SMH · Paul Sakkal · Sunday 22 March 2026
The federal Coalition is planning to attack One Nation's credibility by promoting economic reform and exposing the costs of Hanson's zero-immigration policy, hoping to avoid a South Australia-style wipeout at the federal level.
The Coalition's plan to demolish One Nation with economic literacy is like a bloke who let the garden go for a decade announcing he'll fix it with a lawnmower. Hanson's zero-immigration pitch isn't credible because she did the research — it's credible because the Liberals left a policy vacuum so vast it developed its own weather system. You don't beat populism by explaining why it's wrong. You beat it by offering something people actually want to vote for, which requires having thought of something.