Pauline Hanson's One Nation
https://www.onenation.org.au/
* Many similar policies to Trumpet of Patriots, Clive Palmer even wanted them
to merge, but this party's dubious idol is their own Pauline Hanson, not
Donald Trump. They go into more detail than ToP and have a few more
policies besides.
* Without claiming to copy Trump, they have a far more detailed plan for how
to "slash government waste" than ToP's DOGE down under policy. More
infrastructure spending, fewer social and climate services. They claim to
save $90 billion with this plan, but the savings figures shown only add up
to $59.5 billion. It's still all more adgenda-serving than practical.
* Want a referendum to add "constitutional protection of free speech". Which
I do quite like, though Hanson's probably likely to pursue it in an
excessively one-sided way. I'm not really sure it's worth the trouble of a
constitutional change just so that can be erroded like it is overseas
anyway though.
* Cheaper houses by making building materials used for building homes
GST exempt for five years, and reduced regulation. The GST break probably
won't make much of an impact where supply of material, workforce, or land
is constrained. Big property developers seem expert at dodging the more
important regulations around quality-of-work inspections and planning
already, though I'd like to see individuals given an equal playing field
there. I don't think this is a solution.
* They're following the Liberal party with sticking to fossil fuel power
generation with the aim of transitioning to nuclear energy. They somehow
"aim to slash electricity bills by 20% immediately". Same on cutting fuel
excise for a year. Not really much detail on their cost-of-living policies
except where they're copying the Libs. At least they're not afraid of saying
they want to tackle Medicare fraud, which I think should be given more
attention. But just by adding a photo ID and "ensuring Medicare is properly
resourced to investigate and prevent fraudulent claims" which is a bit vague.
* They rather boldly admit "We know that the majority of people believe in
man-made global warming caused by carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases"
before going on to deny global warming in a lengthy rant. I guess this is a
party that _wants_ to speak for the minority and not the majority then? An
odd aspiration in a democracy.
* Want to prevent foreign ownership of farming land and water rights, as well
as anything essential or scarce, currently including houses.
* Heavy on cutting immigration, which is good, but of course slanted towards
racial bias. This policy is tagged "Priority 3" along with, umm, nothing
else. I guess sorting their priorities out proved too difficult.
* Anti-abortion, although they want to tighten the restrictions rather than
ban it. I'm still not with them on this.
They're trying harder than ToP to turn their right-wing ideology into
policy, but it still all reads a bit shallow. Practically speaking they're
inclined to follow the Liberal party on economic policy (while probably saying
a lot that the Libs themselves only dare to imply), but quickly swing
further out to the right whenever they get a whiff of a social policy.
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