{"id":815689,"date":"2026-07-22T03:11:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815689\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:11:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:11:09","slug":"australia-news-live-sydney-developer-bypasses-council-250-home-approval-gatto-tax-for-victorian-unit-buyers-labor-racks-up-millions-in-gambling-donations-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/815689\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia news LIVE: Sydney developer bypasses council 250-home approval; \u2018Gatto tax\u2019 for Victorian unit buyers; Labor racks up millions in gambling donations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pauline Hanson has said she wanted the job of prime minister, just as any Australian would want to run the country for a day or two.<\/p>\n<p>The One Nation leader, who has previously sent mixed signals over whether she wanted to<a class=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/politics\/federal\/hanson-says-she-hasn-t-changed-australia-just-caught-up-with-her-but-she-s-not-sold-on-leading-it-20260603-p603nc.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> lead the nation<\/a>, has been asked again on Brisbane\u2019s 4BC radio about her aspirations.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. \" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/9ad23f9476f188fb4449446c65407122641b1090.webp\"  class=\"sc-d34e428-1 ldCIuB\"\/>One Nation leader Pauline Hanson. Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019d be a hell of a job,\u201d Hanson said, before turning the question on interviewer Gary Hardgrave, who previously served as an assistant minister to John Howard.<\/p>\n<p>Asked again whether she wanted to be prime minister, Hanson said: \u201cIf I can make a difference in this country, yes, I do. Because everyone out there would answer themselves, yes, give me the job for a day or two, and I\u2019ll tell you what I\u2019d do about this country and try and clean it up. So who wouldn\u2019t?\u201c<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you got passion about what\u2019s happening, and you feel for the people out there living in poverty and the despair and everything like that, of course you\u2019d want to be prime minister if you have an opportunity to actually turn it around and make a difference,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson has said she wanted the job of prime minister, just as any Australian would want to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":815690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-815689","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\/815689","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=815689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/815689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/815690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=815689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=815689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=815689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}