The leader of Australia’s ascendant far-right party assails “radical Islam” and the media, and vows to pull the country out of international organizations.
For years a political outsider, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has surged this year to become the country’s most popular party, according to opinion polls.
The senator — long compared to US President Donald Trump or France’s Marine Le Pen — is also Australians’ favorite choice in recent polls to be prime minister at the next election, due to be held in 2028.
Addressing the country’s top political journalists at Canberra’s National Press Club, Hanson condemns them for dismissing her rise as a blip.
“Australians aren’t buying this crap from the political establishment and its media supporters anymore,” she says.
“I don’t answer to the media. I answer to the Australian people.”
Opinion polling does not suggest that One Nation would win a parliamentary majority in the next election but instead could serve a kingmaker role in a coalition of right-wing parties.
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