In a sequel to a stunt targeting Anthony Albanese in his electorate earlier this month, One Nation has parked billboard trucks in front of Parliament House calling on Australians to “Stop Labor. Fire the liar”.
Fronting reporters on Thursday, leader Pauline Hanson said the trucks were paid for through a fundraising campaign launched in response to May’s federal budget.
One Nation has parked billboard trucks outside Parliament House calling on Australians to ‘Stop Labor. Fire the liar’. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman
It’s the minor party’s second stunt of its kind targeting Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman
“People are sick and tired of this government who has not given us accountability,” Senator Hanson said.
“The budget they’ve handed down, it’s going to rake in another $77bn out of the pockets of Australians.
“He’s just destroyed this nation. People have had a gut full. Even the polls are saying they don’t want him anymore.
“They don’t want this toxic, Labor-Greens government.”
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson accuses the Albanese government of lying to Australians with the 2026 federal budget. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman
One Nation has continued to surge in the polls since Angus Taylor’s ascent to opposition leader, with the populist minor party overtaking the Coalition in polls nationwide and last month seizing the longheld Liberal seat of Farrer.
Senator Hanson’s appearance at the National Press Club last week only brightened the spotlight as she ignited a national conversation about Australian identity by calling for “monoculturalism” – a concept she and other members of her party have struggled to define.
Pressed again during her remarks on Thursday, Senator Hanson said it was about Australian pride and respecting military service and the national flag.
One Nation is surging in the polls. Picture: NewsWire / Martin Ollman
“And it’s basically saying we have our culture, we have our identity, we have our Australian larrikinism – that’s all part of it,” she said, adding “there’s many things”.
Pointing to the Socceroos, Senator Hanson noted that many of the players were “from different cultures”.
“But they were in there to play the game for Australia, to represent the Australian flag, the Australian people, the Australian country as one,” she said.
“They’re playing by one set of rules and that’s what monoculturalism is.”
Asked how that was different to multiculturalism, Senator Hanson and her fellow One Nation parliamentarians ridiculed the journalist who posed the question.
