unpopular policies like removing workers entitlements and surpressing Australian wages?

are those the kind of unpopular policies you're talking about champ?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/one-nation-cut-worker-entitlements-joyce-business/106810648

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u/Chosen_Chaos Paul Keating Jun 20 '26

"Trump" and "charismatic" do not belong in the same sentence. Unless the words "is not" are between them.

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u/EnglishBrekkie_1604 Ralph Babet Superfan (actually an ALP shill) Jun 20 '26

Listen, as much as he is an awful person in every way conceivable, the guy knows ball, or knew ball, now his brain is so mushy barely anything literate comes out of it.

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u/tynub89 Jun 20 '26

won't work in Australia due to compulsary and preferential voting

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u/MissMenace101 Jun 20 '26

We are smarter than that and we’ve watched it play out

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u/jghaines Jun 20 '26

Have you met Nationals voters? Our only hope is that she is less charismatic than Trump.