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Pauline Hanson's One Nation
Jan. 24th, 2021 10:53 pmPauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON)
https://onenationwa.org.au/
Oh no it’s time for the far right whackjobs that actually have a chance at parliamentary seats.
One Nation was formed by Pauline Hanson in 1997. Do I really need to cover the history of this? Hanson’s reinvigoration of the party in 2016 was a dark spot for everyone. Half their wikipedia page is just a list of scandals. There is a long-running study that shows that the likelihood of a One Nation politician staying a member of the party for a full term AND getting re-elected is almost nil.
At present the WA Legislative Council has 2 PHON members. They started with three, all elected for the first time in 2017, but Charles Smith resigned in 2019, became an independent, then joined the Western Australian Party in May 2020. For anyone who tracks PHON politicians, the trajectory of Charles Smith is more common than the other two!
( Party Analysis )
Any Predictions?
We did not make any predictions around One Nation. It appears, however, that they are showing slight antivax tendencies. I didn’t see anything about borders (though I suspect One Nation is mostly fine with them being shut – they’re a party of Close The Border/Send Them Back after all).
Is this party trying to kill me?
None of One Nation’s outlined policies are out to kill anyone, aside from that antivax dogwhistle.
Is this party trying to harm me?
I really don’t like the implications that they are just fine with removing Safe Schools and their likely-antivax position. I’d say both of these policies are harmful to the community, particularly queer kids, non-white people and everyone likely to affected by climate change.
Conclusion:
Look it’s One Nation. The bigger concern is they won three seats last time around and have every chance of doing it again. Most of the big horrors of their platform are nicely hidden in dogwhistle and they just want more accountability and common sense in politics, right? Right!
Some of their health and education policies could get bipartisan support, but the others are horrible.
I wouldn’t vote for this mob, but they’re still marginally better than the outright conspiracy theory lunatics of the right who want guns. I’d still make sure they were low down my ballot, below pretty much every other party likely to get a seat, to try and prevent them from getting in.
https://onenationwa.org.au/
Oh no it’s time for the far right whackjobs that actually have a chance at parliamentary seats.
One Nation was formed by Pauline Hanson in 1997. Do I really need to cover the history of this? Hanson’s reinvigoration of the party in 2016 was a dark spot for everyone. Half their wikipedia page is just a list of scandals. There is a long-running study that shows that the likelihood of a One Nation politician staying a member of the party for a full term AND getting re-elected is almost nil.
At present the WA Legislative Council has 2 PHON members. They started with three, all elected for the first time in 2017, but Charles Smith resigned in 2019, became an independent, then joined the Western Australian Party in May 2020. For anyone who tracks PHON politicians, the trajectory of Charles Smith is more common than the other two!
( Party Analysis )
Any Predictions?
We did not make any predictions around One Nation. It appears, however, that they are showing slight antivax tendencies. I didn’t see anything about borders (though I suspect One Nation is mostly fine with them being shut – they’re a party of Close The Border/Send Them Back after all).
Is this party trying to kill me?
None of One Nation’s outlined policies are out to kill anyone, aside from that antivax dogwhistle.
Is this party trying to harm me?
I really don’t like the implications that they are just fine with removing Safe Schools and their likely-antivax position. I’d say both of these policies are harmful to the community, particularly queer kids, non-white people and everyone likely to affected by climate change.
Conclusion:
Look it’s One Nation. The bigger concern is they won three seats last time around and have every chance of doing it again. Most of the big horrors of their platform are nicely hidden in dogwhistle and they just want more accountability and common sense in politics, right? Right!
Some of their health and education policies could get bipartisan support, but the others are horrible.
I wouldn’t vote for this mob, but they’re still marginally better than the outright conspiracy theory lunatics of the right who want guns. I’d still make sure they were low down my ballot, below pretty much every other party likely to get a seat, to try and prevent them from getting in.
