Media release – Pauline Hanson, 28 April 2022
One Nation to target left-leaning Liberals in key seats
One Nation preferences will target left-leaning Liberals in some key seats in a bid to protect Australian values and ensure strong conservative representation in the new Parliament.
One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said her plan to target Bass in Tasmania, held by left-leaning Liberal Bridget Archer, had been her first shot across the bow.
“The Liberals need a wake-up call and I’m more than happy to provide it,” Senator Hanson said. “They are no longer the conservative party Australians knew. We need to clean out a small number of left-leaning Liberals who masquerade as conservatives. Instead of talking to me about preferences, the media should be asking Scott Morrison why he is prepared to hand Jacqui Lambie the balance of power, someone who hates the Liberals and votes consistently against them.”
Senator Hanson said that in addition to Bass, One Nation would also target Tim Wilson in Goldstein, Trent Zimmerman in North Sydney, Helen Haines in Indi, and James Stevens in Sturt.
“Scott Morrison has surrendered independent Australian climate policy to these left-leaning Liberals, who are obviously in the wrong party,” she said. “He needs to be reminded that conservative Australians feel betrayed by his lurch to the left with net-zero emissions by 2050, and the left-leaning Liberals who pushed him there need to be removed.”
Senator Hanson said One Nation would work with the Nationals in some seats to negate the loss of seats held by left-leaning Liberals.
“I think we are all in broad agreement that a Labor-Green government would be a disaster for Australia,” she said. “Unfortunately, left-leaning Liberals aren’t giving conservative Australian voters much reason to hope their party will act differently to Labor on issues such as immigration, the housing crisis, religious freedom, critical race theory, gender reassignment, trans women competing in women’s sports and climate change.
“The Nationals and their supporters won’t be happy about the Liberals’ lurch to the left on these issues either, which is why I’m prepared to work with them in some seats to offset the loss of Coalition seats held by left-leaning Liberals. Conservative voters who support Australian values will not be silenced and must have representatives who will stand with them on these issues.”
Media release – Senator Jacqui Lambie, 28 April 2022
TASSIE ‘DEVIL’ RESPONDS TO ‘DEAL’ PREFERENCE CLAIMS
“Pauline’s got her facts wrong. There’s no deals done.
“Questions about Liberal Party preferences are for the Liberal Party to answer. Just like questions about who One Nation preference are for One Nation to answer.
“If Pauline wants to tell Australians that she’d rather have a Labor Government than a Liberal Government, that’s completely up to her. It just shows her party stands for nothing except getting more money from the taxpayer. Anyone can see it’s insincere.
“As for us being ‘green-left’, Pauline doesn’t know what she’s talking about. I vote with the Government 50 per cent of the time. The Greens vote with the Government 5 per cent of the time. I don’t know what makes me green-left other than not agreeing with Pauline all the time?
“But she’s right. I don’t agree that we should ban autistic children from schools, like she does. I don’t agree we should cut the take-home pay of low-income workers, like she does. I don’t agree that people in public housing are drug-addicted alcoholics, like she does.
“I don’t agree that the Port Arthur massacre was a government conspiracy. She thinks that.
“I certainly don’t think Tasmanians appreciate our gun laws being sold off to a foreign lobbyist by a Queensland-based politician. We know that’s what Pauline wants to do with the balance of power. It’s what her party says on tape, when they think nobody’s listening.
“Tasmanian voters decide their own preferences. Queenslanders like One Nation don’t get to decide for anybody here.
“For all her talk about sticking up for freedom, Pauline’s spat the dummy because she wants to control what the Liberal Party puts on its how-to-vote cards. From the champion of respecting individual choice, it’s a bit rich. It won’t fly down here. She’d know that if she knew us.
“Tasmanians can smell a fake.”
Quotes attributable to Sen Jacqui Lambie. The JLN will not be commenting further on this matter.
