By Jo Nova
One Nation is the centre right party the Liberals forgot to be
The commentariat say that Pauline is a lightning rod for believers, but “she doesn’t have any solutions”. However in this day of Big-octopus-government, the best solution is when the government does nothing. Yesterday in the National Press Club Pauline Hanson laid out a textbook conservative policy platform on Net Zero: stop the subsidies, end the white elephants, don’t destroy our best agricultural land, and let the free market decide. And this was just the Net Zero policies. Hanson also wants to conserve our borders and our culture, and introduce Nuclear Energy.
Hanson wants to kill off the Snowy Hydroelectricity scheme. (Well, Hallalujuh!)
— “Let me make no apology: One Nation will end this renewable energy bribery — grants, tax incentives, concessional finance, even the government underwriting anything that sponsors the whole net zero hoax.”
— One Nation is saying: put everything into the energy mix. Let everyone share the wealth that is under our feet. We are one of the richest resource nations in the world. I am saying: get ideology out of the way.
— The Snowy Hydro 2.0 is nothing more than a black hole of debt for taxpayers.
The Liberals left a vacuum for One Nation to fill. They didn’t have to do that.
Hansen really twists the knife with the subsidies — this is the way to reach small businesses, farmers, and tradies.
The bloke in the corner store is productive. Does he get subsidies? I speak to struggling farmers everywhere. Do they get subsidies? Does the young 25-year-old going out on his own, starting up a business, get subsidies?
But no. Community batteries, solar banks, regional renewable projects — it’s impossible to keep track of all these taxpayer subsidies.
The government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation provides tens of billions of dollars for renewable projects, of course at favourable rates. This is a rot. But this outfit, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, has received over $200 billion of taxpayers’ money. That is $200,000 million of taxpayer money.
The source of much of our wealth is under our feet and should not be only for export.
Pauline knows these problems are self-inflicted, and gets straight to the point: “Stop blaming the Middle East.”
Her speech has hit a nerve.
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The transcript from about 23 — 31 minutes in as she talks about Energy:
Let me come back to energy, the central source of national poverty.
Amos Hochstein was the Special Coordinator for Energy Security during the Biden administration. Recently, he said of renewables:
“Renewables don’t compete with oil. They don’t supply solutions to aviation. We rely on more shipping that doesn’t run on renewables. Yes, we should invest more in renewables, but they won’t solve this crisis anytime soon.
“The inside of an electric vehicle is still made of plastic that is made from fuel and petroleum. Our hospitals are made entirely from petroleum. Our masks, our syringes, MRI machines, CT scans — all need helium, which comes from natural gas.”
Because individuals and businesses are suffering from this net zero nonsense, the government shovels out millions of dollars of taxpayers’ money just to justify their failing energy policy.
Let me make no apology: One Nation will end this renewable energy bribery — grants, tax incentives, concessional finance, even the government underwriting anything that sponsors the whole net zero hoax.
Let me give you one example of many: Rewiring the Nation, to build useless transmission lines and destroy prime agricultural land. Billions of taxpayers’ dollars. This will end.
One Nation will always protect prime agricultural land. It belongs to farmers, not government transmission lines.
Let me give you another example. The bloke in the corner store is productive. Does he get subsidies? I speak to struggling farmers everywhere. Do they get subsidies? Does the young 25-year-old going out on his own, starting up a business, get subsidies?
But no. Community batteries, solar banks, regional renewable projects — it’s impossible to keep track of all these taxpayer subsidies.
The government’s Clean Energy Finance Corporation provides tens of billions of dollars for renewable projects, of course at favourable rates. This is a rot.
Renewable energy projects benefit from cheaper finance than the market would offer. Are those benefits available to the bloke in the corner store, the small businessman in the suburbs, the businesses that keep regional towns in Australia alive? Do they get finance at favourable rates?
But this outfit, the Clean Energy Finance Corporation, has received over $200 billion of taxpayers’ money. That is $200,000 million of taxpayer money.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not opposed to renewable energy. But if it’s the saviour of the energy crisis, and if it’s profitable, why would government have to prop it up?
One Nation is saying: put everything into the energy mix. Let everyone share the wealth that is under our feet. We are one of the richest resource nations in the world. I am saying: get ideology out of the way.
Let me just add that it’s clear the hydrogen energy solution is blowing up in Australia’s face — or should I say Andrew Forrest’s face?
But here we go again: taxpayer subsidies. A Hydrogen Headstart program — $4 billion over four budgets — and the Prime Minister has announced $520 million of your money for green hydrogen projects outside the Headstart program.
And what about Malcolm Turnbull’s $2 billion Snowy 2.0 project? He calls himself a businessman, but showed no regard for taxpayers’ money. The $2 billion is now forecast to reach over $40 billion. Cancel it. Cut our losses.
Governments have no money of their own other than what they take from taxpayers. Snowy Hydro 2.0 is nothing more than a black hole of debt for taxpayers.
Before the South Australian election, One Nation argued:
“Australia’s fuel shock exposes energy insecurity. Australia’s energy sector is finally catching up to what One Nation has been saying for years. We need a secure, reliable energy future.
“Every leap forward in human progress has come from mastering energy. From fire to steam, from coal to oil, each step has powered stronger economies, lifted people out of poverty and secured our future.
“Energy isn’t a luxury. It is the backbone of prosperity. Get it wrong and everything else suffers. Get it right and the nation thrives.”
Therefore, moving forward, One Nation will introduce nuclear energy.
Let me be plain and clear. Our energy crisis is a product of failed energy policy, and this policy was supported years ago by major political parties and the big media giants. I have always opposed it. Ford and Holden closed their factories more than a decade ago for one simple reason: the cost of production.
The source of much of our wealth is under our feet and should not be only for export. Of course, basic environmental standards must be met, but they can’t be allowed to throttle our economy.
We will never be able to do without coal and gas. We should encourage investment in them and provide power to homes and businesses as we once did — at the world’s cheapest price.
Bowen said last March that households stood to claim savings of up to 10.1%. Yet average electricity debt for customers on hardship programs has jumped 22.8% over the past year. These are Australian Energy Regulator figures. Gas hardship debt is up 22.2%.
This applies to households, small businesses, industry and manufacturing.
The regulator, not Pauline Hanson, warned: “Experiencing energy debt and the ability of customers experiencing financial difficulty to repay debt remain a concern.”
Stop blaming the Middle East.
Electricity prices increased across all regions before the war in the Middle East. And there is evidence that disconnections over the coming quarters will increase if conditions don’t improve.
Disconnections in the first quarter of this year saw more than 6,200 electricity customers cut off. Average debt at the point of disconnection was more than $2,600.
I should point out that there are now new rules, to take effect from July, that will prevent disconnections for debts below $500.
I watched the entire broadcast and QuestionTime. Great Stuff. Oodles of Common Sense.
Fire the LIARS.
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X has been entertaining today. Reading the posts about how horrible Hanson is and then reading the replies.
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“problems are self-inflicted”
Ya-think? Tremendous damage without thought or purpose.
Just like the witch trials in the early modern period.
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You guys are truly blessed to have her
We have some in Congress and a couple in the senate here in the U.S.
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I’ve watched bits of it, and read plenty of the reactions. Good flak from the left, she’s close to the target. It’s the old story, the old attacks – “racist, policy vacuum, anti worker…” It’s just that an objective reading of what she said points to classical Conservative policy. ON has a long list of points, and two years to flesh them out. ON are quite clearly NOT racist, they just expect people to work for a living – HOW SHOCKING!
I agree Jo, ON are filling the vaccum left by the Lib/Nats. The Lib/Nats will survive, but they must eat humble pie first, and properly. While they munch on that, Pauline will show them the error of their ways. ON won’t last forver, but I hope they will last long enough.
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Life gets simple when you are honest and stop trying to support bullshit.
Their ABC, their CSIRO and their BoM are the major protagonists of the UN Climate Change™ hoax, free range borders, First Nations apartheid and gagging of free speech.
Just to be clear why their ABC is a pile of crap and needs to go:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weRKehixe08
Not even the guts to open the comments. There were 338 a-holes who liked this tripe.
Compare that sinful shitshow with Andrew Bolt’s take:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fP20m0mWVU
The likes tally 2,200. So it is clear ONP is winning voters.
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One argument you get is the need for radio in regional areas. There is a simple solution. Allow commercial radio stations use the (former) ABC transmitters to expand their footprint. The transmitter energy cost gets subsided as a public service. The commercial station has to ensure local news coverage and emergency broadcast coverage.
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The only use I have for their ABC if I am driving in the country is test cricket or maybe a football telecast. And the reason is that I need to tune less often but there are still black spots and I have to resort to just music or serenity of passing air.
Talk to Elon about using Starlink to support radio while driving. They already have patents in the pipeline for EV to Starlink coms. It makes all Tesla products independent of existing coms infrastructure.
Our ABC was a great service 50 years back. Now their ABC is the propaganda arm of Labor and their UN masters.
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Agree. That’s a fallacy that’s repeated endlessly. You even hear that from major critics of the ABC. That, the ABC do a good job in regional Australia. I think that’s nonsense and the local independent radio and TV do a far better job in my part of regional Victoria. Run rings around the ABC where the news mostly comes from either Melbourne or Sydney. The local corporate media do a much better job of real ” local” news and also do all the emergency warnings. The only reason most people listen to the ABC is because they have no ads.
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ABC careerists will be in the hurry to abandon the ship before it start sinking. Just give them an excuse and some quiet place to wait the storm out…
Great job, Pauline! Even if she does not win totally.
I hope soon there will be the signs of other mob, who I call “vice-chancellors” are looking for another means of gainful employment.
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We were staggered at the thorough preparation in that speech. She covered every aspect of the policies that have attacked our way of life across economic, political and social arenas. And in plain and direct language. She struck at the heart of the intentional destruction of the way of life established by our forebears in this land.
Go girl!
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Barring a legal challenge, most of the current Federal Parliamentarians are going to be out of a job. People need to see this happen, so they remember how it’s supposed to work. You do your job, or you get fired.
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Accountability is not a job requirement for politicians. The same could be said about meteorologists.
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I can’t see anything so far that I’d disagree with but I’ll have to watch the full speech ASAP.
Hopefully this will further shake up the jelly backs in the other parties and the media and the lying Albo and B O Bowen etc should be held under more pressure until they start to wake up.
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I was watching snippets of it, but missed the GetUp banner stunt in live time. It was a real manifesto of ON policies. The usual presentation time was 30 minutes but she doubled it. Which was good , because many journalists then got a real insight into the problems that Australia is experiencing, But, then some real solutions as presented by PH. What will Labor LNP and the media do? Probably try to not talk about it. If asked, provide little or no commentary.
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If you watch the ABC report on the presentation, the banner is the only thing that matters. It spends the first minute of the 7 minute story displaying the banner. They treat it as a joke rather than a disgraceful lack of respect.
If Pauline had minders, they would be ensuring someone was sacked for allowing that. It was disgraceful. The lack of security appalling. It had to be condoned by the organisers.
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For those who enjoy the salty tears of the Left, struggling to come to terms with the fact that Ms Hanson avoided choking on detail, or stamping on the media gotcha landmines laid out for her:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-17/federal-politics-live-blog-joyce-cautions-pauline-hanson/106805372
Interestingly, while the meeja is happy to report on the carefully stage-managed Shock-horror GetUp poster imbroglio, nobody seems keen to point out that:
a) the $100k pay rise was automatic on ON becoming an official minor party, or
b) the Greens Larissa Waters is paid a few grand more because she leads an official major party.
These sorts of dull details don’t matter in the Canberra Kindergarten.
Unfortunately for the dismal players concerned, 97.3% of Australians didn’t watch the Press Club performance and have no interest in the reporting.
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Victoria could well be the first region that has either LNP or ONP as the government and the other as opposition. Labour would be diminished to a minor party along with the Greens.
ONP is currently behind LNP but rising fast and now ahead of Labor.
It will be an interesting dynamic for the two leading parties to trade preferences. They could all but annihilate Labor and the Greens.
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There is a lot more to Snowy 2.0 Project history and cost blow out than many seem to think;
“Energy Minister Chris Bowen has been accused of urging the then Snowy Hydro boss to pin the project’s massive cost and timeline blowouts on the Morrison government when Labor came to power.
Snowy Hydro 2.0 is estimated to cost taxpayers about $42b – more than 20 times the $2 billion forecast by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in 2017.
Paul Broad, the former CEO of Snowy Hydro, said there was pressure from Labor to blame the cost blowout on the previous Coalition government.
“When the (Albanese) government came in and Chris Bowen became the Energy Minister, he was hell-bent on knocking me over and rewriting history,” Mr Broad told Sky News on Monday.
“He wanted me to go out and bag (Morrison-era energy minister) Angus (Taylor) and make all the problems his.”
SkyNews.com.au has reached out to Mr Bowen for comment, while Mr Taylor chose not to respond to questions.”
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Environmental Impact Statement – a lot of interesting background information;
https://emmdigital.com.au/Snowy2.0MainWorksSummary/
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Please consider the costs and the unions involved as well as the revised contract payment system Albanese Labor implemented after May 2022 and since the rapidly rising costs of Snowy 2.0.
Public works in Victoria costs reported to include at least $15 billion of unaccounted monies disappeared. When the new Parliament House in Canberra was built the cost was far higher than originally estimated and approved. There are many examples, defence procurement another, shipbuilding, Collins Class conventional submarines and other examples.
The Trade Union Royal Commission into governance and corruption was a nationwide including States inquiry and the Commissioner had the powers to refer people to police and courts of law Federal and States. Many witnesses at the RC were referred for further investigation. But apart from a small number charged at that time the RC did not make much difference.
Albanese Labor Government closed down industry watchdog ABCC – Australian Building Construction Commission?
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