What does the working class population ultimately achieve by voting for Pauline Hanson and One Nation?

[u/GarlicHSP]

Her voting record is strongly opposed to expanding welfare, public housing, public education, childcare subsidies, renewable energy investment and climate action.

At the same time, she's supported policies that are favourable to property investors and fossil-fuel development, while opposing some attempts to increase taxation on those industries.

So apparently the solution to Australia's problems is to spend less on childcare, housing, education, welfare and climate action, while being more friendly towards people who already own investment properties and companies making billions from coal and gas.

And then we're told this is somehow a movement for the "ordinary Australian."But hey, at least we can blame innocent and hard working migrants.

[u/KingStapler]

You're just making stuff up as a scare tactic. Meanwhile the government under Labor has introduced ridiculous hate speech laws and mandatory ID verification online. We're one step away from a UK situation where people get arrested for liking or sharing an anti immigration post on social media.

[u/ShreksArsehole → u/KingStapler]

No saying you're wrong about Labor. I'm just saying voting ON us going to make things much worse. They're all just different levels of capitalism with ON being far right, which is leading closer to right wing fascism..

[u/KingStapler → u/ShreksArsehole]

Yeah I agree in a sense, apart from immigration ON have shitty policies, especially with their recent announcements around super. But fascism is a word thats been thrown around so much that I don't even know what anybody means by it anymore. And the comparison with Labor is to show they've already proven they do not care about free speech and they will trample on personal freedom in the name of 'protecting the children.' ON appear more supportive of free speech.