{"id":760786,"date":"2026-06-26T04:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760786\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:13:09","slug":"wayne-swan-likens-hanson-to-trump-and-says-labor-must-stop-one-nations-dark-dystopic-picture-of-the-future-labor-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/760786\/","title":{"rendered":"Wayne Swan likens Hanson to Trump and says Labor must stop One Nation\u2019s \u2018dark, dystopic picture of the future\u2019 | Labor party"},"content":{"rendered":"

Labor must not allow increasingly authoritarian trends in Australian politics to become \u201cnormalised\u201d, ALP president Wayne Swan has warned, likening Pauline Hanson\u2019s attacks on multiculturalism<\/a> and journalists to Donald Trump\u2019s hostile takeover of American civic life.<\/p>\n

\u201cA toxic seed blooms into a garden of noxious weeds when we stop gardening,\u201d the former treasurer said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Swan told a meeting of Labor\u2019s national executive the party needed to resist One Nation at the next election like it did the former opposition leader, Peter Dutton, at the 2025 poll, preventing \u201ca dark, dystopic picture of the future\u201d becoming a reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople shrug. It gets normalised. Then it gets implemented. Then it just exists,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow we can see the true nature of the threat we all face and we will not let it become the new normal. We will not shrug our shoulders.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen overseas that it is harder to resist this dark brand of politics after it has taken root. Ask our friends across the Pacific. In cities like Minneapolis and Chicago, where they have seen the national guard deployed against their own people.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ahead of handing over the Labor presidency at next month\u2019s national conference, Swan said Hanson\u2019s plans to shutdown SBS and move the ABC to a subscription model, and her push for Australia to be a \u201cmonoculture\u201d<\/a> were ominous.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was all bad enough. And then she revealed her true colours when the culture war camouflage faded and the billionaire agenda of her patron, Gina Rinehart came to the fore.<\/p>\n

\u201cHanson said wage rises had gone too far. She said it was too hard for a boss to sack a worker. That the gender pay gap wasn\u2019t real.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the thread that connects Rinehart, Hanson and Trump. Inequality lowers living standards. It poisons society. And then the power of big money threatens democracy itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swan said Labor\u2019s membership had dropped from almost 57,000 people in 2022 to about 51,500 in 2024, describing the current target of 65,000 members by 2029 as essential.<\/p>\n

Swan is due to be succeeded as ALP president by former Gillard government minister Kate Ellis in July.<\/p>\n

The major parties are grappling with how to push back on Hanson\u2019s surge in support, with polling showing One Nation ahead of Labor and the Coalition on primary votes, and Hanson even leading as preferred prime minister.<\/p>\n

Hanson has struggled to define her plans to replace multiculturalism and attacked journalists for asking for an explanation in Canberra this week.<\/p>\n

The NSW Labor premier, Chris Minns, told ABC radio on Friday Hanson\u2019s prescriptions for the country were \u201cbullshit\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw her on radio the other day saying \u2018we don\u2019t want sharia law, we don\u2019t want multiple marriages, we don\u2019t want gangs with machetes\u2019, as if, if you support multiculturalism, you must be for sharia law.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s complete garbage. It\u2019s the sort of bullshit she\u2019s been peddling for some time and it\u2019s just not true.\u201d<\/p>\n

Minns called for Labor to \u201cget in the ring\u201d and fight for the success of modern, multicultural Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labor must not allow increasingly authoritarian trends in Australian politics to become \u201cnormalised\u201d, ALP president Wayne Swan has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-760786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760786","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=760786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}