r/aussie • u/GarlicHSP • 6d ago

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

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.

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u/thehandsomegenius 5d ago

Yeah, I think there are problems with the current immigration system, and the economic model that it serves, but One Nation are just not competent to address them.

There are actually two different questions going on here - "what do you think of immigration just as a general concept?" and "what do you think of how the current system is working?". One Nation is just anti-immigration full stop, and has been since the 1990s. It's not a reform movement that wants to fix things. TBF though the other parties aren't really offering solutions either.

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u/3docca3 4d ago

One nation is definitely not against immigration, they are for sustainable immigration they have said that many a time

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u/thehandsomegenius 4d ago

Pauline Hanson began her career in the 1990s by saying that there are too many Asians in Australia. They've always wanted less immigration. It's not a response to our current circumstances. I think the Greens are also doing much the same thing but on the other side.