"If one nation is the answer to your question, then you’re asking the wrong question! "

#Australia #PHON

Well, what do you know… more oxygen for the #Racist party.

(Reported by Dan Jervis-Bardy)
“One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is scheduled to appear at the National Press Club, providing her a nationally televised platform to sell her plan for the country. Hanson has been booked to deliver a “leader’s address” to the Canberra-based institution on 17 June, according to the club’s website.

The speech will mark another example of the mainstreaming of Hanson, whose rightwing populist party is the most popular in the country according to some opinion polls. Hanson on Monday fielded media questions about the possibility of becoming prime minister despite One Nation holding just two of the 150 seats in the lower house. “Do I have the ability? You bet I have,” she told 2GB on Monday.” (Source: The Guardian - online)

I might just watch it… I’m in need of a laugh lately…
#AusPol #PHON #SenPaulineHansonMP #PleaseExplain

“The Labor Party has, for the first time in its history, become the natural home of educated youth and it has done so while losing its grip on the outer-suburban and regional working-class voters who built it.”
I pulled this quote from #KosSamaras ‘article in #JohnMenadue ‘s Pearls & Irritations ( https://johnmenadue.com/post/2026/05/three-australias-new-polling-shows-deepening-divide/)

It’s an interesting piece. It denies #Labor ‘s voting-base roots is a bulwark against #PHON penetration of the Lower House because Labor has vacated it and in so doing has left a vacuum of resentment, anger and protest grounded in the 90s which PHON will harvest in future elections. Labor’s support is growing in the the ‘class’ that the #LNP have left to fend for themselves as the #Noalition lurches further and further to right-wing populism bleeding support all the while.

Kos ends with sobering words:”
For three decades after 1945, Australia experienced something genuinely exceptional: shared, broad-based prosperity. That period is over. We are returning, more or less, to the historical norm. The politics of the next decade will be the politics of who gets blamed for it, and which bloc holds together long enough to find an answer, or not.”

I don’t know about you, but I’m not rejoicing at that pessimistic prognostic.
#AusPol #ChangingPolitics #PostWarEconomics #NeoLiberalism #FinacialMarketsDeregulation #Antifa #NoMoreBillionaires #RedistributiuonOfWealthNow

Thank you #TheGuardian for calling out the disgusting and Trumpian behaviour of #PHON #Hanson and Ashby.
Not actually surprised because this reflects their actual ignorant vulgar personalities. However the crude insults of Trump directed at journalists are unacceptable here.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2026/may/26/one-nations-attacks-on-the-media-are-straight-from-the-donald-trump-playbook-we-must-call-them-out?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I had an early dinner tonight and thought I’d use that down time to watch #ABC #Insider because I knew #DavidPocock was on the bill. There’s not much that I’ve drawn from watching it (hopefully not a bellyache from eating too fast).

Pocock said all the right things despite #Speersie’s efforts to repeatedly ‘corner’ him by asking the same question using various words, not listening to the answers, and giving #PHON oxygen (the leopard hasn’t changed his spots).

The panel grudgingly swatted away most of the msm and social media anti-tax propaganda without really explaining it for the audience (the panel could very have been reluctant to give the govt brownie points if they explained how the tax system actually works). Jeezzz, there’s a lot of dumbfucks out there…

Speersie was speersie;
The panel was the beige kind of panel Insiders normally has on;
The set has not changed (forgot how horrid the colours were, nearly put me off my dinner);
LIttle useful information was disseminated, at least not that I heard;
And I stopped watching when Pocock was done with because… well, becuase it’s #FoxSiders of course.

#AusPol

RE: https://aus.social/@eddyjokovich/116593150729197308

There is a lot of legislative work to be done if govt(s) are going to do something about putting Australia on better footings to cope with what is coming down the line. And #Madhats (#LNP #Nats #PHON) aren’t ever going to do anything about it. Our meak and timid #Labor govt(s) are too caught up in the #Newscycle to roll up their collective sleeves and get to work (time is running out, that much is obvious) and that leaves a #CluelessElectorate , too #UnderThePump to see their way clear to send the only electoral message that ought to matter to all Australians, that is to vote for the #Greens next time around. Because only the Greens will act out of #Ideology (the good and prgressive kind for the greater good) and not #ElectoralSelfInterests (a nice way of saying #Corruption and #StateTheft #NeoLiberalism )

#AusPol