Nobody planted Pauline Hanson. The miners wrote her song a decade before she sang it. Thirty years on, they have bought her a plane.
Tag: Gina Rinehart
One Nation, Three Shareholders
The fraud charge against One Nation’s founders was quashed. The real offence was perfectly legal: a party built so that the people who paid for it would never own it.
The Scorecard
One Nation has won the seat of Farrer. The Liberal vote collapsed by 31
points. The journalists filed the numbers. Urban Wronski asks the harder
question: what does a win like this mean when the information ecosystem that
democracy depends on is owned, hollowed out, and burning? A Martin Amis-
flavoured reckoning with journalism, dark money and the Palace of Lies.
That Was the Week That Was, Part 3: “The Farrer fracture:
One Nation’s David Farley has taken the once‑impregnable Coalition seat of Farrer. But with Gina Rinehart’s funding and the party’s rural base, who really owns the populist rage?
One Nation’s battler lie unravels
One Nation calls itself the battler’s friend. Gina Rinehart’s plane, the NRA’s phone calls and Big Coal’s Senate votes tell a different story. Howard sowed the tares.
Abbott’s Bondi Grandstanding: Who Elected Fox News to Speak for Australia?
Picture Tony Abbott at the IPA lectern, Bondi’s blood barely dry, branding the killings “an attack on all Australians.” Before we accept the performance, it’s worth examining the script – and the stagehands. Abbott is not a former PM quietly offering reflection. He is a paid director of Fox Corporation, Rupert Murdoch’s US outrage sausage-machine, earning well over AU$500,000 a year. When he inflates tragedy into civilisational war, he speaks from inside the Fox wheelhouse, not from civic conscience.
The Midas Curse: How Mining Interests Own Australia’s Democracy
Scott Morrison waves coal in Parliament. The Minerals Council supplied it. He thought he was conducting. He was the instrument.
That moment wasn’t an aberration. It was testimony.
For decades, the mining lobby has achieved what every industry dreams of: complete bipartisan capture. Not just influence. Not just access. Ownership.
Today’s analysis maps the complete system; from dark money pipelines to media amplification, and asks whether we’re willing to build a movement powerful enough to break it.
The Great Immigration Scare, 2.0: Facts versus the Mining State Panic Machine
Guardian reporting shows Advance has pumped out at least 44 anti-immigration ads on Meta since the 2025 election campaign began, with more than 1.5 million impressions, drenched in talk of “mass immigration” and “threats” to Australian values. Some Liberal MPs have called the campaign “disturbing” and warned it will poison relations with migrant communities.
The Hypocrisy of Hanson: Howard’s Political Love Child
Pauline Hanson wags parliament for Mar-a-Lago while One Nation surges to 15%. From Tampa to Family Court, how Howard’s bastard child betrays her voters.
