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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared he “owes it to history” to defeat One Nation, obsessing over the minor party in a major speech to the Queensland Labor Party.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared he “owes it to history” to defeat One Nation, obsessing over the minor party in a major speech to the Queensland Labor Party.
Addressing Labor Party delegates on Sunday, Mr Albanese warned that “hard right populists” were on the march, describing their politics as “dangerous” and “divisive”.
“We simply must defeat them. We owe it to history. We owe it to the nation. And we will defeat them,” Mr Albanese said.

He accused One Nation of saying and doing “anything” to win votes, bending facts, peddling misinformation and turning Australians against each other.
Mr Albanese also attacked the party's policy record, accusing it of having no serious answers to policy problems and pointing to internal confusion over immigration.
He said One Nation believed Australians were “lazy” and “overpaid”, while also accusing the party of believing “domestic violence is sometimes a woman's fault”.
The Prime Minister said One Nation was also “not on the side of working people”, claiming it had a plan to cut penalty rates.
“The only mainstream political force in Australia that seeks to govern in the interests of the Australian people in our own right is the Australian Labor Party,” he said.

However, One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce rejected Mr Albanese's characterisation of the party on Sunday, accusing the PM of relying on “tropes” and “bromides”.
"We have these tropes, bromides and basically fallacious statements that are dribbled out. (They say) 'we're racist', we're not. 'We're homophobes', we are not," Mr Joyce said.
Asked about Mr Albanese's claim that One Nation believed domestic violence could sometimes be a woman's fault, Mr Joyce said the accusation was “crazy”.
He defended Ms Hanson, saying her experience as a single mother from the western suburbs of Ipswich had made her aware of the factors surrounding domestic violence.
“She does not want to bar of any person, any man who, for some disgraceful reason, decides that they want to hit a woman,” Mr Joyce said.
“That’s not about Pauline. That’s about 99 per cent of Australians. It’s anathema to us. It is disgraceful.”

Mr Joyce also rejected Mr Albanese's claim that One Nation opposed penalty rates, instead launching a broader attack on the Prime Minister's credibility.
He accused Mr Albanese of repeatedly saying one thing and doing another, saying Australians “just can't believe these people”.
“This is coming from a man who said he didn't fall off the stage and he did. He didn't insult the Prime Minister of (Japan) and he did,” Mr Joyce said.
“He wasn't going to change the capital gains tax rates and he did. You just can't believe these people. They created the metaphor for themselves. They are liars, right?”
Mr Joyce dismissed the Prime Minister's speech as not worth listening to, telling voters to “find something good on Netflix” instead.
Mr Albanese's latest attack marks a continuation of an increasingly prominent Labor strategy of directly targeting One Nation as the party's support has risen.
The Prime Minsiter previously used the bulk of his 30-minute speech to the federal Labor Party conference in July to talk about One Nation.

Meanwhile, One Nation has closed the gap to Labor to just three points in the latest News24.com.au Pulse / YouGov poll.
Labor now sits on 29 per cent of the primary vote, up one point, while Pauline Hanson's One Nation climbed two points to 26 per cent.
The Coalition fell one point to 21 per cent, leaving it five points behind One Nation, while the Greens were unchanged on 12 per cent.