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    Pauline Hanson wants to work with Liberals and Nationals to defeat Labor – but rules out official coalition
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    Pauline Hanson wants to work with Liberals and Nationals to defeat Labor – but rules out official coalition

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    4. Dr-Ulzy on

      Yessss. Being more divisive and socially conservative will totally get more labor voters to switch.

      Look how well it worked in SA!

    5. Sporty_Nerd_64 on

      So that they can cannibalise the same rural voters and maybe eke out 30% of the city votes between the three different parties? They don’t have the policies to get city or even a lot of regional support. Between that and the UAP taking more votes and maybe not even preferencing these parties it’ll be a tough struggle for them.

    6. larssputnik on

      How about they work together to better serve the Australian public? I could get behind that.

    7. Kulantan on

      Well, with the numbers how they are, all One Neuron will do is make Labor win harder. There are enough Liberals who won’t preference ON above Labor that it is unlikely ON can take seats from Labor in any big way. ON would have to start peeling off a significant number of Labor voters to change that, which I’ll believe when I see.

      So basically it’s just a disaster for the right of Australian politics because they are trying a playbook from America and Britain without regard for how our elections work.

    8. WontThinkStraight on

      So the People’s Front of the Coalition? Or is it the Coalition People’s Front?

    11. Worldly_Cobbler_1087 on

      So no actual plan to do anything positive for the country just say and do whatever it takes to get in to power and then let the grift and theft begin.

    12. andthegeekshall on

      She just loves the attention and the idea of playing power broker. LNP will be too cowardly to outright reject her but Angus’ own super fragile ego means he doesn’t want to give her any power over him or the Libs.

    13. DefaultProducts on

      Its funny that they say this considering that their voter base is basically former coalition voters who thought coalition isn’t far-right enough for them.

    15. KnowGame on

      If it hadn’t been for Trump getting voted in TWICE, I would take Hanson for the hate filled joke that she is. Now I just feel anxious for our future.

    18. Chewiesbro on

      The thing that made me giggle everytime I saw her speak?

      Not her nails on a chalk board voice, the lifeless eyes, her lack of presence even though she was physically there.

      It was banging in about Federal issues, during a STATE campaign. It didn’t cost votes, but it did show what her level of naïveté really is.

      Oh and calling Trump “Senator.”

    20. vanderaj on

      The Libs really want a partner even less reliable than the Nats. This will work out well for good governance if they cave, which of course, they will.

    22. morts73 on

      It’s a populist movement gaining traction around the world and major parties will need to work out how they want to handle them.

    23. pld89 on

      So those that voted ON to move away from libs… Need to work with the libs to fight Labor?

      Sounds like the conservative vote is robbing Peter to pay Paul and expecting different results.

    24. -Davo on

      How about being good? Wouldn’t that work by default? If PHON had a single honest bone in their spineless bodies they’d have a single decent policy. Or any policy. One, we’re going for one!

    25. NoiceM8_420 on

      Don’t think they quite grasp old Howard voters mostly want nothing to do with ON she’s too far leaning to the right.

    26. capt_dacca on

      I’m sorry but I can’t fathom how these coalitions are allowed. Theyre not popular enough to form government alone but they’re allowed to gang up together? Ridiculous.

    27. Evening-Bird7494 on

      In the, entire time ,she has been in politics what do remember a positive thing she has done?

    28. BESTtaylorINTHEWORLD on

      This is laughable. Just ask her a simple policy question, or a costings question and she turns to water.

      That clip of the tiny mose in the snow threatening the skier is what I picture.

    29. crunchymush on

      That’s like the finalist teams in the Valley Park under-7’s netball league teaming up to take on the ’96 Chicago Bulls.

      They got 5 seats in SA… Combined.

      ON got a big swing but that just meant they went from fuck-all to sightly more than fuck-all while the Libs died in a ditch. I think they’re getting a bit overexcited talking about taking down Labor when you look at the actual result.

    35. knowledgeable_diablo on

      Im sure she’d consider it if she could be the supreme leader and have absolute 100% oversight and authority.

      Shes absolutely power hungry and mad and needs to be kept as far from the levers of power as possible.

    37. JackeryDaniels on

      Pauline Hanson is one of the most inarticulate people I’ve ever met, and yes I unfortunately have met her. How people can find her likeable is beyond me.

      But Australia does seem to have a begrudging tolerance for the perceived (but unimpressive) every person (Joyce, Palaszczuk) of recent times, so what would I know.

    38. Funny-Recipe2953 on

      That, right there, is the problem.

      The goal of government is to make life better for all of us. When your purpose for being in government is to defeat others in that same government, you have absolutely NO business being in government.

    40. Chesterlie on

      Labor increased their majority in last year’s federal election. In SA Labor increased their majority and ON split the Lib vote. Her takeaway from this is that people want Labor out of power? She’s such a genius.

    42. Ok-Volume-3657 on

      I keep having this thought that we’re in our “Obama Era”, y’know?

      I keep imaging a scenario 2 – 5 years from now: The housing/cost living crisis still hasn’t been solved, people are pissed at the government, so One Nation is gonna become the “fuck you” vote to the majors. which will lead us to the “Trump era” that I keep having nightmares about.

    43. philip_laureano on

      She will never win as long as the preference voting system exists, which is why she aims to abolish it.

      Or voting system all but ensures we don’t vote for the extreme right or left. Getting rid of preference voting will all but ensure that she collects all the angry voters and we turn into the mess that is the US today.

    44. TheCatHasmysock on

      One nation wants liberal preferences. That’s how they got their lower house seat in SA. Getting seats legitimises them and gets them more funding. The liberals don’t seem to understand that One Nation is a bigger threat to them than labor is.

    46. Altruistic-Pop-8172 on

      Ah, Cerberus Reinhart. The multi headed dog of the underworld.

      Vote 1 for Hades!

    47. TigersReet on

      It’s a bad joke that woman should not be allowed anywhere near parliament. We have no room for RACIST and oligarchs. In term you understand PISS OFF !

    48. Possible_Rhubarb on

      I find it interesting and mildly offensive that their objective is too “get rid of labour at any cost” with no mention of the policies that they will offer instead.