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.
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/