Look closely at One Nation’s website. What’s no longer there is most telling
It’s among the documents scrubbed in the past week. You can, however, retrieve it on the Wayback Machine internet archive.
Trump’s Vice-President JD Vance had written to Tehran to propose peace talks, but Trump abruptly reassigned him on Friday (Australian time). He’s instructed to focus on “Massive Corruption and Crime taking place in Democrat run Cities and States”. He added: “We don’t need a deal with Iran.” There is no solution to the global fuel problem in prospect.
Where does this leave Trump’s Australian brand ambassador, Pauline Hanson and her party? Did Hanson apply any better judgment to the Trump-Netanyahu war on Iran? Of course not. She fully endorsed the war. Hanson issued a statement on her party’s website on June 26 headlined “Pauline Hanson Praises Trump’s Strength on Iran and Slams Albanese for Weak National Leadership”. It concluded: “Global peace depends on strong leaders who take action – something she says is missing in Australia today.“
Trump last year published an image of himself as the Pope. Hanson apparently thought it was serious. Because she assigned papal infallibility to the American leader, knelt before him as a devoted acolyte and kissed his ring at Mar-a-Lago.
When my colleague Paul Sakkal asked her in a June interview whether Trump had done anything wrong, she replied that she couldn’t think of anything. Not a thing. The fact he’d imposed hostile tariffs on Australian steel and aluminium was a perfectly good idea, apparently.
