One Nation

Greens senator Larissa Waters issued a statement welcoming the passage of the Respect@Work bill, following her party’s role in negotiating it.

One Nation aims to hold the balance of power in either the Lower House or the Senate, fielding candidates in every electorate.

A One Nation private members’ bill to stop state-based vaccine mandates has been rejected in the senate, amid Coalition MPs crossing the floor.

Not a straightforward repeat of recent election outcomes in the NT ACT and NZ, this election panned out in ways particular to QLD’’s regional diversity, but still with ramifications for outside the state.

It’s difficult to imagine what kind of reasoning was behind this ‘gift’.

In July, Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate wrote to the City of Melbourne threatening to call the police unless the council delivered 114 stubby holders from One Nation leader Pauline Hanson to a locked-down public housing tower.

Among the core features that distinguish conservatism and populism are their different approaches to the rule of law and their conception of “the people”. The law is not something pivotal to populists, and part of their shtick is to at least appear to flaunt it, whereas conservatives bestow reverence upon it.

The third article in a three-part series on the formulation of Australia’s firearms policy; the power of pro-gun interests has the potential to pervert our political conversation the way it has done in the US. In Australia, cool heads must prevail.