'Economically disastrous': Hanson's super policy panned Allowing workers to divert a quarter of their super income to rent and mortgage payments won't pump up inflation, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson insists. AAP · Sep 6
Coalition denies flag-burning ban an attempt to undercut One Nation as Labor says push has ‘element of desperation’ Policy unveiled on Sunday would create new criminal offences for flag burning and defacing historical monuments, and legislate 26 January as Australia Day The Guardian - AU · Sep 6
Labor plans crackdown on social media algorithms as Taylor says he’s ‘deeply sceptical’ Anika Wells expected to release legislation creating a digital duty of care in parliament this week, but Coalition argues it is ‘attempt to censor the internet’ The Guardian - AU · Sep 6
Mike Newman's pitch to win over coal country and the state Mike Newman believes small government and coal-fired power can unlock the Hunter's future prosperity. Newcastle Herald · Sep 5
View from The Hill: ‘Howard’s battlers’ and ‘Tony’s tradies’ are now responding to the drum beat of One Nation He is in his late fifties and lives outside a capital city. He owns his home — most often outright — and he still gets up and goes to work. He did a trade or a TAFE diploma rather than a degree, speaks only English at home, and calls his… The Conversation · Sep 4
Comedian’s offensive mock Welcome to Country at far-right rally gets rerun in the Daily Mail Daily Mail’s report on March for Australia rally quotes – in full – and embeds video of Lisa Jane Spencer’s disrespectful skit. Plus: AI takes us back to 1956 The Guardian - AU · Sep 4
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Sarah Hanson-Young on why progressives need to ‘take on’ One Nation First elected to parliament in 2007 at the age of 25, Sarah Hanson-Young is now the Greens’ longest serving federal politician. The Conversation · Sep 3
Thrown shoes, sabotaged launches and exposed affairs: the drama of Australian political publishing The most striking example of performance politics in Joshua Black’s entertaining book comes when an audience member at a 2010 taping of the now-defunct ABC show Q&A throws a shoe at former prime minister John Howard. (It echoed a famous moment two years earlier, when an Iraqi journalist threw his… The Conversation · Sep 1
Inside the regional voter revolt driving the One Nation surge Voters deliver warning to government. The Canberra Times · Sep 1
Guardian Essential poll: One Nation’s popularity slips as Albanese records lowest approval as prime minister Coalition regains ground as support for Labor and Pauline Hanson’s party falls amid ‘messy immigration debate’ The Guardian - AU · Sep 1
View from The Hill: Did Albanese’s language against One Nation ‘cross a line’ or is Pauline Hanson just playing victim politics? The major political parties are struggling to find ways to effectively counter Pauline Hanson and One Nation. The Conversation · Sep 1
Albanese has everything to lose engaging in a fight with Hanson, but he may be drawn in anyway The PM wants to combat One Nation through core Labor values such as education and health, even as his popularity takes a beating The Guardian - AU · Sep 1
Afternoon Update: Australian missing in Nepal-Tibet floods found alive; Ray Hadley takes stand at Alan Jones trial; and the Kākāpō bounces back Foreign minister ‘incredibly thankful’ another Australian has been found and says they have spoken with their family The Guardian - AU · Sep 1
Duelling train plans as One Nation hosts pre-poll lunch The Victorian coalition has promised a short-term suburban train solution for commuters in Melbourne's booming west, with Labor rubbishing it as a "side quest". AAP · Sep 1
The Guardian - AU · Aug 31 Fugitive property developer won’t give evidence this week to Icac – as it happened This blog is now closed
The Guardian - AU · Aug 31 Afternoon Update: One Nation’s nuclear plans; on the ground in Nepal; and $100 chicken nuggets Pauline Hanson says two nuclear reactors should be built on the east coast as part of a push for ‘diversity’ of power supply
The Guardian - AU · Aug 31 Pauline Hanson calls for two nuclear plants on east coast and insists policy is nothing like Dutton’s failed plan One Nation leader also calls for taxpayer funding to keep coal-fired Loy Yang power station operating as part of ‘diversity’ of power
The Conversation · Aug 30 Total support for right-wing parties rises in Newspoll before Secret Harbour byelection Both the Newspoll and Redbridge polls were entirely conducted before Saturday’s Western Australian Secret Harbour byelection, in which One Nation had a big win over Labor. In Newspoll, the total vote for One Nation and the Coalition was up two points to 49%.
The Conversation · Aug 30 View from The Hill: Fresh from its WA triumph, how will One Nation do in the eastern trenches? Neither Labor nor the Liberals needed the bruising Secret Harbour byelection to tell them One Nation had become a major player. But Saturday’s result in the Western Australian state seat will raise a couple of notches in the major parties’ perception of the political threat level it represents.
The Guardian - AU · Aug 30 One Nation’s Secret Harbour byelection win shows Labor is at a loss when it comes to calming angry voters Even after a week in which Pauline Hanson and One Nation candidates tripped over themselves trying to explain key policies, voters still backed the party
AAP · Aug 30 Labor hears battle cry against "far right populists" Anthony Albanese has warned of the threats of One Nation in a critical speech to Labor faithful in Queensland, with Pauline Hanson's party on the rise.
The Guardian - AU · Aug 30 One Nation claims victory in Secret Harbour byelection in Western Australia One Nation candidate Luke Herdegen secures 57% of the vote after preferences as Barnaby Joyce says ‘politics has changed’
AAP · Aug 29 Premier will heed voters after One Nation breakthrough Labor has conceded after One Nation won a previously safe Labor seat in a WA by-election that could have ramifications across the country.
The Guardian - AU · Aug 28 Pauline Hanson courts wealthy donors with $2,000 ‘exclusive’ Melbourne lunch, but where are the receipts? One Nation hopes to raise $36,000 from the lunch but the state party has disclosed just one donation this financial year
Newcastle Herald · Aug 28 Students see red: protest breaks out at Pauline Hanson's Toronto fundraiser 'Hanson is not wanted here': Hunter high schoolers have rallied against One Nation's 'divisive rhetoric'.