According to several opinion polls, Pauline Hanson is now Australian electors’ most-preferred (prospective) Prime Ministerial candidate.
Electors currently drawn to Ms Hanson – or to any populist politician who purports to be the champion” of the “battlers”/ the “forgotten”/ “everyday” Australians – ought read this sentence, slowly:
If recent events in the USA have taught us anything, it is that we can rely on parties such as One Nation to reflect the concerns of the “common man”, but in power, they represent the billionaires who fund them.
The quoted sentence comprises more than one half of a letter written by Steve Amesbury of Nowra, NSW.
Its second, final sentence:
The concerns, wants and needs of those who vote for them seem to disappear into the void the minute they are voted into power.
The letter was published in the “Your Say” section of The Conversation on 13 June 2026.
David Rowe’s cartoon was published in The Australian Financial Review on 29 May 2026.
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