{"id":728160,"date":"2026-06-10T20:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/728160\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T20:48:23","slug":"hundreds-protest-as-one-nation-leader-pauline-hanson-greets-supporters-at-perth-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/728160\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds protest as One Nation leader Pauline Hanson greets supporters at Perth event"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hundreds of people have protested outside a One Nation event in Perth as Pauline Hanson told supporters Labor seats in the west were high on her “hit list”.<\/p>\n

Senator Hanson told supporters the party was surging in popularity because it is the only one speaking out against what she called “mass migration”.<\/p>\n

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Protesters shouted chants against racism and One Nation. (ABC News: Andrew O’Connor)<\/p>\n

Police said about 400 people gathered to protest outside Senator Hanson’s sundowner event at a cafe in Perth’s eastern suburb of Midland.<\/p>\n

They chanted “Pauline Hanson go to hell, take your racists there as well”, and “migrants allowed, but racists are not”.<\/p>\n

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There was a police presence at the protest. (ABC News: Andrew O’Connor)<\/p>\n

A smaller group of counter-protesters chanted back, “We can’t hear you”.<\/p>\n

Recent polls have indicated One Nation is the most popular party, ahead of Labor and the Coalition.<\/p>\n

ABC not allowed into event<\/p>\n

The ABC was not allowed into Senator Hanson’s event, but in a live feed of her speech she told supporters the country had been “driven into the ground by politicians and bureaucrats”, but change was coming at the ballot box.<\/p>\n

“It clearly now shows that people want One Nation. They want what we are offering,” she said.<\/p>\n

Senator Hanson said she was offering “freedom” and that her party was pro-business and tough on crime. She also said One Nation would offer a route to home ownership for those wanting to get on the property ladder as she criticised the government for leaving people “taxed to the hilt”.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Pauline Hanson met with supporters on Wednesday night. (ABC News: Andrew O’Connor)<\/p>\n

She appeared to try to dismiss accusations of racism levelled at her through her decades-long career, saying she embraced those migrants who assimilated.<\/p>\n

She said One Nation’s stance was against “mass migration”.<\/p>\n

“[It] has destroyed not only our standard of living and people owning their own home or haven’t been able to put a roof over their head,” she said.<\/p>\n

One Nation question returns to trouble Zempilas’s Liberals<\/a><\/p>\n

As Basil Zempilas flirts with One Nation, will the right-wing populist party drag the WA Liberals down again, or will it become a life raft on the way to a political resurrection?<\/p>\n

“We’ve actually seen people come into this country that are not compatible, they shouldn’t be here and they shouldn’t have been allowed in the first place.”<\/p>\n

To loud cheers, Senator Hanson said: “And I don’t have to apologise for saying that.”<\/p>\n

“Because that’s why you are supporting One Nation. We are the only ones to stand up for that,” she said.<\/p>\n

She said migration numbers should be dramatically cut back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Labor seats targeted<\/p>\n

The One Nation leader promised to target Labor seats at the next election.<\/p>\n

“There’s a couple there from Western Australia, so they’re going to be on our hit list,” she said.<\/p>\n

PM plays the long game in face of One Nation threat<\/a><\/p>\n

The government is playing a long game in responding to the surge of support for One Nation. It has little other choice.<\/p>\n

“I’m going to get rid of those useless ones that have done nothing but destroy this nation. We will take our nation back.”<\/p>\n

One Nation state MP and WA leader Rod Caddies said it was the start of a movement for change in Western Australia.<\/p>\n

“Just remember in Western Australia tonight you are a part of the crowd from the moment we are going to move forward,” he said.<\/p>\n

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Rod Caddies hopes One Nation will win lower house seats. (Supplied)<\/p>\n

“They said we weren’t going to get anyone elected at the last state election and the last federal election. We proved them wrong, now we’re going to prove them wrong.<\/p>\n

“We’re going to win lower house seats in Western Australia at the next federal election. And we’re going to cover every part of this state.”<\/p>\n

Liberals open to deal<\/p>\n

New Liberal Party national president Tony Abbott has supported preference deals with One Nation, and Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has indicated he is open to a deal with the party.<\/p>\n

WA Opposition Leader Basil Zempilas has said he would be willing to preference One Nation above Labor on how-to-vote cards in some electorates.<\/p>\n

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The protest was organised by WA Socialists.\u00a0 (ABC News: Courtney Withers)<\/p>\n

The protesters had converged outside the venue well before the event started.<\/p>\n

Some carried signs reading “Perth says no to Hanson”, “blame billionaires, not migrants” and “Pauline Hanson racists out”.<\/p>\n

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A car is seen near the protest with the text “F*** Pauline”. (ABC News: Courtney Withers)<\/p>\n

A car was parked outside the event with ‘F*** Pauline’ spray-painted on the side. Police searched the car’s boot and issued the driver a move-on notice.<\/p>\n

Senator Hanson is due to give a speech at a $60-a-head “hour of power” breakfast event Thursday in Midland, hosted by the Swan Chamber of Commerce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hundreds of people have protested outside a One Nation event in Perth as Pauline Hanson told supporters Labor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44,86,45,9570,9569],"class_list":["post-728160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news","tag-perth-news","tag-wa-news","tag-wa-politics","tag-wa-pols"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728160","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=728160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}