But to many Australians, it looks less like fairness and more like a massive tax grab dressed up as compassion.
While wrapping himself in the language of helping young Australians, he is reaching deeper into their pockets to fund a bigger government and his vision for Australia’s future.
There is something disturbingly unfair about building your own wealth under one set of rules, then changing those rules once you’ve made it to the top.
That is the contradiction confronting Anthony Albanese.
The Prime Minister built his own financial future in an Australia that rewarded aspiration.
Hanson seems to have her heart in the right place. But this is a worry:
She still has nothing to say about the Modi speech or the visa deal he and Albo struck to bring in more Indian curry munchers? Strange… How are you going to ‘save Australia’…?
We need a “complete audit” on aboriginal and indigenous funding.
Taxpayers deserve to know how much money is being spent, on what specific programs, and why its not getting to the people in need, regardless of skin colour. pic.twitter.com/CePdDRb3kF
— Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 (@PaulineHansonOz) July 16, 2026
You can’t force leaders onto people based on their sex. They must be leaders first, this applies to both men and women.
Pauline Hanson succeeded because her message resonates, she’s persistent, dedicated, and actually listens to the issues other politicians dismiss.
Hanson sparks “backlash” after Tommy Robinson podcast comments
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is under fire after a UK podcast appearance with far-right activist Tommy Robinson. In the discussion, Hanson blamed Australia’s migration problems on the end of the White Australia Policy and repeated claims that people from “Muslim areas” are heavily involved in NDIS rorting.
Federal Health and NDIS Minister Mark Butler said he has not seen official data that supports those claims, and questioned why Hanson chose to meet Robinson. Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young also condemned the remarks and called on Hanson to apologise. Hanson has since defended the meeting in a 7NEWS Spotlight interview and said she will not apologise.
So it seems the Labor Government will be handing out billions on our behalf to a Chinese renewable energy company with extremely close links to the Chinese Communist Party. What madness. We’re destroying prime agricultural land, pursuing a net zero agenda that is driving up energy bills, and we’re now paying billions to the Chinese (the world’s biggest polluter) for the privilege. At what point did the national interest, or what is best for everyday Australians, enter the equation here?
Pauline Hanson has launched a barrage of policy wars with Labor and the Coalition by pledging massive cuts to government spending while ending the ‘transgender insurgency’ and Islamic fundamentalism in Australia.
REPORTER: “You used to call them religious theocratic lunatics. Do you still believe that language applies to the leadership today?”
SEC. RUBIO: “Well, it’s not that I believe it. It’s the fact of the matter. I mean, the Iranian system is led by clerics, radical clerics. That’s… pic.twitter.com/0FIGKdMlTq
🚨 NOW: Sec. Marco Rubio just said it PERFECTLY in front of dozens of global officials on leftist terrorism
“You are here because two weeks ago, a 72-year-old woman was BURNED on over 80% of her body in her own home, in Greece, and she died, executed by a fire bomb because her… pic.twitter.com/eBC6b1pBWD
The Iranian regime appears to have lost the conflict in every meaningful sense, but its leaders still refuse to admit what is right in front of them.
Their military infrastructure has been battered, their credibility has been shattered, and their threats sound more desperate with every passing day.
President Trump has repeatedly made clear that America prefers a negotiated end, but negotiations only work when both sides are willing to face reality. Iran has been given chance after chance to step back, abandon its nuclear ambitions, stop funding terror proxies, and end its campaign of regional intimidation.
And the commentariat DownUnder loses their shiite. Andrew Bolt’s vile attacks on Tommy Robinson are an eye-opener to how low the journaille will stoop to keep the establishment in power and to prevent change.
Just two weeks after a podcast interview with Tommy Robinson cost Karl Stefanovic his television career, Pauline Hanson has recorded her own sit-down with the British far-right figure. (From the extreme left Financial Review)
Pauline Hanson has declared she was left “gobsmacked” after touring the English town of Luton with controversial British activist Tommy Robinson, saying the experience reinforced her determination to prevent Australia from following the same path.
The One Nation leader, who is in Britain ahead of next week’s CPAC Great Britain conference, visited Robinson’s hometown as he pointed to what he described as the town’s changing demographics and the effects of mass immigration.
During a video shared on social media, Robinson drove Ms Hanson through parts of Luton before asking for her reaction.
“I’m gobsmacked because I wouldn’t think that I was in England,” Ms Hanson said.
“I definitely don’t want Australia to become like this. This is not Great Britain to me, and that’s why I’m going to protect Australia.”
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has diverted his attention from Labor to Pauline Hanson in a blistering attack on her party. He says One Nation would deliver an “eternity of pain” for Australia, lighting the fuse for a war of words with the senator.
Hours after an appeals court lifted a ban on Marine Le Pen’s eligibility for the next presidential election while upholding her embezzlement conviction, France’s far-right leader announced plans to run in 2027 – possibly with an electronic ankle bracelet.
“I am a candidate in the presidential election. I will not change my mind,” Le Pen told the TF1 television channel.
Europe’s right-wing forces had been watching closely as some had expected her to hand the reins to her protege, Jordan Bardella, who at 30 is 27 years younger than Le Pen, popular, and more savvy on social media.
Le Pen’s far-right National Rally (RN) party opposes globalisation and immigration and seeks stricter border controls and fewer ecological policies. She is the daughter of the party’s founder and has run for president unsuccessfully three times.
“It’s like Russian nesting dolls. Jordan Bardella is part of Marine Le Pen’s political doctrine, and he’s committed to her,” RN lawmaker Jean-Philippe Tanguy said on French TV channel BFM.
In March 2025, Le Pen was convicted of embezzling European Union funds. The original ruling disqualified her from running for public office for five years, but the appeals court reduced the ban to 45 months with 30 months suspended. The ban started in March last year, so she has already served the 15 months.
She is now planning to appeal to the Court of Cassation, which is the country’s top civil court.
The PVV boss said: “This is surrender and only cowards surrender. If the Dutch authorities and police are not fighting crime from Moroccans, they might as well invite the Moroccan king and submit.
However, despite the unrest, police took little action, apparently concerned that they could not handle the hordes of young male North African mobs. Yet the commander of the riot squad, which was called up on Saturday, Sander van der Hulle, defended his officers taking a hands-off approach towards much of the hooliganism.
Speaking of fireworks being shot off into crowds and the dangerous driving in areas with children, Van der Hulle toldDe Telegraaf: “If you start enforcing against minor offences, it becomes war.”
“We carefully choose when to enforce and when not to. For relatively minor offences, such as the situations you describe, we sometimes decide not to intervene to prevent the situation from getting out of hand,” the riot squad commander added.
This explanation did not impress sovereigntist Party For Freedom leader Geert Wilders, who told Breitbart London that it amounted to a “surrender”.
Geert Wilders: “Islam is evil, violent, hateful, barbaric and incompatible with freedom. Mohammed was a pedophiIe!”
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Geert Wilders is one of the Netherlands most famous, influential and controversial politicians. Visegrad24 founder Stefan Tompson sits down for a rare interview with the Dutch firebrand in the The Hague to discuss mass migration, remigration, the grooming gang scandal and right wing politics in general.
Today I spoke about #islam and the prophet #Muhammad in the Dutch parliament
US President Donald Trump says the ceasefire deal with Iran is “over”, adds dealing with Tehran is a “waste of time”.
His comments come after the US said it launched “powerful strikes” against Iran following attacks on three ships in the Strait of Hormuz, including Qatari and Saudi tankers.
In response, Iran says it targeted “85 US military installations” over attacks on its Hormozgan province and the port city of Mahshahr, with air raid sirens blaring in Bahrain and Kuwait.
Trump orders US treasury secretary to immediately cut off all trade and commercial ties with Spain.
Muslims are brazenly ripping down American flags across New York City.
This is the reality behind the election of radicals like Zohran Mamdani.
Islam is not here to integrate or live in peace. It is here to conquer and turn America into an Islamic state ruled by Sharia law. pic.twitter.com/80OT2qXnFs
They argue that Dearborn has a Muslim-majority population and say churches should respect Islamic traditions. Citing that under Sharia, church bells should not be louder than the Islamic call to prayer.
New York’s got like 580 goddamn mosques, so why the heII are MusIims still blocking major streets for prayer?
Don’t worry, they don’t really mean it. They really want nothing more than Coca Cola & MacDonalds hamburgers, and to be Facebook friends with us….
“They’re dying to settle,” Trump said. “They want to settle so badly.” Yeah, they’re making that clear every day.
Supporters of the Islamic Republic at Ali Khamenei’s funeral in Tehran chanted “kill Trump” and “kill Bibi” while holding banners calling for revenge for the slain supreme leader.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians gathered on Azadi Street in Tehran to bid farewell to Iran’s late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
A truck carrying the coffins of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his family members makes its way through crowds of mourners in Tehran
A massive crowd gathers for the funeral procession of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Tehran with authorities estimating millions of people are on the streets.
Ten Japan-linked vessels have begun leaving the Strait of Hormuz after spending months stranded in the Gulf because of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
The ships include six oil tankers carrying 12 million barrels of Middle Eastern crude as well as two chemical tankers, a vehicle carrier, and a container ship.
Israeli Defence Minister Katz threatens Iranian leaders
Israel’s defence minister has claimed that his country assassinated Khamenei for allegedly leading a “plan to destroy” Israel and again threatened to “eliminate” any Iranian leader who tries to promote such actions, according to Israel’s Channel 13.
Israel Katz made the comments in response to the ongoing funeral procession in Tehran, the Israeli broadcaster reported.
Ghalibaf says peace in Lebanon cannot happen without Tehran
Ghalibaf says peace in Lebanon cannot hold unless Iran plays what he describes as its stabilising role in the region.
Iran’s top negotiator made the remarks during a meeting in Tehran with Muhammad Fneish, a senior Hezbollah official who travelled to Iran to attend Khamenei’s funeral ceremonies.
Three sons of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei prayed beside his coffin and those of four other family members. But Mojtaba, the son who succeeded him as Iran’s supreme leader, did not make an appearance https://reut.rs/4eMyrqB. Reuters
As The History of Jihad explains, Muhammad concluded the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah with the pagan Quraysh on terms unfavorable to the Muslims, much to the confusion and anger of some of his companions. A new revelation promised the disgruntled Muslims “much booty” (Qur’an 48:19). Perhaps to fulfill this promise, Muhammad led them against the Khaybar oasis, which Jews, many of them exiles from Medina, inhabited, and massacred the Jews there, seizing the promised abundance of booty. The Treaty of Hudaybiyyah only lasted until the Muslims were strong enough to break it. Now Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi is likening U.S.-Iran negotiations to the same treaty. The Trump administration should take careful note of this, and ponder its implications for the usefulness of the negotiations altogether. But it won’t.
