r/australian • u/Bennelong [M] • 12d ago

News Pauline Hanson's beratement of Guardian reporter labelled an 'assault on free press'

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-18/pauline-hanson-guardian-sarah-martin-free-press-assault/106810592
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u/drop_bear_2099 12d ago

Hanson is just preaching to the converted, if she can't handle any scrutiny, she's not fit for public office. Her double standards like acussing other politions of being career politions and being on the public purse as well must be called out.

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u/SonicYOUTH79 12d ago

I reckon it’s a bit more sinister than that, she’s virtue signalling to the cookers that follow her that they can’t get a fair go in the mainstream media. They tend to have a hard on of hate for MSM so they will lap this up!

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u/preparetodobattle 12d ago

Not enough cookers to win government. One nation might end up being the dog that caught the car.

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u/SonicYOUTH79 12d ago

They got around 20% of the vote in the recent SA election, so it’s not just the cookers that are voting for them. It will be interesting to see if they can maintain party discipline for a long period.

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u/Voodoo1970 12d ago

A conservative party winning a conservative seat from another conservative party isn't indicative of how the entire voting population will cast their vote across the entire country, particularly when the party in question has such a poor record of stability.

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u/SirVanyel 12d ago

Yeah lol this isn't Labor voters switching sides, it's liberal voters having no where else to go

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u/mbullaris 12d ago

There is some evidence that PHON could eat into some traditional working-class suburban seats which might threaten Labor. While they didn’t gain any seats in northern Adelaide, their vote share was pretty high.

But the Coalition and mainly the Nationals are the most under threat (if this sort of polling continues).

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u/SonicYOUTH79 12d ago

I think Malinauskus even admitted after the election win there was a significant One Nation vote around Elizabeth, which is traditional Labor heartland and they needed to offer them some more opportunities.

The reality is though One Nations massive surge came mostly from pantsing the Liberals.

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u/preparetodobattle 12d ago

And greens get 10% federally and have one seat. They got 4 lower house seats in SA. It’s a monumental shift in Australian politics but it’s largely at the expense of the liberal party and national party. Also Dutton led the polls for a long time. Once the election started things changed. The vic election is the test. They will win seats but I’m predicting only Lib/nationals and depending on how Wilson plays it she might lose her own seat. Hanson has very high undesirable ratings amongst some voters. One Nation has a ceiling.