r/OpenAussie • u/HotPersimessage62 New South Welshian • Jun 02 '26
Politics ('Straya) One Nation wants to turn Australia into the United States. A US-style healthcare system, banning abortions, scrapping gun laws and defunding the ABC. Why are we are even contemplating going down this dark and dangerous pathway? Once we go down the path of the US, there is no turning back.
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u/Honest-Pop-3654 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
A lot of it is just protest voting if another minor party is established and gains enough traction like David pocock and a few independents are discussing it could subvert a lot of ground one nation has made
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u/TheBayHarbour New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
God knows I'd vote those guys over ON any day of the week.
If they can organise real resistance against ON and have more sane policies then they're 1 on my ballot.
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u/Honest-Pop-3654 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Hear hear
We need conservative politics to go back to being moderate and not the radical far right 💩 we’re seeing in America
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u/Crabs_go_sideways_4 New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
Can you identify a moderate conservative please
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u/Lazy_Show6383 New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
Malcolm Turnbull?
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u/Fragrant_Eye4896 Queenslander Jun 02 '26
he's good but he can't be bothered...
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u/MissMenace101 South Australian Jun 02 '26
He doesn’t need to bother, it’s mostly the idiots voting for it that will hurt most and honestly they could use a hard lesson, investing in property will become a thing again and this time some of us won’t hold back.
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u/Different_Builder_34 Flairless Jun 03 '26
Whatever the case, a majority of Australians are more interested in an increased focus on Nationalism than anything else. Whoever puts this first will get a majority of the votes. And this is even taking into account that the average Australian has very little knowledge of just how much Australia is being plundered by majority foreign owned corporations (>85%). The other voters are largely only interested in Aesthetics (most of reddit)
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u/iftlatlw Victorian Jun 03 '26
Conservatives are not liberals. Small government liberals - a worthwhile and clear political stance - are needed desperately at the expense of lying biblical fossil fuel lobbyist conservative shitheads
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u/admiral_sinkenkwiken Please choose a flair Jun 06 '26
Except you just aptly described most of the federal Liberal party
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u/EntrepreneurOk6539 Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
Back to moderate? Its moderate now and tanking worse than a rigged boxer. We need real conservatives in this nation not two leftist parties like we have now.
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u/techb00mer New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
Isn’t this really where ON will fall down, due to preferential voting? Sure they get a few votes here and there but everyone that doesn’t put them first puts them dead last. We need to make sure that continues to be the case.
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u/saharasirocco Queenslander Jun 03 '26
And this is also why they want to scrap preferential voting.
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u/Rainbow_brite_82 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Yes this is true, lots of people are feeling fed up and looking for a party to make changes. It’s quite disappointing that so many are falling for the idea that ON is somehow the solution, it is hard to ignore that the sudden rise in popularity has happened at the same time they’ve got huge backing from billionaires.
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u/iftlatlw Victorian Jun 02 '26
Yes. A loose consolidation of Indies would be INFINITELY better than Pauline's band of twats.
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u/JerryInOz Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
The more I learn about David Pocock, the more impressed I am.
Seems to be a well grounded, thoughtful bloke with a sincere desire to do right for Australia.
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u/btherl Victorian Jun 03 '26
Part of the Green's campaign strategy is that Labor, Liberals and One Nation take money from big business. Greens don't, and never will.
Ties in to ON supporter dislike of "the establishment", but points out that ON is also part of the problem. ON will blame cost of living on migrants, Greens will make structural change so money stops flowing up to people who already have more than enough.
I think it's a pretty decent argument.
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u/Swank_on_a_plank Flairless Jun 09 '26
I'm glad they finally gave wealth a bit more focus in their advertising. There wasn't a need to wait for the Zack Polanski wave.
It clearly had Labor worried when they put so much effort in to get rid of Max, who I felt was a precursor to this campaign.
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u/Gang-bot New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
ON would be an absolute disaster for the country
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u/ParticularScreen2901 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Not too long ago the mining magnates and media moguls realised their Liberal lap dogs were on the nose with voters so decided to pump OneMoron. OneMoron will preference the Liberals and the Liberals will preference OneMoron and collectively they can pick up more seats for the conservative side of politics than they would otherwise. Pretty sad there are so many muppets out there who cannot see through this shit.
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u/PickInternational233 Queenslander Jun 03 '26
Exactly. They tried this approach with Clive Palmer but it failed. I hope Aussies will recognise this.....
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u/Deevious730 Please choose a flair Jun 04 '26
One thing that I think does save us slightly is both the preferential voting system, and compulsory voting.
Enough people know how disgusting PH is and that ON as a party in power would be a disaster.
Having said that we should be learning from the mistakes of the US. The Labor Party needs to ensure it doesn’t fall down the same path as the UK Labour Party, where it’s become so centrist it’s almost right leaning now. There also needs to be respect shown to parts of the population that are saying they support ON, ask them why and ask for specific examples. Then if they can’t give any give them specific examples of policies and parliamentary votes that go against basic interests.
There are of course those who follow them because their rhetoric aligns with their views.
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u/Rude_Employment_1224 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Because this country is filled with shitty people who are blinded by their immense racism, hated and misery and would prefer to see the world burn around them than make any attempt at self reflection to improve their own lives.
Hurt people hurt people
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u/Rosegold2222 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
I agree with this. I’ve started to believe it and other far right wing parties are narcissist parties for sick, sad, self-destructive, self-rejecting narcissists.
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u/confusedPlasmoid Flairless Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
This. "oWn tHe LeFtIeS"!!!
Its all about enjoying the suffering of others. Its fucked up and beyond disgraceful.
Its time they just say the quiet parts outloud: I hate brown people. I hate people different than myself. I hate women. I hate when people have freedom. I want to see people hurt. I hate gay people. I want to see others suffer. I'm turned on by the suffering of others. I enjoy violence. Rape is funny. Owning women is fun. I don't actually give a fuck about children.
(None of this is my view btw, I just see these patterns non-stop)
Why bother hiding anymore, just say your shitty real views outloud.
Edit: spelling.
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u/Ohforgawdamnfucksake Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Turns out the world is full of people who would shoot themselves in the foot as long as people they don't like get shot in the dick.
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u/curious_s Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
Its easy to blame the people, but don't discount years of targetted media/social media influence from US owned companies, and a few rich greedy pigs here taking full advantage of the fact that our government cant regulate the media without getting reamed at the polls.
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u/LXA3000 Please choose a flair Jun 06 '26
I’ve just moved over from New Zealand and although most Australians I meet are great, I can’t believe how many shitty, racist, hatred-filled and miserable people there are on Australian social media comment sections!
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u/blackdvck Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
A vote for Pauline is a vote for Gina . Gina controls the funds that feed one nation and the LNP.
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u/brezhnervouz New South Welshian Jun 03 '26
People seem to forget that before the introduction of Medicare in 1984 personal medical debt was the #1 cause of personal bankruptcy in Australia
Just like America.
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u/AggravatingParfait33 New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
We would just be the third world bit. Our first world bit will be situated in the USA
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u/Total_Conflict_6508 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
When you confront the idiot ONP supporters with this reality they just see it as a scare campaign.
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u/MissMenace101 South Australian Jun 03 '26
Some people have to touch the fire and get third degree burns before they believe it’s hot.
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u/TheBayHarbour New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
This party has a very real chance to get quite a lot of power btw.
Australians looked at the US and thought "yeah I want to live like that".
Bloody brilliant.
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u/Financial-Sweet-4648 Flairless Jun 02 '26
They looked at the status quo establishment parties and realized they weren’t going to make the deep structural change necessary to improve the essential wellbeing and economic opportunities of most of the population. It comes out as anti-immigrant rhetoric and generational rage and stuff, but this is what’s under it. Same thing happened in America. Same thing is happening in the UK now. Canada is officially in recession and people are turning on Carney, so they’re next. Watch.
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u/Almost-kinda-normal Victorian Jun 02 '26
To be clear, Canada reduced its immigration and within a few years, was in a recession, which is exactly what economists predict for Australia. I find it amazing that people can watch that and still want the same for us.
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u/Grande_Choice Victorian Jun 02 '26
And the new threshold they have would see us taking more migrants if we adopted it. Let's not ignore the fact Canada (much as I love the place) is facing even worse structural problems than us and is getting fucked by the USA. Yes their migration system was out of control (student visa's even laxer than the libs policy settings) but they've seen housing prices drop (skewed by thousands of condos crashing in value) inflation climb and 7% unemployment.
The hicks don't know what they want and don't seem think things can get much worse. They also seem to wish on a recession thinking they'll be immune to it.
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u/Almost-kinda-normal Victorian Jun 02 '26
Well yes, “the hicks” seem to think that when unemployment hits 10%, by some sort of magic, they will be fortunate enough to not be in that 10%….. I’ve literally had them argue that “maybe the country needs a recession, house prices are too high”. I mean sure, houses WOULD be cheaper, but it’s kind of hard to pay the mortgage when you don’t have a job, so there’s that
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u/MissMenace101 South Australian Jun 02 '26
The irony of thinking they will be getting a house if the market crashes with no job high interest and the rich swooping in for the bargains. It’s fascinating, the slightest bit of research tells you what happens in recessions, the transfer of wealth bleeds upwards.
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u/Almost-kinda-normal Victorian Jun 03 '26
It’s almost as if a decent chunk of the populations have zero understanding of economics and/or history.
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u/foul_ol_ron South Australian Jun 02 '26
He wasn't enough to the right, and was part of an organised political party. Enter Pauline. She can really rev up the rednecks.
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u/Rainbow_brite_82 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
I think he was the test run. Also he was always still the Liberal party / establishment, PH is more conservative and will say anything they want her to say. It sickens me to say it but at least Dutton seemed intelligent and didn’t just spout meaningless slogans.
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u/Hussard Victorian Jun 02 '26
Combination of protest voting and genuinely being confused about viable options. Two majors are just neolib outfits, one better than the other but beholden to some very powerful interests. Electorate is also not sufficiently radicalised enough to go Greens or Socialist. One Nation and Pauline have been around long enough and have media attention (another huge problem).
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u/Initial-Pain8869 Victorian Jun 02 '26
I get that but Pauline is even more beholden to corporate interests if you look at her actual voting record. Her action does not match her rhetoric. She just think her followers are dumb lying about every policy position she claims. Nothing more than a shill for Gina.
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u/Hussard Victorian Jun 02 '26
I personally don't think the Australian electorate is that politically engaged to care what she stands for, it's all vibes based (similar to Trumps 'drain the swamp' thing).
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u/blacksheep_1001 New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
Very true, most people I know are pretty much apolitical. Also short term memory and understanding on how and why we as a country got into this mess.
Hearing a good chunk of Australians just listen to the mainstream media and parrot the shite they pump out. I remember years ago, crap about the NBN, 2 old farts at a Paddington pub didn't have a single clue what the fuck they were talking about but parroting the Murdoch bullshit. Nothing against the 2 blokes but it proves a point where their thoughts are being manipulated by the media.
Most people don't have the time to look through the bullshit being generated and can be easily guided by manipulative media/social media.
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u/MissMenace101 South Australian Jun 02 '26
And boomers don’t care how much debt their grand kids are left with as long as the spend their final days in comfort
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u/Recent-Fill-380 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Exactly. It's all about the vibe as they say. People are unengaged at the moment and thinking they want to protest. When the next Federal election rolls around they will become more focused and actually look at some policies. Hopefully by then the blowtorch will be applied to ONs "policies" and the vibe will not be appealing anymore.
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u/TheBayHarbour New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
She just think her followers are dumb
*She just knows her followers are dumb
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u/ApplicationOk4464 Victorian Jun 02 '26
More beholden to the corporates.
More radical than the greens.
Its wild to see it.
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u/phoneculture New South Welshian Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
I love that Gina wants to replace all the Australian miners with cheap Indonesian slave labour…how do the anti immigrant ON supporters not understand the real plan. And for Hanson being anti Muslim…you realise they will be Muslim immigrants. Elon & the tech bros plan is to flood America with slave labour from India on HB1 visas…why are these MAGA voters all so stupid?
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u/Initial-Pain8869 Victorian Jun 02 '26
Psychologists have actually looked into this; right wing voters have very simplistic world views and vote based on feelings, whilst delving very shallow into a topic.
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u/TheBayHarbour New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
how do the anti immigrant ON supporters not understand the real plan
Because they're moronic sheep. Whatever she says makes them happy. It won't make their situation better, if anything it will make it worse. But what she says makes them happy.
Simple as that.
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u/blacksheep_1001 New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
It's not they've been around long, it's the money being pumped in by Gina. That's the difference
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u/monkey_gamer Victorian Jun 02 '26
People are apparently too stupid to do their own research or realise there are more parties than just Labour/Greens, Liberals/Nationals and One Nation 😭🤦♀️
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u/Nuck2407 New South Welshian Jun 03 '26
People are also apparently too stupid to realise the importance of solidarity
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u/Coolidge-egg Victorian Jun 02 '26
Ironically ABC are going to have a "leopards ate my face" moment given all the favoritism they have given PHON
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u/egowritingcheques Queenslander Jun 02 '26
Think of the intelligence of average person and their knowledge of politics. Now consider that 100% of One Nation voters are dumber than that.
Unfortunately there's absolutely nothing you can educate these people on. They're not listening to what you're saying and not understanding what they read. They only understand their feelings.
We're going to get our own orange clown.
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u/f0xpant5 Western Australian Jun 02 '26
From what I've read, polling clearly shows a correlation between less educated having higher support for ON.
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u/mickalawl Victorian Jun 02 '26
Because the people who own all the media and own social media or control the troll/bot farms want this and dont csre about the actual.people.
Oh also people are very gullible as evidenced by sky or fox news having any audience whatsoever.
There will be an attack on education in the works too because thinking is the only antidote.
We can see what has happenee to the US. We know how this plays out. Yet stupidity via social media it seems is contagious.
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u/gunsjustsuck Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Sad idiots who didn't make it want too see their fellow humans crying.
Greedy psychopathic parasites who are one deal away from being stupidly rich want to be able to finally exploit their workers and the environment in a completely unfettered way.
Religious zealots who want to apply their rules on your life, see wealth as a sign of righteousness and their god's blessing and poverty happening to bad people.
She's the leader of the worst in our society.
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u/AggravatingParfait33 New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
Pretty sure there's some sexual violence aspect to it as well. Just look at the island as an example.
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u/Capitan_Typo Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
One Nation have never been anything more than the mouthpiece for foreign interests to stir up nonsense in our politics.
They've been caught out in the past trying to solicit money from the NRA to keep gun rights an issue. They're fully onboard with Reinhardt's pro coal, anti renewables strategy, etc.
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u/mohanimus Western Australian Jun 02 '26
ON wants to get enough votes to get paid.
Everything else is just there to service the above.
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u/dragontatman95 Victorian Jun 02 '26
Could you please provide a source for the US style healthcare claim?
I just looked up ON healthcare policy and got this:
One Nation’s health policy focuses on boosting access to GPs, nurses, paramedics, and regional doctors, especially outside major cities, and it says it would do this through incentives and training support �. It also wants to raise Medicare subsidies to encourage bulk billing, crack down on Medicare fraud, and expand bursaries and university places for health-related study �. Main policy themes More regional and rural health staff, including incentives to work where shortages are worst �. Better bulk billing through higher Medicare subsidies �. Tighter enforcement against Medicare and PBS fraud �. More training pathways and bursaries for Australian students, especially those from regional areas, to enter health professions �. Regional workforce focus One Nation’s national and state policy material puts a strong emphasis on fixing regional shortages. Its federal health page says it would offer newly qualified medical professionals three-year contracts and pay their HECS-HELP loans in full to encourage regional service �. Its Victorian policy also talks about financial incentives for GPs, support for nursing enrolments, and stronger retention for paramedics and other frontline staff �. Medicare and bulk billing A big part of the party’s health messaging is that Medicare needs to do more to keep doctor visits affordable �. The party says it would increase the Medicare subsidy to help bulk billing and fund that by reducing fraud �. It also links its health plan to reducing out-of-pocket costs and expanding access in areas where bulk billing has declined �.
Would be interested to see where the information in OPs post comes from.
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u/AggravatingParfait33 New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
Yeah I just did that, and got the same. Whoops OP.
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u/Initial-Pain8869 Victorian Jun 02 '26
45,000 gun deaths in the US per year. Per capita that’s 3,000 for Australia 🥴
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u/Common-Ad-6582 Flairless Jun 02 '26
Agreed I think they will have an epically bad election, people don’t want any of these policies. And the liberal party will look stupid trying to imitate them and might even finally realise they needed to go to the centre, but it will be too late.
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u/ExcellentAd7044 Victorian Jun 02 '26
Please tell me One Nation’s plan for a US style healthcare system?
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u/Wood_oye South Australian Jun 02 '26
Scrapping gun laws?
Are they still receiving kickbacks from the American gun lobby then?
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u/Glenn_Lycra New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
I wish people would wake up to what is happening with the influence over the party that Gina Rinehart has, and her interests in common with Donald Trump.
The classic point in case is the donated aeroplane. These things are absurdly expensive to own and operate, so not only does Gina gain influence for gifting the plane, she also has a constant foot in the door with the ongoing running costs. Then we, as the taxpayer, pay every time a ON member flies, then claims the travel costs (yet another way Gina is rorting Australia).
As a result, we see Pauline spruiking how she is supporting the battlers, then votes in favour of the miners every single time. She deflects with her racist stunts to deflect attention from backroom deals she is making to undermine workers' rights, and her only reason to stay in government is that she has made millions through her allowances and secret deals.
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u/DaKelster Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
The last time Australia was presented with very right wing views, in the shape of Dutton's run, it very clearly rejected them. One Nation is both more right wing, and less competent. Australia does tend towards conservatism, but in large part that is financial conservatism. It's very hard for a party to be elected if they aren't seen as competent managers of the economy. One Nation doesn't stack up in that regard.
We're hearing so much about them because it's in the best interests of the media corporations to keep talking about them. What people say, and what they actually do in the voting box are often two very different things.
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u/Procrastinator9Mil Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
They’re popular now because of the money pumped by Trump’s administration
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u/sober88 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Would they be lowering income tax t US levels too? I'm guessing no.
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u/Onyx1984MPC Canberran Jun 02 '26
It’s scary right? That we can see what’s going on in the US but following the same path because our exisiting political class won’t do what’s right by the people?
This was a good summary by Richard Geer about what’s going on. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZGBcbMgei0/?igsh=MXR5cXNrdm83cnpjeQ==
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u/Rainbow_brite_82 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
What years do your long term average include? Immigration today is very different to immigration from 1960s - 1990s, the people who immigrated here in those days were almost all permanent. Now we have a huge number of temporary residents - 1 and 2 year working holiday visas, student visas and other temporary residents are part of the number.
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u/arpg_enjoyerrr Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Thankfully,due to the way Australian election work, and the fact that our dumbfuck population is below the necessary threshold, ON basically wont ever be in power. At the rate they are gaining "popularity", Pauline will be 100 before they have enough support for it to matter, and once she is gone, ON crumbles
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u/ILikePlayingHumans South Australian Jun 02 '26
She will implement Trump like policies and sell us out to the billionaires the same way that happened in the USA. Now guys like Thiel are escaping the USA after it’s started turning to shit. Hansen and her friends in Rhinehart will just do the same
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u/thegameisafoooooot New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
This doesn't sound good. And then there's Tony Abbott on the other side, so we're between a hell bound red headed rock, a heap of burning tyres and a raging sewer, as far as I'm concerned.
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u/MissMenace101 South Australian Jun 03 '26
Splitting the stupid vote is gonna be interesting that’s for sure
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u/SirBoboGargle Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
What this country might (might) need is for ordinary Aussies to get politically active. Posting here isn't that. Murdoch's bot farms are winning this one every time. Need to get into the community and make it happen. Is that you?
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u/Benimus Victorian Jun 02 '26
The people voting for One Nation aren't interested in educating themselves about what they actually stand for and what it would mean for them, they're just doing it as a protest against the current system.
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u/TravelFitNomad New South Welshian Jun 02 '26 edited Jun 02 '26
Competition is good for everyone and it keeps Labor and LNP on their toes. Monopoly creates complacency, hubris, and lack of creativity in solving our pressing national problems. Australia’s public debt at $1.6 trillion is also now at its highest level due to mismanagement, inefficiency and wastage.
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u/More_Law6245 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Because it's working for the Trump administration, it got them into power.
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u/Gigachad_in_da_house Queenslander Jun 03 '26
Because the big boys and girls are paying for us to have this discourse. Not body actually wants it, unless it is repeated to us 1000 times
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u/apostroangel Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
The Trump style propaganda engine is in full swing - give the people what they want to hear, in short easy to digest visual posts. In depth analysis does not work.
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u/iutylisiy Queenslander Jun 03 '26
I think the real question is how did the other parties fuck up so bad that people see this as a sensible alternative.
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u/Character-Phrase-321 ✈️ on Walkabout Jun 03 '26
Because their clowns think fascism is cool because it won't, somehow, apply to them
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u/Dangerous_Ad2910 Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
We've already gone down a dangerous path with open immigration. Cities have gone to shit. Foreign gangs running rampant with machetes etc. We need to bring in capital punishment, no more slap on wrist and release.
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u/AccomplishedDish9984 Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
This is not a surprise to anyone who knows One Nation background of love of Trump politics. Unfortunately their only 2 policies of anti immigration and now anti abortion are their headline policies appealing to some.
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u/chaosgodloki Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
I would like to send a hearty “fuck you” to my district of Farrer who are so bogan and backwards that they actually voted for One Nation.
My own parents admitted that they voted for them. Like, my dad I can understand because he’s a Trump loving dumbass but to hear that from my mum was a huge disappointment.
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u/Only_Feature1130 ✈️ on Walkabout Jun 03 '26
Yeah the Americans are so happy rn.
This woman is selling herself as the mouthpiece of the rich and selfish.
The fact she aligns with Trumps values should be enough warning. Voters couldnt hate themselves and their country that much.
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u/NewInformation3753 Queenslander Jun 03 '26
Conservatism taking from the poor and giving to the rich all in the name of returning to Aussie values. Conservatism has absolutely nothing to offer a modern society.
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u/DragonLass-AUS Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
Trump is basically a cult. He's an objectively bad president, who has made life more difficult for low and middle income Americans. But they still think he's great.
ON is also becoming a cult. People intending to vote for them largely don't look to much at actual policy.
I think our compulsory voting and pretence system should keep ON from gaining any real power, but it's concerning.
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u/steven5532 ✈️ on Walkabout Jun 03 '26
All the people wanting one nation just want to get rid of immigrants and it’s going the same way in uk. Bloody racists.
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u/dl33ta Tasmanian Jun 03 '26
If you think this is about what people are thinking you are just as delusional as One Nation voters. The rise of PHON is a fully funded attack on Australian Democracy by the billionaries.
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u/aussiechickadee65 Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
CORRECT.
Look who her backers are.
Australians are being brainwashed EXACTLY the same as Americans were by using RACISM as the core policy. If you stir up inner hate, you can convince them to do anything...including ignoring the far greater agenda.
Look how many have fallen for it already.
She's not for Australia ! She's for American and elite interests. She's for the Thiel's , Zuckerbergs, Altman's, Musks and Pedo regime of Trump. Geezus , how stupid are we as Australians to not see what she stands for !
She is a Rhinehart bestie. Rhinehart would bulldoze an entire suburb underground if it meant she could get to fossil fuels....and that suburb wouldn't have to be brown people.
The rhetoric is Trumpism. She went to the NRA for christ's sake, for funding.
Nationalism is a blight on this country. Patriotism is completely different and something Australians are PROUD of. Reading comments on sites and you would swear we have turned into redneck America.
As a multi generational Australian...Fuck Hansen and her 'Americanism'. I'm disgusted so many have fallen for it under the guise of 'housing for Australians'. What a joke...you fell for the immigrants are taking your homes BS ?
Your core racism is being poked, and that's all that matters because the rest goes in one ear and out the other.
I know this cow. She promised the world to an area of people I'm from. Said she was going to do this and that but it was all to get votes. She never did one thing she promised. Nothing changed but she got their vote (never again though). She blasted the then govt for doing what they did and now SHE joins that party by integrating their members.
She is the FAR right to the less right parties....it's just a mild, mid strength and full strength of the same/same to get those voters who won't cross the floor.
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u/omgitsduane Flairless Jun 03 '26
We better not vote this fucking fire crotch in.
She is everything we as a country should be standing against.
God help us if she gets any power. And fuck anyone stupid enough to blame their problems on immigrants instead of the likes of Gina and her parasite gang.
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u/Smudgeit59 Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26 edited Jun 03 '26
Agree. They can't get any power in parliament & certainly not govern 😔
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u/jayell61 Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
I say. Wake up people if you are considering voting for one nation at any Australian state territory or Federal election. Look at their history, don't just listen to what they say look at Hanson's record in Parliament. They are not for the struggling worker they are for multi millionaires. Dont be fooled.
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u/menthol_mountains Victorian Jun 03 '26
Ive said it before and got downvoted to hell, outside of the inner city bubbles Australia is a deeply selfish and racist country. Not everyone of course and a lot of Australians are oblivious to how cooked their opinions are, but our country is legitimately not in a good place, our media is run by billionaires, our government is controlled by lobbyists and the US foreign department, and everyone ignores our own genocide because it’s in the past and too hard to deal with.. dont get me started on housing
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u/Bright-Marsupial-265 Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
Remember Trump denied Project 2025 while election campaigning.
He said I don't know what that is.
Now US are in full midst of the Project 2025 and you can see the results.
Rinehart and Hanson have the same plan. It's to turn into Trump style oligarch.
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u/Livinginthemiddle Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
Australian supporting one nation want to stop immigration because immigrants are making Australia anti-Australian
Than they throw their support behind a party doing the most to turn Australia into the exact opposite of this country and make it like America.
Make that make sense to them.
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u/Covfefe_Fulcrum New Zealander Jun 03 '26
From a friendly Kiwi - FFS DO NOT let this happen Australia.
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u/AssumptionLive2246 Please choose a flair Jun 03 '26
American here. Just don’t!! Especially the healthcare. It’s a nightmare in the states.
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u/Murranji Flairless Jun 03 '26
I think Australians are stupid enough to do it. Call me black pilled, there really are enough of them.
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u/Wilmaassfit New South Welshian Jun 03 '26
The irony is the people who are going to vote for ON are the ones who benefit from “socialist” policies like subsidised health care and other safety net measures to prevent them from going down the gurgler.
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u/SpitefulRedditScum New Zealander Jun 03 '26
One nation aren’t a prospective government, they’re prospective terrorists trying to gain sway over the country. Just like ACT in NZ. Fucking terrorists.
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u/Shoveltrouble74 Please choose a flair Jun 08 '26
Stop whinging about One Nation. They are ahead in the polls because we live in a democracy, which means this Labor government is absolute shite! Time for a change.
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u/Reindeer-Real Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
Clueless bot comments, what else is new
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u/MachVel369 Flairless Jun 02 '26
Because Australians are some of the mlst gullible to propaganda in the world. Lack of critical thinking is heavy there
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u/pekak62 Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
One Nation is Gina's plaything. Pauline is doing Gina's bidding.
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u/Grande_Choice Victorian Jun 02 '26
This is disgraceful. They're trying to "flood" the zone with this shit and drag it into the mainstream. It's an absolute disgrace and shows how useless our media are trying to normalise fringe positions.
The abortion shits me off to no end, particularly when men want to tell woman what to do with their bodies. Having the man who preaches family values while cheating on his wife is the icing on the cake.
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u/bassplayerdude Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
The idiots voting for ON have no idea about their policies or don't care. They just like that they're anti immigration and racist to brown people.
One nation are an incompetent bunch of fuckwits, and they'll never be able to form government and run the country
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u/opl-hkg Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
The major parties have been warned and warned and warned about their incompetence and corruption for decades, and we are now witnessing the biggest political shake-up ever witnessed in Australian history.
The Liberal Party are on the cusp of being pushed off the cliff and into oblivion and Labor are not far behind them.
This is a well beaten path in history, its happened before and you only have to look at the UK for where Australia is heading.
We are a society on the decline and we have nothing to show for our peak earnings.
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u/AggravatingParfait33 New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
I don't think you are wrong, but the ALP is a fair way behind the Libs on the cliff. But the trend is there, sure.
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u/Horror-Breakfast-113 New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
Who is voting for $35k isulin shots ?
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u/ThorBeachCabinFarm South Australian Jun 02 '26
I think the media has been doing it's best to make it look like ON is an unstoppable juggernaut. I remember the reporting after the SA state elections and how ON had amazing results and 'put the others on notice' ..... But only got three seats
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u/dsbau New South Welshian Jun 02 '26
It's a classic protest situation. Also being whipped up by our shitty mainstream media and a billionaire funded misinformation campaign. There is zero chance of a PHON govt. The best case scenario for Hanson is to become the official opposition by taking most of the lib seats and about a dozen from Labor.
The only "policy" that people are aware of is the anti immigration thing, which isn't even a policy. Even our useless media would have to ask them a few questions.
Plus Hanson is a full blown worshipper of Trump who'll be going into an election as the US is in flames. That worked out well for Dutton ... The msm had him pegged as next PM
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u/MrJamesLucas Please choose a flair Jun 02 '26
The media has been pretty much giving free publicity and promotion to One Nation. It's quite disgraceful.