The Aporia
At the Conservative Political Action Conference in Brisbane, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson criticized Opposition Leader Angus Taylor as a "smarmy management consultant" unfit to lead and lambasted the Liberal Party for its past actions, including signing up for net zero emissions targets and mishandling immigration. Despite her history with the Coalition—she was briefly jailed in the early 2000s due to alleged improprieties she later said were based on false convictions—Hanson offered to set aside personal grievances to form a government after the next election if it means removing Labor from power. Hanson also promised to establish a royal commission into net zero and criticized the Liberal Party for creating the eSafety Commissioner, which she views as unnecessary regulation.
While reserving her strongest criticism for the Albanese government, Senator Hanson also took sharp aim at the Liberal Party for its previous commitments to climate targets and for creating the eSafety Commissioner.