Pauline for PM from the SENATE?

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:00]Pauline Hanson, the One Nation leader, joining us live. Good to talk to you again, Pauline.

[00:00:05]I've got to ask you uh off the top there. Um there are reports that you might be moving to the coast and running in the seat of Capricornia. Can you confirm that or rule it out?

[00:00:18]No, I'm not going to confirm. I'm not ruling out anything, Chris. As I said to you, I'm contemplating standing for a lower house seat, and I haven't made that determination as yet, and I'm not going to say what I'm doing at this stage. So, we'll see what happens. So, what happens outside the election? Would you contemplate moving away from that lovely part of the world we're speaking to you in now, though?

[00:00:44]It's going to be a hard decision to make but that one, Chris, but I have to look at um where do I want to take the party?

[00:00:50]I've made it quite clear I want One Nation to be government, and I will do what I need to do um for us to achieve that aim because I am determined to get rid of the Labor, Greens, Teal government.

[00:01:02]>> Well, if you're serious about being a party of government, then you have to go to the lower house, right? You have to take that risk and go to the lower house because you're going to sit back and watch your you know, David Farley or or Barnaby Joyce be Prime Minister and you can just guide them like a puppet master from the Senate.

[00:01:21]Well, Chris, you remember there was um John Gorton who was uh Prime Minister from the Senate for 3 months. And um please correct me if I'm wrong. Does the Constitution state that you have to be a Prime Minister in the lower house? It doesn't. So, anyway, that's something to to look at as well. Well, he got the leadership and then quickly shifted down there, but you wouldn't wouldn't want to risk that, would you?

[00:01:42]Yeah.

[00:01:44]No, what I'm saying is the Constitution doesn't specify that you must be in the lower house to be Prime Minister of the country. So, it's never been challenged really beforehand. Only John Gorton did take on the premiership, and then he moved from the upper house to to the lower house. But Chris, like I said, I'm not ruling anything in or out at this stage. We've got a long way to go, yes, and I've got a Victorian state election plus New South Wales state election to go as well. So, everything's on the cards.

[00:02:12]All right. Well, speaking about people leading parties from the upper house, let's go to South Australia where Cory Bernardi has made his maiden speech in the upper house where he leads your three candidates there and four in the three members there and and four members in the lower house. Here's a little bit of what he had to say.

[00:02:31]But let me begin by welcoming you all to the land of my ancestors and by recognizing the leaders past, present, and emerging that have all played a role in building our great state and nation.

[00:02:43]Their stories are all very different.

[00:02:46]But without them, none of this would be possible for me.

[00:02:50]That was a bit of a tongue-in-cheek welcome to country, wasn't it?

[00:02:56]I think it was, but I I really liked it.

[00:02:58]First time I've heard it. I haven't had a chance to listen to his speech at all.

[00:03:01]So, that was a surprise to me to listen to it and I thought, go, Cory.

[00:03:06]Go, Cory. All right. Well, his ancestors, I know there's an Italian background and his dad his dad was very successful Italian. I think he was a migrant, but I don't know how far back the rest of his family goes.

[00:03:18]I'll show you some more of his maiden speech. Here is he is he talking about the issues of gender and children?

[00:03:25]Media are silent while the government allows doctors to mutilate children in the name of gender-affirming care.

[00:03:31]To me, it's sheer madness that it can be countered with a common sense analogy.

[00:03:36]Yeah, he's always been very clear-cut on some of these issues. He's obviously going to take them up with a gusto in South Australia.

[00:03:43]Well, good on him because I've said exactly the same on the floor of parliament and so has Malcolm Roberts and and my other senators. So, we're all on the same page. That's what I love about One Nation. We don't hold back. We say what the majority of the public are actually thinking, but we've got the guts to actually say it. So, I got the right person to represent South Australia for One Nation. I'll tell you what, a bloke many, many years ago, many decades ago, I was a young reporter and covered the South Australian upper house where it was very, very hard to stay awake. I think it's going to be a lot more interesting with Cory Bernardi up there.

[00:04:19]It'll be a long Tell him from Carlos Juambaro. Oh, exactly. Carlos Juambaro is giving his maiden speech tomorrow.

[00:04:26]All right. Listen for his. We'll keep an eye on those. They're available on the South Australian parliamentary website for those who might be interested. Let's go to this exchange on SBS last night where they're talking about the impact of One Nation.

[00:04:39]Your family came to Australia about 40 years ago from Fiji. What do you think about One Nation? I reckon she's fantastic, to be honest with you.

[00:04:47]Someone who loves her own country so much, that's not racist. You have to have pride in your country, and we came from Fiji as well, and we came to this best country that we call home now. I call myself Australian, don't call myself Fijian or Indian. I've put a Australian flag pole in my front yard, and you come to this country, embrace the Australian way of living, or you know what?

[00:05:07]You stay where you are.

[00:05:09]So, that was the good news for Pauline and One Nation, but then there was this.

[00:05:13]Ray, as a Muslim woman, how do you feel about the rise in One Nation's popularity? I think that the rise of One Nation's popularity is also proportionate to the rise of Islamophobia in the Australian context, but I'd also go further and acknowledge that Islamophobia and institutionalized Islamophobia has been a problem in Australia for decades.

[00:05:40]Some good and bad there for you, Pauline. How do you plead to this charge of inflaming Islamophobia?

[00:05:49]I think it's absolute rubbish because they've been pushing their own agenda in Australia. And if you question any of you question Sharia law or halal or anything else, you're Islamic phobic.

[00:05:59]Which um this has been this is happening all around the world. If you read up and and uh understand this is happening in Britain, it's happening in Canada, and it's happening in Denmark, Germany, France, and all the rest of it. So, you can't question anything. Chris, you summed it up in your own opening statements that you made about what's happening with um the Royal Commission into anti-Semitism that you can't question anything because they'll throw back the tag as they did to me for many years calling me a racist, which wasn't the case. So, don't be held back in your views or having an opinion or having a say because they want to throw tags at you. If we don't question this and debate the issue, heaven help us as a country where we are headed. And I want to thank that that Australian who is proud of being an Australian. That's what I've said. You'd be surprised the number of migrants out there who do fully support me and are proud to be in this country. And I thank you for your comments. But the media and other those individuals with their own agenda will constantly try and pull me down and not interested in what the new migrants or those that have been here for many years want to embrace this country and embrace what I stand for as the fact is we are all Australians under the one law and the one flag.

[00:07:08]Pauline, thanks again for joining us from Scenic Rim. Enjoy that area before you move to the coast, hey?

[00:07:16]Cheers, Chris.

[00:07:18]Pauline Hanson, the One Nation uh she might have to move