Sean E Britten

NOBODY in Australian media tells it straight like the icon, no bullshit, straight shooting, journalist, writer and playwright, Van Badham ♥️ Pauline Hanson is a 71-year-old woman from Queensland who has lurked around Australian politics for 30 years. One suspects Ms Hanson has stayed in politics because it’s a job that pays her very well for doing very bloody little. As a cross-bench senator without the responsibility of government, all she’s had to do is go out and find 7.4% of formal senate votes cast in Queensland to keep her bum in a red leather chair. Yep. She got only 7.4% of the primary vote last time she faced the polls in 2022. In 2025, her LOOPY One Nation senate pal Malcolm Roberts from Queensland got 5.67% of the vote at the ballot box. Her schtick has never been about taking a comprehensive policy suite for all Australians to the nation. It’s been about finding that minority of people willing to vote for someone who merely shares their American-far-right-flavoured opinions, rather than someone who delivers any tangible outcomes to their community. Because what has Pauline achieved? What are her ACTUAL runs on the board? Pauline has never authored a bill that’s passed into law, or engineered a budget, or overseen a multi-stakeholder policy development process. She’s never negotiated a trade deal, or navigated international diplomatic relationships. This is literally *the business of government*. Go through the THIRTY YEARS of her political statements and speeches and you will start noticing a consistent pattern. Have you observed that when Pauline faces meaningful questions about the details of governance, she either yells her opinions at them, accuses them of attacking her, or she starts to cry? Have a think about when you have ever seen her engage sophisticated discussion of trade relationships, foreign relations, export markets, taxation schedules, disease control, social policy, constitutional law or the justice system. Or the legislative process. All of which is fine… unless you’re *a real federal government* whose decisions affect real Australians, not pretend ones. Australia is a serious country for serious people who know government exists to make their lives easier and their society more prosperous. If I want to watch clowns set everything on fire, I go to the bloody circus, where they do no harm.