Pauline Hanson
Australian politician
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| May 2025 | South Australian MLC Sarah Game quits One Nation, citing brand issues. This follows her mother Jennifer Game's resignation after being passed over for the party ticket in the upcoming South Australian state election. |
| 2025 | Party showed continued electoral support with 6.28% of House votes and 5.59% of Senate votes, though still holding zero House seats. |
| 2025 | One Nation ran 147 candidates for the House of Representatives and Senate teams for most states and territories in the federal election. |
| April 17 2025 | Rod Caddies and Phil Scott are serving as Members of the Legislative Council (MLC) for One Nation in Western Australia as of the current date. |
| March 2025 | Pauline Hanson publicly announced her party's policy platform, calling for Australia to withdraw from the United Nations, World Health Organisation, and World Economic Forum, while also proposing to cut funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme and abolish the National Indigenous Australians Agency and the Department of Climate Change. |
| 2025 | In the most recent election, One Nation received 3.81% of votes in the Legislative Assembly and 3.52% in the Legislative Council, reducing its Legislative Council representation to 1 seat. |
| 2024 | In the upcoming 2024 election, One Nation is projected to receive 248,334 votes, which would be 8.00% of the total, leading to the party winning 1 seat. |
| 2024 | One Nation collaborated with the Albanese government and minister Bill Shorten to reform the National Disability Insurance Scheme to address alleged misuse and control rising costs. |
| December 20 2024 | Tania Mihailuk announced her resignation from One Nation, following the earlier resignation of Western Australian MLC Ben Dawkins three days prior. |
| December 17 2024 | Ben Dawkins announced his resignation from One Nation. |
| November 1 2024 | The Federal Court ruled that Hanson's tweet against Mehreen Faruqi was an 'angry personal attack' unconnected with the issues raised, categorizing it as 'anti-Muslim or Islamophobic.' |
| August 2024 | Incumbent MP for Mirani, Stephen Andrew, announced his resignation from One Nation after the party did not endorse him as their candidate. |
| February 29 2024 | Independent Ben Dawkins announced he would be joining One Nation, becoming the first One Nation member in the Western Australian Legislative Council since the party lost all its seats in the 2021 Western Australian state election. |
| February 27 2024 | Craig Kelly, the National Director of the United Australia Party, joined One Nation and took the position of Federal Campaign Director for the party. |
| 2023 | Pauline Hanson sold the investment property she purchased in Maitland, New South Wales. |
| 2023 | One Nation participated in the Fadden by-election, running candidate Sandy Roach, and received 8.90% of the vote, placing third. |
| 2023 | One Nation increased their representation in the Legislative Council from two to three seats, with Mark Latham being re-elected and Tania Mihailuk filling the vacant seat. |
| 2023 | In the 2023 New South Wales Legislative Council elections, Pauline Hanson's One Nation garnered 273,496 votes, representing 5.92% of the votes and winning 1 seat. |
| 2023 | In the 2023 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections, Pauline Hanson's One Nation received 84,683 overall votes, amounting to 1.80% of the votes, without winning any seats. |
| December 2023 | Tania Mihailuk was announced as the next leader of One Nation in New South Wales. |
| October 2023 | One Nation campaigned against the Indigenous Voice to Parliament in the referendum, supporting the No vote; the referendum was ultimately defeated across all states and territories except the Australian Capital Territory. |
| August 2023 | Pauline Hanson intervened in the New South Wales state branch of One Nation, leading to the removal of Mark Latham as leader. |
| August 22 2023 | Mark Latham left One Nation to become an independent, followed by his colleague Rod Roberts. |
| January 28 2023 | One Nation contested the Narracan state supplementary election in Victoria, where candidate Casey Murphy received 6.04% of the vote. |
| January 17 2023 | Tania Mihailuk, a New South Wales MP, announced her intention to join Pauline Hanson's One Nation after previously representing the Labor Party and becoming an independent. |
| 2022 | Hanson tweeted that Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi should 'piss off back to Pakistan,' leading to Faruqi launching court proceedings against Hanson for breaching the Racial Discrimination Act. |
| 2022 | Hanson was re-elected to the Australian Senate at the federal election. |
| 2022 | In the lead-up to the 2022 state election, Pauline Hanson claimed that Glenn Druery was rigging the election in favor of the incumbent state Labor government of Daniel Andrews. |
| 2022 | In the 2022 Victorian Legislative Assembly election, Pauline Hanson's One Nation party garnered 10,323 votes, which was 0.28% of the overall vote, yet again failed to win any seats. |
| 2022 | In the 2022 South Australian House of Assembly elections, Pauline Hanson's One Nation received 28,664 votes, accounting for 2.63% of the vote, yet did not win any seats. |
| 2022 | At the 2022 federal election, One Nation received 727,464 votes (4.96%) in the House of Representatives and 644,744 votes (4.29%) in the Senate, without winning any seats. |
| December 2022 | Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell won a seat in the Victorian parliament during the 2022 Victorian state election, marking One Nation's first seat in the Victorian Legislative Council, representing the Northern Victoria Region. |
| July 2022 | Hanson stormed out of the Senate chamber during a ceremony that included the acknowledgment of traditional custodians and the raising of Aboriginal flags. |
| April 2022 | George Christensen, the Queensland MP for the division of Dawson, announced his decision to join One Nation and contest for the Senate in the upcoming Federal election. |
| April 2022 | Sarah Game made history by winning a seat in the South Australian legislative council, becoming One Nation's first member of the South Australian parliament during the 2022 South Australian state election. |
| 2021 | The Senate approved a motion tabled by Pauline Hanson calling on the federal government to reject the teaching of critical race theory in Australian schools. |
| 2021 | One Nation introduced legislation aimed at banning discrimination based on COVID-19 vaccination status in various sectors, including goods, services, employment, and education. The bill received support from 5 Liberal-National senators but ultimately was not passed. |
| 2021 | In the 2021 Legislative Council election, One Nation received 21,259 votes, which was 1.48% of the overall vote and maintained their 3 seats. |
| 2021 | The One Nation party participated in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly election, collecting 17,824 votes for 1.26% of the overall vote and did not gain any seats. |
| 2021 | One Nation MLC Mark Latham stated that vaccinated people should be exempt from Sydney's COVID-19 lockdown. |
| 2020 | Aboriginal artist Karla Dickens represented Pauline Hanson in a collage entitled 'Clown Nation' during the 2020 Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, showcased at the Art Gallery of South Australia as part of an exhibition named 'Monster Theatres'. |
| 2020 | During the 2020 election, One Nation received 204,316 votes, accounting for 7.12% of the overall votes, resulting in no seats won. |
| 2019 | Party continued its gradual recovery, gaining 3.08% of House votes and 5.40% of Senate votes, winning 2 Senate seats. |
| 2019 | Hanson publicly campaigned against the ban on climbing Uluru just before it came into effect. |
| 2019 | In the 2019 New South Wales Legislative Council elections, Pauline Hanson's One Nation secured 306,933 votes, representing 6.90% of the votes and winning 2 seats. |
| 2019 | In the 2019 New South Wales Legislative Assembly elections, Pauline Hanson's One Nation received 49,948 overall votes, which was 1.10% of the votes, resulting in no seats won. |
| 2019 | Writer Hans-Georg Betz characterized One Nation and Pauline Hanson as early radical right-wing populists who effectively mobilized resentment against the intellectual elite, foreseeing a trend that would become prominent in the 21st century. |
| 2019 | One Nation called for the abolition of full preferential voting in favor of optional preferential voting at House of Representatives elections, shortly after Scott Morrison announced that the Liberal Party would preference One Nation behind Labor in several seats for the 2019 federal election. |
| 2019 | Hanson received widespread condemnation in the Australian media for her claims that domestic violence victims routinely lie to the Family Court, prompting the Law Council of Australia to call for the abandonment of a federal parliamentary inquiry into the family law system. |
| September 18 2019 | The Liberal government announced that Hanson would co-chair a parliamentary inquiry into family law. |
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