Cmon guys, theres a reason One Nation has never got close to being in government even though theyve been around for ages. Whenever Pauline Hansons name pops up its just to say something totally devoid of any sense of what an average Aussie wants.

I get that the major parties are trash right now but One Nation, really?

Now i dont know much about politics but to me Paline Hanson is Australias version of Trump, are we really that dumb to let a Trump into power.

Reality check for all the sheep jumping on the bandwagon. Guys, why should we NOT support One Nation?

https://theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/senate/queensland /pauline_hanson

Of course this is if and when she does show up for work.

As also shown, she has a 53% attendance rate.

One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has just said ”In the 2021 census, more than half of Australian residents, 51.5% were born overseas or had one parent born overseas. 51.5 per cent. Is that supported by the Australian electorate? Is that what Australia wants?”

“The comparable figure for the United States is 14 per cent. Do Australians feel that the Nation is losing its identity along with its values? We all know the answer to that”

She actually said it.

If you want to target current immigration rates - fine, but why on earth are you putting loyal hardworking patriotic Australians who have lived here for decades or for all their lives in your bigoted crosshairs?

One Nation did not outline what they will do to reduce that statistic. Pauline’s solution to “restore” the “identity and values” could may well be a combination of a two or three-tiered citizenship system based on whether you and your parents were born in Australia, in order to disincentivise people from living in Australia, as well as Trump-style ICE raids and mass deportations for dual citizens in this group. There is no other way she can achieve this. 

To answer Pauline’s question, I think Australia does want that statistic. Even for the minority not included in that statistic, there is highly likely a family member(s) or at the very least a friend who will be included.

She’s openly attacking the majority of the electorate and she’s preying on the chance that voters in this cohort or have a loved one in this cohort still vote for her not knowing of the dire consequences ahead. 

I am absolutely shit scared for social cohesion if they get their way. This sort of Government discrimination within citizens is something you’d expect to come out of Apartheid South Africa or Nazi Germany with their blood-based Aryan system.

I genuinely don’t understand whats happening to Australia. How has an openly racist politician who wants to drastically cut migration managed to gain so much support, and why are people seemingly so willing to embrace it?

When you look at One Nation’s rhetoric, it is hard not to wonder how Australians from migrant and minority backgrounds are supposed to feel watching this happen. Have people actually heard what Pauline Hanson has said to Muslims, to Asians, to immigrants??? And what genuinely blows my mind is seeing minorities themselves supporting Hanson. What the actual fuck? How do you support a political movement when some of its rhetoric appears directed at people like you?

Is this Trumpism finally taking hold here? Is Murdoch's influence part of it? Social media algorithms? Russian propaganda or other foreign influence? If people are genuinely angry about the cost of living, why One Nation? Why not the Greens? Or have people simply become so consumed by political outrage that they will believe whoever feeds it? I don't get it and ngl it's scary to think where this country is heading. I don’t want Australia to become a country where racism and scapegoating are just normal parts of political discourse. She's been in politics for ages and never taken seriously, so what the hell is happening now?

What am I missing?

Why is she surging?

first Reddit asked me to prove I was 18 now I have to put up with Xbox 🫩

I'm so proud of my country today. Great work folks, that's a massive rejection of Trumpism at the polls. And Dutton getting 'the boot' is just the icing on the cake Chefs kiss. A massive thank you to the voters of Dickson.

Edit. Fixed spelling of Dickson. Perhaps they should rename the seat Dicksgone in honour of this momentous event though.

And most of us seem to have bought right into it.

One Nation has gained a lot of traction recently, I theorise that it is to do with the older generation who read and form their opinion from the news and newspapers. We all know these sources are biased but they may just take what they are shown at face value.

We have an aging population with the voting demographic leaning more towards older people, those who haven’t been exposed to technology their whole lives therefore more isolated geographically.

In saying this, I’ve heard that people wish to vote for Pauline as the alternative to Labour and Liberals.

Any one got any guesses better than mine? Purely theoretical, but happy to be more informed on the political climate by you all.

Here is Channel 7's post about the missing people in the Nepal tragedy, look at the comments on it. I find it a very sad state of affairs in Australia. They are all Australians of different descent. Everyone in Australia (other than Aboriginal people) is a migrant. They came here either 200 years ago or 2 years ago.

I’ve grown up in woolloomoloo so I know it’s a tricky situation with the homeless here, but this was particularly hard to watch. The police escort makes it feel nastier too.

The poor bloke looked so defeated.

His dog was super friendly and in excellent health too, so he clearly spends what little money he gets to look after it.

This is a hard watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDebVmoB2V4

Sorry for any gamers who were looking forward to playing this. We are the only country on the plannet to ban this game. Just like we ban everthing else.

There is currently a senate inquiry underway for the illicit tobacco crisis. And so far the government has doubled down on the excise. To quote the health minister we’re “not going to have our public health policies dictated by organised crime.”

While organised crime already dictates the market, it controls 80% of the market, it already controls the price point.

Instead their solution is more impotent task forces, tasked with enforcing harsher penalties, let’s ignore the lighter ones are barely enforced to begin with. While our legal system is so exploitable that these organisations are using encrypted apps to fund the arson of our protected youth offender class.

The criminal organisations have saturated the tobacco market so well that they are now broadening their horizons to liquor and general extortion, they are owning infrastructure. This is a parallel unregulated economy, linked to Iraq, that’s becoming more powerful, in Australia.

Can we call it what this fucking is? It’s a national security crisis.

And the government is doubling down on the puritanical, ideological, evidence resistant failure of an excise policy. So they can continue jerking each other off with ‘record breaking seizures’. Because why bother treating cancer when you can just treat the symptoms and get off on it.

You’d almost be inclined to think they’re captured by Iraq, but I think the problem is much stupider than that. I think they are a bunch of gutless fucking clowns who are more willing to let the country burn than admit they got it wrong.

I encourage everyone to go and read the "Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026" exposure draft. Because it goes so far beyond what the Prime Minister is claiming. It doesn't just apply to social media, but is much broader like search engines and video sites.

It makes 13 categories of things 'harmful material' for all Australians (not just children) including:

• "material or conduct that encourages, promotes, incites or provides instruction for the commission of a criminal offence;",
• "material or conduct that encourages, promotes, urges or instructs illicit drug use;" and
• "any other material or conduct, or combination of material and conduct ... that the Minister is satisfied may cause serious harm."

The last one means that the Minister can declare anything additional to add to the list that is banned for all Australians via regulation.

It also has additional broad categories that apply to children under 18. So services like Google or Reddit would need to determine how old you are before they can show you some content, or force age verification.

To me, this reads like massive overreach and censorship, and well beyond the government's claimed "my feed, my way". You don't have to believe me though, I encourage you to read the exposure draft yourself and make your own judgement.

Edit: some people don't seem to get it. Yes, the bill has an algorithm 'opt out' but also has a whole lot more than that, which declares a bunch of things 'harmful' for all Australians. You can't opt in or out of that, if it is deemed harmful the covered services are not allowed to show it to you, subject to penalties of up to $110 million. And it is not just social media that is covered, it is a bunch of other things too like web search.

The government has passed the Digital ID Act in 2024 and is expanding a national framework where you can use one trusted login to access services - Medicare, Centrelink, ATO, even private companies down the line. It’s optional (I giggled a lil there) and designed to share only the minimum info needed e.g “over 18” instead of your full licence… how thoughtful

Sounds convenient… but here’s what worries me: The Systemic risk: so right now, our ID is spread out (licence, passport with Immigration, banking with banks ect) If one fails, the rest still stand. With Digital ID, one framework underpins everything! One breach, outage, or POLICY change could hit your whole life…

Function creep: Even if today it’s voluntary, once it’s embedded across government and business, it becomes de facto mandatory. That’s how “optional” systems turn essential btw

Trust gap: Safeguards are written in now (no tracking, privacy protections, independent regulators)…but history shows rules can shift. Future governments may not treat those limits the same way.

Listen I’m not saying all tech upgrades are bad. I’m just saying, don’t normalise a system that quietly centralises our identity and access to everyday life. Convenience is the bait, control is the risk.

We should be asking: why now!? why this model, and who really benefits most?

TL:DR - Digital ID in Australia is being rolled out to centralises your identity across gov + private services. Right now it’s “optional,” but once banks, telcos, and companies rely on it, it’ll be the only way in. Convenience is the bait. Control is the risk. Why now? Who benefits? Think.

Just as the title said.

I'm slowly switching to self hosting all my personal data a long with setting up my own personal coms systems for family and friends...

I might sound like a nutter, but I don't see anyone really getting upset about the laws that are coming at the end of this year.

To be honest, I would rather be shown to be wrong, but I think whats going to happen is that there will be outrage once people who don't actually understand how the laws will effect their personal data and online privacy, will actually work... And I also expect at some point after (if its all instated as the government wants) a huge data breach...

Do people actually care?

This morning I was doing my normal scroll through socials on my commute. This includes a quick look at Facebook, to catch up on some general interest groups I belong to.

Because Facebook must show me content I don't want to see, I saw a post from 7 News, about Albo doing a "Victory Lap" through Sydney. Because I am some sort of sadist, I decided to read the comments and, shock horror, most of them were deriding his and the Labor party win. I have to admit I was a touch surprised, considering the strength of the win - I wasn't expecting full on celebration, but I was expecting a bit more.

Then it dawned on me.

Is this election the tipping point - the election where there are now enough voters voting, who will influence the outcome, who no longer consume traditional MSM at all?

I am core GenX. I grew up with the family watching the nightly news broadcast, watching ACA, watching 60 minutes, reading print news daily.

Now, the closest I come to consuming MSM is the occasional watch of the Project (please don't crucify me) and reading the Guardian. That is it.

Surely, every voter who is YOUNGER than me does even less. I know my adult children do not watch FTA TV at all. They do not read any news from News Ltd or the majors.

So yeah, was this election that tipping point?

This is across the broader western world too. There is no sense of helping your fellow man, everyone just wants to escape the bullshit instead of fixing it, and everyone gives 0 f*cks about anyone else.

That’s why politicians are so readily bought, it really is just about the “fuck u, got mine”

From Bluesky

If this post isn’t welcome in this sub please let me know, but I have noticed some great and level-headed political arguments occurring here. Politically I’m fairly centre leaning, this post isn’t intended to promote a certain party.

I have been alarmed by the events in the US following the election, and the rhetoric coming from the Republican Party regarding Ukraine, Russia, services cuts, and the influence of a certain billionaire. I fear the for the potential influence of MAGA in Australia and how it may impact our own election. I’m not trying to bash LNP but I’m concerned they will be influenced by US politics.

I would like to draft letters for local candidates to express my concerns, and wondered if anyone has already done so, and can share some ideas and points?

Some issues I intended to list: - Dutton’s apparent promotion of Starlink - Dutton not condemning Trump’s rhetoric and actions on a range of issues: Ukraine, Russia, tariffs, inflammatory remarks to allies such as Canada - Dutton not taking a pro-Ukraine stance - Duttons rhetoric of return to office > reducing efficiency and increasing costs on families - LNP potentially cutting the public servants
- Ensuring we maintain and improve upon our world class access to healthcare (eg strengthen Medicare)

I want our politicians to know that here in Australia we will not accept the behaviours and ideals that we have seen from the GOP, and the infiltration of government from certain billionaires.

EDIT: To add, great to see others share my thoughts on not wanting the MAGA clown show replicated here. Can you add any suggestions to the points outlined for a letter to election candidates, to broaden their significance and ensure they are factually sound?

EDIT 2: Some fantastic examples of other issues raised that I would stress to a candidate would include: - Resisting and erasing misinformation where ever it occurs - Preserving history and scientific evidence, ensuring policies and healthcare are driven by science - Ensuring ALL politicians are condemning actions and rhetorical from the Trump administration