Redbridge-Accent Research seat-by-seat projection<\/a> showed One Nation could win more than 50 seats at an election.<\/p>\nIn the wake of the polling, Ms Hanson told Sky News\u2019 Sunday Agenda that she believed she was capable of leading the country as prime minister.<\/p>\n
\u201cDo I want to be Prime Minister? Well, I tell you what, I won\u2019t knock the job because I believe that I have the ability to do it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to underestimate myself or say, ‘no, I can\u2019t do it,’ because you know, have a look at what we\u2019ve got now. That\u2019s why we\u2019re in a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Hanson added that running for a seat in the House of Representatives, rather than the Senate, was \u201cin consideration\u201d for the 2028 election.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is in consideration by all means, it is in the mix but I’m not making a decision now… It will be based on political strategy as well,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ms Hanson went on to describe the Albanese government as the \u201cworst\u201d she had ever seen in her 30 years of politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see the destruction that’s happened here. We’ve lost over 1400 industries, manufacturing, 50,000 small businesses gone insolvent,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn’t the country that I grew up in. So, whether it’s Pauline Hanson as Prime Minister … we’ve got someone else to take on that job.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked if she was confident she had the team around her to form a competent cabinet, Ms Hanson said, “You bet I do”.<\/p>\n
\u201cI (have) a great team around me and even those members of parliament that I have now, they’re great, down to earth,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s marvellous. You know, Barnaby Joyce, he’s got a spring in his step. He’s really happy to be part of the party. He’s got his voice, he is out there.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd here’s a man who is former deputy prime minister of the nation, the portfolios that he’s had. \u2026 We’ve got a great team.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve got Cory Bernardi for South Australia. What a great leader he is. A lot of good people. Don’t underestimate David Farley either, who won the seat of Farrer.\u201d<\/p>\n
Under the latest modelling, One Nation would form official opposition if an election were held today, winning 53 seats compared to just 12 for the Coalition.<\/p>\n
One Nation has also emerged as the most trusted political party to deal with immigration, on the back of a policy to cap visas at 130,000 per year.<\/p>\n
Asked whether her policy would drive up the cost of age care, due to an aging population without enough workers, Ms Hanson said housing was a bigger issue.<\/p>\n
\u201cMass migration means that the fact is we’ve got, you know, lack of housing, so what’s more important?\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don’t care about people living in their cars, families in tents in their caravans? So that’s no problem to you whatsoever? Well, that is an issue for me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Labor’s Cabinet Secretary Andrew Charlton recently acknowledg One Nation’s surge, but denied they were a viable political alternative.<\/p>\n
“It’s clear that One Nation’s vote has been rising in the polls, there’s no denying that. That’s a phenomenon that we’ve seen all around the world,” he told Sunday Agenda.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The challenge with One Nation is they are very good at pointing out grievances. They are much less good at providing solutions.<\/p>\n
“We’ll have to see what happens between now and the next election, but clearly the best strategy for Labor is to present real solutions to people.”<\/p>\n
Mr Charlton denied that his language was “putting One Nation down” after Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the party appealed to people’s “darkest forces”.<\/p>\n
Ms Hanson on Sunday argued that One Nation was attracting votes from all sides of politics, not just from the Coalition.<\/p>\n
“It’s not just about Coalition, it’s about Labor, it is about the Greens, it is about everyone,” Ms Hanson said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I was sitting here just waiting to do the interview, a fellow walks past and he said, ‘oh, it was me!’ and he comes back.<\/p>\n
“He said, ‘You’ve got to get in there and make change to this country’. He said, ‘I’ve been a Labor voter’. He said, ‘No more. I’m not voting for them again’.<\/p>\n
“I hear this constantly all the time. (People) are hurting so much. They want truth, honesty, they want clear policies. If you think I haven’t got policies, go and look at my website.<\/p>\n
“So that’s another furphy that they tell people. ‘I don’t have policies.’ They pick up my policies all the time.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has declared she\u2019s ready to be the Prime Minister of Australia and is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705274,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,8931,63,44,60504,14754,112],"class_list":["post-705273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-auspol","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-one-nation","tag-pauline-hanson","tag-poll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}