One Nation are now the Party of the workers, and Labor the party of wealth and academics « JoNova

One Nation are now the Party of the workers, and Labor the party of wealth and academics « JoNova

An Oil Tanker at Kwinana, Western Australia. Photo by Calistemon. By Jo Nova Like the US and UK — the political tides have shifted in Australia and our Prime Minister’s petty scorn of the rising right wing party will bite him Dear PM, One Nation wouldn’t need to go begging to Asia for spare diesel because we’d be drilling for it ourselves… Even the Labor Party is now worried about the meteoric rise of One Nation in the polls. So Anthony Albanese, the PM, tried to attack Pauline Hanson by arguing that she couldn’t go crawling to Asia for emergency fuel supplies (like he did), because Asia will remember what she has said. (Which is roughly that she wants to stop mass immigration from Asia (and everywhere else) and end the multicultural experiment.) One Nation just need to point out the obvious — that a smart political party wouldn’t need to run off and beg for fuel in the first place, because they’d be self sufficient instead. It was his incompetence that meant Australia had only a 30 day supply of fuel, barely two refineries, and no merchant fleet (not one ship!) and had made it impossibly hard [...]