Tag: One Nation

A darkly comic editorial illustration showing a scoreboard reading ONE NATION 1, LIBERAL PARTY 0, DEMOCRACY: ONGOING, with the word ONGOING struck through. Below, grey-suited figures hold blank newspapers before a shuttered regional newsagent and a featureless television broadcaster.

The Scorecard

May 12, 2026 · 1 Comment ·

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.

Satirical Farrer election scene with oversized ballot box

The Front Fell Off The Coalition

May 11, 2026May 11, 2026 · 1 Comment ·

Written in tribute to the late great John Clarke and his long-suffering straight man Bryan Dawe, whose two chairs and a clipboard remain the gold standard of Australian political satire. The occasion: One Nation’s historic first win in the House of Representatives, the Coalition’s nine-point-eight per cent primary vote in a seat held since 1949, and an exit strategy that turns out to be no exit at all. Going forward.

A political campaign graphic for the Division of Farrer in 2026. The background shows an aerial view of the Murray River and agricultural plains. Centered is a parchment-style map overlay depicting a tug-of-war between "Coalition" and "One Nation" figures over a large money bag. The text reads: "Farrer 2026: From 77 years of Coalition rule to One Nation’s first lower-house seat. But who owns the party now?"

That Was the Week That Was, Part 3: “The Farrer fracture:

May 10, 2026 · 2 Comments ·

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?

Satirical editorial illustration showing a politician speaking at an outback podium labelled "For the Battlers" while a giant billionaire figure in shadow pulls puppet strings from behind. A private jet sits in the red dirt.

One Nation’s battler lie unravels

May 2, 2026 · 3 Comments ·

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.

Satirical illustration of the Liberal Party’s glass cliff — a woman in white stands on cracking glass as blue-suited men turn their backs toward a crumbling boys’ clubhouse, while angry voters stream toward a distant populist figure.

The Boys Are Back in Town: How the Liberal Party’s Glass Cliff Claimed Its First Female Scalp

February 13, 2026 · 5 Comments ·

Sussan Ley lasted nine months. The glass cliff, the men’s rights vote, and the conservative faction that never wanted a woman leader — Urban Wronski connects the dots.

Abstract representation of bacterial infection spreading across Australian political landscape with corporate symbols

The Blue Bacillus: How the Liberal Party’s Corporate DNA Became a Fatal Infection

January 22, 2026 · 10 Comments ·

The Coalition’s polling collapse reveals a terminal decline. When corporate DNA meets authoritarian legislation, democracy itself becomes the casualty.

We Need to Talk About Kevin

December 9, 2025 · 5 Comments ·

Australian men are defecting to One Nation in record numbers. This isn’t hardship—it’s status dislocation marketed as political rescue. Meet Kevin.

**Alt text:** Split-screen political cartoon showing stark inequality. Top half: Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart sit atop a melting golden iceberg in front of Parliament House, clinking champagne glasses under a banner reading “Meritocracy & Mimosas.” A butler fans them with shredded welfare applications. Bottom half: elderly pensioners huddle in a flooded basement. One stirs instant noodles with a Centrelink rejection letter; another warms hands over a flickering gas bill. Champagne drips from the ceiling above but never reaches them. The cartoon contrasts elite indulgence with pensioner hardship.

The Hypocrisy of Hanson: Howard’s Political Love Child

November 8, 2025November 9, 2025 · 7 Comments ·

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.

Alt Text: "John Howard during Tampa crisis and Pauline Hanson in fish shop representing political appropriation of One Nation rhetoric"

Ask Not What You Can Do for One Nation—But What Has One Nation Ever Done for Anybody?

October 24, 2025October 24, 2025 · 2 Comments ·

If Helen of Troy had the face that launched a thousand ships, Pauline Hanson has the face that launched a thousand chips. But the real story isn’t about Hanson at all—it’s about Long John Howard, who stole her racism in the 1990s, laundered it through the language of sovereignty and security, and left both major parties trapped in a political theatre he built thirty years ago.
One Nation polls at 14% between elections but collapsed to 6.4% in May—the evergreen boost that never makes it to the ballot box. Yet even with Anthony Albanese’s historic landslide, Labor still governs within Howard’s frame, still talks tough on “border security,” still uses his language. The government changes. The script endures.
From Barnaby Joyce playing pantaloon to Hanson serving up warmed-over resentment with extra chicken salt, this is how we all ended up living in Howard’s Australia.

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