Show Notes
She's home for one night between flights, and Senator Pauline Hanson isn't pulling any punches. Luke Bona sits down with the One Nation leader for a full solo interview, starting with yesterday's nationwide student walkout against her and One Nation — and her blunt response to it, including a secret recording of a teacher she says abused students in class, which she says she's about to release.
From there: whether she could genuinely become Prime Minister off the back of One Nation's poll surge, how she'd handle Donald Trump one-on-one, the AUKUS tightrope between the US and China, Albanese's awkward melon moment with Japan's PM, her friendship with Gina Rinehart, the real cost of Nauru, overtime tax reform, a push for a national truckies' apprenticeship scheme, and the fish and chip shop she ran for a decade before politics.
Guests: Senator Pauline Hanson (Leader, Pauline Hanson's One Nation)
⚠️ Contains a protester's sign quoting strong language (not repeated in these notes) and a brief, non-graphic reference to self-harm in immigration detention.
00:00 Welcome back, Senator Hanson 00:34 The National Union of Students walkout 01:29 The high school protest sign that went viral 04:53 Are the kids being led, or thinking for themselves? 05:19 "I'm going to release it" — the secret teacher recording 06:11 Marked down from an A to a C- for writing about Hanson 07:26 Should classrooms run CCTV? 10:11 Could Hanson become PM? The poll surge to 26% 11:26 Targeting Coalition seats at the next election 14:07 Her relationship with Matt Canavan 15:33 Albanese's melon gaffe with Japan's PM 19:12 How Hanson would handle Donald Trump 21:20 AUKUS, China and Australia's "two masters" 25:16 A national truckies' apprenticeship scheme 28:23 Overtime tax and the true cost of Nauru 31:31 On Gina Rinehart: "no one buys me" 34:20 Left school at 15 — Hanson's first job 41:26 A legend: Fred Brophy's boxing tent
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