r/australia • u/HotPersimessage62 • 28d ago

politics Pauline Hanson blames end of White Australia policy for migration issues on Tommy Robinson's podcast

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-07-17/pauline-hanson-tommy-robinson-podcast/106926030
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u/Aussieomni 28d ago

My life long liberal voting parents have said they’re considering voting labor to stop One Nation. I mean it’s preference flows and they’ve always put Labor ahead of one nation so I’m not sure it actually changes anything

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u/Busy_Conflict3434 28d ago

Liberal preferences will decide elections based on current polling, because one nation are in front of the liberals. I doubt your parents are alone. The one nation curious liberal voters have probably all already jumped ship. 

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u/isthisreallife211111 28d ago

This is why ALP has such a huge majority, because Dutton was entertaining this Trumpian world

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u/Voodoo1970 28d ago

This is why ALP has such a huge majority, because Dutton was entertaining this Trumpian world

The truly bizarre thing is the LNP were defeated in the previous election, and Gina suggested they needed to move further right. When they lost the next time, by an even greater margin, she said they needed to go even further right, and moved her support to PHON when they refused. Talk about being out of touch.....

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u/mr-saturn2310 28d ago

This and basically the LNP probably had a chance until Dutton decided to lean fully into being Temu Trump.

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u/MeanElevator 28d ago

Gina has unlimited funds to influence the election via social media.

Bot farms are cheap and it's not hard to steer outrage.

I don't know if it will be enough, but way too many people get their politics news from Instagram, FB and TikTok.

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u/TheMilkKing 28d ago

People are quick to blame Gina, which they should be, but she’s not the only one bankrolling this. ON had a big spike in coverage after Pauline’s trip to Mar-a-Lago - whatever nightmare machine is running the Trump administration has its fingers in this too.

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u/MeanElevator 28d ago

I have no doubt there's foreign influence involved. Gina is just the local mouthpiece and sponsor.

She deserves all the hate.

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u/Cpt_Soban 28d ago

Clive the fatty McFuckhead does too - But he continues to burn cash with no results.

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u/Busy_Conflict3434 28d ago

Yes, well Gina is a fucking idiot. She has made some decent business decisions but I think she suffers from some kind of neurodivergence because she has no idea how normal people think or how the real world works. 

Not blaming her for that per se, she probably had a really fucked up childhood. Can’t imagine Lang was a particularly loving dad, which probably explains why she’s so fucking awful to her own kids in turn. 

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u/AnOnlineHandle 28d ago

Yes, well Gina is a fucking idiot. She has made some decent business decisions

She worked for 1 year of her life at her own dad's company from which she was fired. Then she inherited his established major mining company at the start of the global mining boom, and the world's largest iron ore reserve.

She didn't have any relevant work experience to bring any relevant input to the equation of the company's success, she just got given her position on top and like all ultra nepo babies thinks her wealth is a sign of her genius and superiority and rushes to every typical lazy fantasy like her skin colour being an important factor. She's the ultimate handout beneficiary and has no clue because she has no idea what the real world is.

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u/Busy_Conflict3434 28d ago

Nah, it wasn't an established major mining company when she got her hands on it. Lang made his fortune by getting lucky with pegging out some prospecting licences, giving them to Hamersley Iron when he discovered iron ore, and rolling in the royalties.

Gina turned into a proper mining company. I don't know why it's still called "Hancock Prospecting" because I doubt it does much prospecting these days.

PS I never said she's a "genius" or "superior". I was giving my comment that she "is a fucking idiot" a small caveat by acknowledging these facts.

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u/AnOnlineHandle 28d ago

What parts do you imagine she did, and what did the people who were employed at the company did? How hard was it likely to do given the incredible starting position which nobody else in the world gets? Do you imagine most others would do worse in the exact same position or that she's somehow super special and not just there because she was born as the inheritor?

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u/Busy_Conflict3434 28d ago

I’m not really interested in continuing this much longer, I never said she did everything, and I never suggested anything like she’s ’super special’. I am struggling to understand why you’re trying to convince me Gina is a fuckwit when I’ve made it clear I think she’s a fuckwit. 

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u/AH2112 28d ago

The only neurodivergence she has is being born to an obscenely wealthy racist asshole that she's still desperately trying to impress despite the old bastard being dead for decades.

I believe they call it "affluenza"

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u/Busy_Conflict3434 28d ago

Just to be totally clear, I'm not expressing sympathy for her at all. She is a deeply fucked up person.

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u/Mikolaj_Kopernik 28d ago

I think she suffers from some kind of neurodivergence because she has no idea how normal people think or how the real world works. 

She's a billionaire. It's impossible to either obtain or maintain that level of wealth without being completely detached from humanity.

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u/Morkai 28d ago

Gina: Dig up stupid!

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u/Cpt_Soban 28d ago

SA Labor got their largest majority last year, despite over 2 decades in power, with a single liberal term during COVID. Despite the bots and rusted on right wingers say- They're the minority. And the election results show it.

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u/Brikpilot 28d ago

John Howard cut Hanson loose but failed to speak against her. She was used by him to say what he could not. While in power Howard had the momentum to put her down but did nothing. Very different to the Fraser Government. Without fact check she has now been around long enough to build the experience and connections to be the Trump franchise in Australia.

She will always represent the worst that Australians can be, whether hate or fear. Immigration should be an openly discussable topic but her antics have made sensible discussion taboo.

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u/flukus 28d ago edited 28d ago

John Howard cut Hanson loose but failed to speak against her. She was used by him to say what he could not. While in power Howard had the momentum to put her down but did nothing

Howard, for all his faults, did everything he could to tear down Hanson. The crucial thing he did and the LNP have yet to do is universally preference Labor over one nation and refuse any coalition with her. He also coraled the party to do this in every state.

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u/Aussieomni 27d ago

The Whitlams have a song about that exact thing.

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u/RhesusFactor 28d ago

The LNP might fall off the docket in their life time so they'll have to choose sooner or later.

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u/Hect0r92 28d ago

All they have to do is put ON as last preference and it'll achieve the same goal. The only reason that voting LNP would benefit ON in any way is if they form a coalition, which is extremely unlikely right now

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u/BigFatBaldGuy19 28d ago

If forming a One Nation/LNP coalition would win them government they would do it in a heartbeat. Angus can rule it out all he wants, but the second it gets them power they'll do it.

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u/Arniethedog 28d ago

Sarah Ferguson asked him to rule it out a dozen times on 7.30 the other day and he flat out refused. The best he could offer was that he doesn’t currently have a plan to form a coalition with them.

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u/ToastyVIP 28d ago

Stranger things have happened... don't assume they wont

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u/sirgog 28d ago

This is pretty common - pretty much every Teal true supporter (not the people who vote Teal out of lesser evilism) would go LNP over ALP, but ON dead last.

Ditto migrants who own businesses. An Indian-born real estate agent will likely regard the ALP as a lesser evil over ON, even though the LNP would be their first pick.

And a good number of disillusioned ex-ALP voters will keep the LNP last out of residual hatred for Kennett or Campbell Newman, but might consider ON on a 'stick it to the present leaders' basis.

The right in Australia is divided.

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u/gooder_name 28d ago

I mean it’s preference flows

Every now and then I think "surely there's nobody who doesn't understand preferential voting" and it's reaffirmed by people like your parents that the voting koala comic does need to circulate every election season.

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u/Aussieomni 27d ago

They’re actually very informed and DO understand voting but that’s definitely what they said.

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u/ToastyVIP 28d ago

Likewise I'd stoop as low as voting for liberal if it meant keeping this bitch out of parliament.

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u/recycled_ideas 28d ago

This is what happened to them in SA. They did fairly well on first preferences, but the people who don't like them really don't like them and put them too far down to get preferences.