Instead of competing with One Nation, the Liberal party under Angus Taylor is echoing One Nation’s divisive, hateful position on immigration and in Farrer is preferencing One Nation – a move that could put a One Nation MP in the House of Representatives for the first time.
Liberals in Farrer should ignore Taylor’s how-to-vote card and put One Nation last.
I remember when Pauline Hansen first started in politics, she was a member of the Liberal Party and ran on their policies.
Her “problem” was she publicly talked about the policies she got in the Liberal Party handbook.
She got in trouble from party bosses for saying outrageous racist things, except she was just talking real Liberal Party policies from the handbook.
The Liberal Party has always been anti-worker , racist and nativist. Always. Even when it’s unspoken. You only have to look at what they do.
Why are people surprised?
Because most data and analysis of that data suggests moving further right will cement the Liberal Party’s place as a minor party that can never form government.
Not necessarily “surprised” but your comment is interesting to me. Pauline has been around for a long time. I was a kid (like under 10) when I just remember her being the butt of a bunch of jokes (please explain) and that she was “bad” (simplistic kid perception).
As an adult, I obviously know a bit more but clearly not enough (I didn’t know she actually started in the liberal party!) so I would suspect a lot of people my age and younger are probably in the same boat. She was a figure that got mocked because she was “bad” (lol obviously this depends on your families political leanings) and then tbh, I don’t remember hearing much about her for quite a while. So for some, at least, it’s kinda like shit that please explain lady is still around and actually has a following and retroactively looking back on how this happened.
I’m not proud of it, by the way, but I clearly need to learn more about our political history to understand where we are currently.
This could add to your understanding: https://stories.theconversation.com/the-making-of-one-nation-pauline-explained/