Cobber,

Your maths fail is due to one nation getting 1.2% of quota and a hefty flow of preferences. Using your same maths the Greens would have only got 3 senate seats. While a DD favours the minor parties, the new senate preference laws doesn't. The estimated number of cross bench senators if the preference laws were not changed was 18 not 14. It also didn't help that both the liberals and Labor did poorly, getting 65% of first preferences.

The main reasons that one nation did so well are the concerns by voters of the rise of Islamic extremism that Labor and the Greens are pretending don't exist, and the general trend of all parties to the left which leaves a niche for One Nation.

Hi,
This bloke worked for what is arguably the worst PM we have had a liar who could not lay straight in bed so his opinion is about as useful as Abbotts.
Hanson's and the two idiots one of whom is from his public utterances is certifiable the other should never had been on the ticket because of legal problems which may see him jailed.
Hanson is smart,a kind of rat cunning she knows suckers when she sees them,unfortunately in Rural areas there are a lot, look at the amount who vote for the Nats,also racists and ignorant,the same people want Abbott back.
TBH Hanson aint got a clue but at least she got a motze from the taxpayer maybe she can open another Fish and Chip shop or buy another Ranch,why we elect these idiots I have no idea,and why anyone would take seriously anything said by a political adviser the the failure Abbott and the present disaster Turnbull I don't know none of them have a clue

Politicians and political parties are an anachronism.

We have been nearly 16 weeks without a government, and if politicians are paid on average $3k per week, then politicians were paid nearly $50,000 to do nothing for 16 weeks.

That $50,000 would be the wage many people receive after working a whole year, yet politicians got that money to do nothing.

Time to throw most politicians out, and bring in citizen's assemblies instead.

Posted by *Runner* Tuesday, 30 August 2016 11:25:47 AM

" ... so glad Hanson got Turnbulls votes. Had Abbott still been pm she would of got a lot less. Thanks to Turnbull we now have a more conservatives Senate. The clock is ticking for Turnbull. Often you reap what you sow. ... "

So, let me get this straight *Runner* Are you telling us that Pauline, despite her many shortcomings, is a Christian Soldier because above and beyond all things, she cannot abide a Black Muslim Poofter.

Please do explain if I have failed to understand you.

August 27, 2003

-Background: Abbott's role in helping ruin Hanson
-Background: PM doubts on Hanson sentence
-Background: Hanson becomes Beattie's big worry
-Background: Hanson in high spirits as support mounts
-Background: One Nation a founders a "bunch of dopes", trial told
-Background: Keep her politics out of it, court told
-Background: Hanson weeps as trial starts

Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott last night apologised for not fully disclosing his involvement in a $100,000 "slush fund" devised in 1998 to bring down One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.

p 192 - Consider Your Verdict - "...it is my belief that Tony Abbott, terry Sharples and Peter Beattie may have all committed breaches of the Criminal Code..." (David Ettridge - 2004)

30 July 2013, 5:55pm
The Australian Federal Police are also currently considering allegations of Abbott’s 1998 unlawful activity in light of a submission and evidence supplied by Ettridge to the Attorney General, Mark Dreyfus, some weeks ago, where Ettridge sought a Parliamentary enquiry into Abbott’s involvement with the Australians for Honest Politics Trust and also for the offence of misfeasance in public office.

His submission was referred by the Attorney General to the Federal Police for examination.

From: The Drum By Jonathan Green
Updated 11 Sep 2014, 3:08pm.
What was known was again known. What had been guessed at, hinted at, was again denied. And presumably left to continue its furtive life as hint, guesswork and smear.

This business has been emblematic: to some it was the truth about sex, corruption and lies that the leftist mainstream of the Australian media chose not to tell. Or lacked the guts to confront.

As for me...

I will dance a jig in Smith Street Mall wearing my pink tu-tu and bright green fluffy slippers that stand waiting in readiness for the day Terry Sharples rolls over and spills his guts..and it isn't too far off I hear.

Whose to blame for Pauline Hanson?

Successive govts and politicians whose loyalties lie to agendas most of the Australian people know nothing about and cant believe when told anyway.

Politicians who alliterates lie elsewhere than on Australia, thats who is responsible for Pauline Hanson.

But if you want to see her got rid off, well you might get lucky.

I Would not be surprised to learn she gets caught with child porn on her computer some day or shoots herself in the head two or three times with her wrong hand after ' having been known to have been depressed in the days leading up to the event"