Angus Taylor warns of ‘eternity of pain’ if One Nation win government in strongest attack yet on Pauline Hanson

Opposition leaders calls Hanson’s party a ‘column of smoke’ that won’t fix Australia’s problems and ‘would only make things worse’

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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jun/13/labor-and-the-coalition-must-force-pauline-hanson-to-please-explain-her-policies-if-they-are-to-win-back-voters-ntwnfb">Angus Taylor has dismissed One Nation as a “column of smoke” and incapable of fixing the country’s problems, predicting Pauline Hanson would spend a trillion dollars without lifting living standards or economic growth.

As Hanson met the far-right British activist Tommy Robinson during a visit to Britain, Taylor made his strongest attack yet on her surging political project, recognition of a haemorrhaging of support from traditional Liberal and National party voters.