All the One Nation leader had to do to ‘win’ in the eyes of her movement’s base was turn up as the flaming beacon of their discontent

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Labor minister says Australians would lose their jobs and wages would go down if One Nation’s policies became law

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Activist group GetUp claims responsibility for incident, saying ‘we thought the occasion deserved some honesty’

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The Australian federal police is investigating a p

The One Nation leader offered a series of inflammatory statements at the National Press Club that may play well with her supporters but will alarm many others

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Kyle Sandilands has settled his legal dispute with ARN Media with a $12m cash payment over three years,

One Nation leader uses platform to rail against multiculturalism, the media and the climate change ‘hoax’

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One Nation leader denounces high immigration levels, Islam, transgender rights, the ABC and the Guardian in inflammatory address

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Following senator Pauline Hanson’s address at the National Press Club, Guardian Australia senior reporter Sarah Martin asks Hanson about her daughter, Lee Hanson: ‘Taxpayers are paying more than $150,000 a year for your daughter to seemingly campaign f

In the One Nation leader’s first ever appearance at the National Press Club of Australia, Pauline Hanson says Australia must be ‘monocultural’ and calls multiculturalism a ‘failed policy’. She tells the press club the nation has a multiracial society,

Candidates must ‘work their ass off’ to stop One Nation or expect withdrawal of union support, Trades Hall Council secretary says

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Governor Michele Bullock delivers a strong message after the Reserve Bank holds the cash rate at 4.35%, ending a run of three rises

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What’s frustrating about Labor’s budget cuts is that they imply disabled people are to blame for cost blowouts

When our son was 11 I was looking to restore order in his wardrobe. I labelled every drawer and shelf, put his clean and folded

Former Howard-era adviser says Pauline Hanson’s party is channelling Donald Trump’s health agenda

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Gallagher on One Nation: ‘Opinion polls will come and go’

Katy Gallagher was also asked about t

We must remember he’s only 20 years old. It’s unfair to place the fate of multiculturalism on his shoulders

The last time I wrote about refugees, I kept getting a certain type of comment. That people like my parents were the right kind of refugee

All the flimflam and palaver amount to nothing in the face of domestic realities. Perhaps the UK’s John Healey has done us all a good turn

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Exclusive: Aboriginal Australians and migrants the targets of John Drew, who party claims ‘has never been a One Nation party official in any capacity’

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The prime minister and foreign minister have issued a lengthier statement welcoming the agreement made by the US and Iran, and called for

Liberal MP says Australia risks sovereignty and strategic independence being ‘constrained by the AI superpowers reshaping the global order’

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Liberal MP Andrew Hast

Another expert says drone technology may have prevented shark attack at Coogee beach on Saturday

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Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy discuss One Nation’s successful fundraising drive which raised nearly $3m this week. They look at how the major parties are handling the rise of the rightwing party and where they agree th

Australians in their 40s and 50s are struggling with low wages growth, rising inequality and falling rates of home ownership – and many are feeling left behind

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Commentators left, right and centre are trying to grasp the bouncing ping-pong ball that is One Nation which has been hiding in plain sight

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When Donald Trump desc

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The Senate will deliver its report from the NDIS inquiry on Tuesday. Butler doesn’t directly answer a question about whether or not he is

Opposition and Greens could team up to extend inquiry into changes but health minister ‘utterly convinced’ federal government’s plan is right

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Tasmanian senator says he feels he is ‘letting down the team’ but needs to prioritise family

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It is unlikely that many voters are flocking to Pauline Hanson for her scientific insights – but that is where they are lining up, regardless

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A truck-mounted billboard featuring AI-generated images of Victoria’s premier, Jacinta Allan, which has been travelling around Melbourne for several weeks now, has attracted a lot of scrutiny. It shows Allan wearing a black pointed hat alongside the ph

Pauline Hanson claimed fundraiser was moved from original location due to ‘too many bookings’, not because of expected protests

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Protesters have clashed with Pauli

Tony Barry and Barrie Cassidy discuss One Nation’s successful fundraising drive which raised nearly $3m this week. They look at how the major parties are handling the rise of the rightwing party and where they agree th

Exclusive: Economists say falling house prices are largely in the more expensive parts of Sydney and Melbourne’s markets and are less likely to affect first-time property owners

Fears that first-time buyers with tiny deposits wil

Report by Labor-led joint human rights committee says cuts to the $50bn scheme could limit support for those in need

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Sweeping changes to the NDIS appear “retrogre

Her strongest supporters don’t care that her positions often don’t make sense, but first-time One Nation voters could swing back if the party faced more scrutiny

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Teens who use social media two hours daily at higher risk of depressive symptoms, study finds

Teenagers who spend h

Event to go ahead at an undisclosed location after Moonee Ponds restaurant cancelled at the eleventh hour

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Bucking heated politics on immigration, Labor is making a trial program that resettles refugees across Australia permanent

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Matt Canavan says he supports Hanson’s anti-Labor ‘fire the liar’ fundraising campaign but will not sign up to a joint election strategy

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Pauline Hanson’s fundraising drive gets front-page coverage in Sydney tabloid. Plus: The Hollywood Reporter scoop that wasn’t

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One Nation’s predicted primary vote is ahead of both the Labor government and Coalition opposition for the first time, marking a new level of popularity for a party that has sat at the fringe of Australian politics for decades and sparking a flurry of

The Albanese government is proposing major changes to the national disability insurance scheme – to cut spending and reduce the number of participants receiving care. Advocates and Australians with disabilities have heavily criticised the proposals dur

Labor and its trade union allies have shifted the focus of their rhetorical attacks, targeting Pauline Hanson as if she is the real opposition leader

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CitizenGo is hitching its wagon to Joanna Howe’s crusade, and the former Nationals MP George Christensen is on board

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Wong not ‘interested’ in One Nation’s fundraising

Wong says she isn’t concerned about One Nation’s fundraising effo

Coalition also criticises swift timeline for proposed NDIS changes with Melissa McIntosh saying ‘we cannot forget that there are human lives at the other end’

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Former Labor foreign affairs minister says belief US would defend Australia in event of an existential attack is a ‘ludicrous delusion’

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Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic wave

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On paper, the shadow treasurer is thoughtful. In parliament, performative outrage overwhelms his thinking

Tim Wilson has thrown himself into fighting the reduction of the capital gains tax discount in Labor’s budget, as well as the abolition of n

South Australian Liberal Tony Pasin says parties should ‘work hand-in-glove’ to defeat Labor at the next election

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Exclusive: Financial returns, obtained by the Guardian, are ‘very poor and unprofessional’ and call into question party’s fitness to govern, expert says

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But Australian government will expand offences covered by rules to include promotion of communal violence and attacks on defence system

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