One Nation
WA MP still wants to run for One Nation, but the party might not want him
Upper house MP Ben Dawkins said he would remain a member of One Nation, which he joined in February, and expressed interest in running as one of the party’s lower house candidates.
- by Hamish Hastie
Latest
Compulsory preferential voting to be scrapped if LNP takes power
The minority Palaszczuk government reintroduced compulsory preferential voting in 2016. David Crisafulli has vowed to once again make it optional.
- by Cameron Atfield
Perspective
Pauline Hanson
How Pauline Hanson kicked satire out the back door
The One Nation leader successfully fought against satire aimed at her in the 1990s. Now she’s vowing to fight for her right to satirise others.
- by Cameron Atfield
Latham tweet ‘offensive, crass, vulgar’ but not defamatory, court told
The former NSW One Nation leader is defending a defamation action brought against him by Sydney MP Alex Greenwich over an offensive and graphic tweet.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
Perspective
Government
The fork in Queensland’s path to treaty gets wider all the way to election day
Yet one year ago, the state’s major parties had voted for a shared road ahead for First Nations communities.
- by Matt Dennien
It’s not nice, not polite, but not racist: Hanson’s lawyer defends One Nation leader
Pauline Hanson’s barrister said the One Nation senator was not literally telling Mehreen Faruqi to go home when she told her to “piss off back to Pakistan”.
- by Michaela Whitbourn
Pauline Hanson rails against VROs while welcoming One Nation’s newest WA candidate
Hanson railed against family violence restraining orders as she announced upper house MP Ben Dawkins, who was booted from Labor due to his VRO breaches, would contest the 2025 WA election for One Nation.
- by Hamish Hastie
Exclusive
State Parliament
One Nation looks to recruit Craig Kelly in NSW, sources say
Despite official party denials, speculation is mounting the former Liberal MP will ditch Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party to join One Nation and force out NSW MP Tania Mihailuk.
- by Max Maddison
Perspective
Government
Health, crime and housing: Queensland parliament’s 2023 ‘wrapped’
There’s no Spotify-style graphics here, but crunching the numbers from state MPs last year can still be revealing.
- by Matt Dennien
Exclusive
State Parliament
Five thousand dollars on jigsaw puzzles? How One Nation’s spending caught the electoral commission’s eye
Emails confirm the NSW Electoral Commission is probing potentially illegal spending by Pauline Hanson One Nation’s head office.
- by Max Maddison