Labor MPs have been handed new talking points – revealing a growing concern about One Nation

11 June 2026 at 16:00

Labor and its trade union allies have shifted the focus of their rhetorical attacks, targeting Pauline Hanson as if she is the real opposition leader

It was mid-January when Anthony Albanese publicly admitted his “worry” about the rise of One Nation.

The prime minister’s concern was not the political risk to himself or to Labor but rather the threat Pauline Hanson posed to the stability of Australia’s two-party system.

One Nation’s ‘incredibly sloppy’ financial reports reveal more than $1m in missing or worthless assets

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By: Sarah Martin

10 June 2026 at 16:00

Exclusive: Financial returns, obtained by the Guardian, are ‘very poor and unprofessional’ and call into question party’s fitness to govern, expert says

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party reported more than $1m in missing and worthless assets in more than six years of filed financial records, Guardian Australia can reveal.

The financial returns lodged by One Nation with the Office of Fair Trading in Queensland covering 2016 to 2022 have been criticised by a leading expert in financial accounting as “sloppy and unprofessional”.

Tony Abbott backs One Nation preference deal and says Liberals can’t just be a ‘little less woke than Labor’

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By: Dan Jervis-Bardy

9 June 2026 at 06:49

Liberals and Nationals grappling with surging support for Pauline Hanson’s party, which threatens to replace them as Australia’s main conservative party

The new Liberal president, Tony Abbott, has backed preference deals with One Nation as he declared the party wouldn’t win the next election by being “slaves to focus groups” and just a “little less woke than Labor”.

The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, all but confirmed he was open to such deals with Pauline Hanson, declaring the party was prepared to cooperate with “whoever we can to get rid of this rotten Labor government”.

Jacinta Allan says Pauline Hanson ‘chooses to barrack for bullies’ over ‘ditch the witch’ billboard

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By: Benita Kolovos Victorian state correspondent

9 June 2026 at 03:21

Victorian premier says she will always call out ‘misogynist’ views after One Nation leader says ‘if the shoe fits’

Jacinta Allan has dismissed leadership speculation and says she will continue to call out “sexist, misogynist, hateful” commentary directed at her, despite the One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s advice to “suck it up, sweetheart”.

On Sunday, the Victorian premier criticised a truck-mounted billboard, which has been travelling around Melbourne for several weeks, featuring AI-generated images of her wearing a black pointed hat alongside the phrase “ditch the witch”.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson tells rally Ben Roberts-Smith is a person ‘I respect and I admire’

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By: Andrew Messenger

7 June 2026 at 07:57

Hanson compares former soldier’s prosecution for war crimes to her 2003 jailing for electoral fraud, which was later overturned

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The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, told a rally in support of Ben Roberts-Smith that the former soldier accused of war crimes is a person “I respect and I admire”, before its organiser called for “an army of civilians” to support him.

About 100 supporters gathered in Rocks Riverside Park in Seventeen Mile Rocks in southern Brisbane on Sunday.

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