What Sort of Party is One Nation? By Loiuse Clegg in The Spectator.

The One Nation constitution names Pauline Hanson as party president for as long as she wishes. When she resigns, she appoints her successor. The national executive can disband branches and remove office-holders. State leaders, even candidates, or local branch executives do not emerge victorious from a vote, preselection or party-room vote. They are simply announced by Hanson.

 

 

We have watched some of this unfold at close quarters in our region. New One Nation supporters have attended meetings intended to establish something resembling federal and state electoral conferences. One Nation flying squads have arrived from Queensland with kooky speeches and zero knowledge of the electorate. A local executive was formed, only for its members to resign within weeks when they realised Queensland headquarters demanded total control. The complaint from a few who attended several meetings is that, for a so-called grassroots party, it has no interest whatsoever in the grassroots. …

None of this means One Nation will fail at coming elections. It may succeed spectacularly. A tightly controlled party is agile: it can move quickly and enforce a message the majors cannot because of internal processes. The cracks will appear in time, when locals don’t get a say, centralised vetting is a disaster, disagreements become public and rogue members of parliament leave the tent.

This is a party that promises to return power to the people, yet is conspicuously designed so that its own people — leaders, MPs and members — have no power. Long term, this is not strength. It is a house of cards.

Lack of staff, from Adam Creighton.

One Nation is criticised for ‘lack of policy detail’.

This is the 2026 allocation of Personal Staff to parties and leaders. (Allocated at Anthony Albanese’s discretion). Outrageously biased against ON.

 

Read David Archibald’s experience with One Nation here.