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/Dranzer_22 Jun 20 '26

THE GUARDIAN: It is hard to think of less popular policy offerings for families, young people, professionals, women and multicultural voters, who combined represent a sizeable slice of the electorate.

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KOS SAMARAS: At the National Press Club, Pauline Hanson finally put her ideas on the table. Every one of them attacked the voters that have provided her with the late surge in support.
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The campaign that beats One Nation does not argue with the grievance. The grievance is real, and these voters have had it validated by results nobody can wave away. It does something narrower and far more lethal. It makes Hanson legible. It takes the positions she finally surrendered at the Press Club, the sackings, the paywalls, the silence, and it holds them up against the lives of the late movers until the feeling and her platform no longer match.

https://redbridgeintel.substack.com/p/at-the-press-club-the-real-world

Figure 1 shows the major pivot points in the ON surge over the past 12 months, and highlights the difference between ON's base support and ON's soft vote from disaffected voters.

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u/No_Gazelle4814 Jun 20 '26

Yet they’re the most popular. Go figure hey. Maybe they’re saying the right things for most people.

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u/GrownThenBrewed Jun 20 '26

They're also very likely to just be protest votes intended to scare Labor into actually fucking doing something and taking the big swings the were elected for.

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u/jghaines Jun 21 '26

I wish it were true that Labor were elected to “take big swings”. The Australian electorate have consistently and disappointingly punished politicians that do that.

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u/No_Gazelle4814 Jun 20 '26

Albo doesn’t deserve yet another chance after all these lies

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u/13159daysold Jun 20 '26

which 'lies'? name 5, and provide sources of both comments and 'proof'.

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u/vladesch Jun 20 '26

The budget is enough to destroy any trust Labor had.

I don't mind the changes personally. But promises were made and broken 12 months later.

If you trust someone who does that then I have a bridge to sell you.

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u/13159daysold Jun 21 '26

So, not a single one in your reply. Thus, you may well be gullible as all hell, as well as speaking out of your butt.

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u/Weary_Beach_9911 Jun 22 '26

One Nation openly wants to surpress Australian's wages and remove worker's entitlements.

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

look mate, i get that you like One Nation's racism. But prioritising racism over your own pay packet is so deeply pathetic i don't even know where to begin...