Currently, its website claims that donations have come from over 77,000 Australians. Ms Hanson has assured that the funds donated to the campaign will be used exclusively for campaign materials, particularly billboard, television and online advertisements. If we take this claim on face value, it is safe to assume that some of those millions will also be spent on the minuscule wages that the party is paying its Filipino virtual assistants. Yes, members heard me correctly. The party has been outsourcing the task of churning out online promotional material to overseas contractors.

For a party whose major policy position—and I use the term "policy" very loosely here—is to secure jobs for Australians, the fact that it is paying workers in the Philippines A$4 an hour to do its grunt work exposes one of its glaringly obvious contradictions. This arrangement is ideal for the party to further muddy social media algorithms with its propaganda and take advantage of inequalities as a means of securing cheap labour.

To make matters worse, an ABC investigation showed how thousands of fake AI social media accounts are using Australian politics to manipulate users—the majority of which were of Pauline Hanson, showing her in a positive light, including one with an AI-generated image of Pauline giving an oversized novelty cheque to Austin Appelbee, the boy whose swimming heroism captivated the nation. It generated thousands of reactions. Many pit Pauline Hanson against Prime Minister Albanese; none portray the PM in a positive light. Then there is her billionaire Australian friend Gina Rhinehart, who this year gifted a "sexy" private plane—by Pauline's own definition—that is worth $1½ million. Friends of Rinehart and associates of Hancock Prospecting contributed an additional $2 million in the same gift-exchanging session in April.

On top of that, Ms Hanson and her 2IC, Barnaby Joyce, have spent thousands of taxpayers' dollars to visit Rinehart in all corners of Australia. Hanson was treated to a trip to Mar-a-Lago by Rinehart at the end of last year, where she was given the stage to unload her manifesto to a like-minded crowd. It centred around the declaration that Australia was an "economic and social tinderbox" to a room of American conservative powerbrokers. Two weeks of sitting days were missed in the process. It appears that she has lost sight of who and where she is representing. And here lies another display of her emboldened hypocrisy. In her National Press Club address just last week, Pauline Hanson zeroed in on the renewable energy industry. She said:

One Nation will end this renewable energy bribery—grants, tax incentives, concessional finance, even the Government underwriting anything that sponsors the whole net zero hoax.

Meanwhile, her close relationship with one of the world's largest mining magnates is documented extensively. In an appearance on ABC Radio Perth this month, she was asked whether she takes policy direction from Gina Rinehart. Hanson not only did not deny it, but also confirmed that she actively consults Ms Rinehart on policy directions, saying, "She has been very beneficial."

How can we forget in 2019 when senior One Nation officials—including chief of staff James Ashby and former Queensland leader Steve Dickson—were secretly recorded in the United States soliciting millions of dollars in political donations from the National Rifle Association [NRA] and Koch Industries. There were then the embarrassing scenes of Ashby and Dickson fronting a media scrum in Brisbane, saying they had "had a few drinks" and claiming they were set up by a "secret agent" from the Middle East—lol. The secret recordings of the pair reveal they wanted millions of dollars in political donations from the NRA and discussed softening One Nation policies on gun ownership as they tried to secure the funding.

Knowing all of this, why would anyone believe Pauline Hanson when she told the Press Club, "I will always put Australia and Australians first," when the opposite is, in fact, true? In her tirade against climate, against multiculturalism, for weakening Australia's gun laws and her backing by the world's elite, it is Pauline and her wealthy 1 per cent backers who will come first. What about everyone else? Under One Nation, sorry, but they come last.