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The Federal election and the Queensland and Western Australian state elections are three very important dates that are fast approaching.

Although the Prime Minister has claimed the federal election is ‘scheduled’ for May 2025, you can never trust anything he says. All indications are that Anthony Albanese will go to the polls when he thinks he can win. Polling shows voters deserting his chaotic and incompetent government in abundance, so he will want to go before interest rate rises kick in after Christmas. A November or December poll could be on the cards (or perhaps sooner).

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The Queensland election is in October this year, coinciding with a visit to Australia by King Charles III and Queen Camila.

Albanese will want to have an election well clear of the electoral drumming Labor will get at the Queensland state level; it is against protocol for a monarch’s visit to be during, or near, an election.

Which leaves perhaps November or very early December as likely dates for Albanese to plead his case with an increasingly unreceptive public.

We’re fewer than 80 days out from the Queensland state election and the LNP haven’t even released their policy document – as opposed to One Nation who launched their vision for the state back in February at Coominya in regional Queensland.

Western Australians will head to the polls in March 2025. Unlike Canberra, parliamentary terms for Queensland and WA are fixed at four years; the Premiers of neither state can set the timing for an election which suits their advantage.

One Nation’s leaders and candidates have been out working hard across Queensland and WA, meeting people and holding very successful events. Momentum is with Pauline Hanson, our leader, and One Nation.

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Recently Senator Malcolm Roberts assisted door knocking the Mackay area with our candidate, Kylee Stanton. They visited the homeless and dispossessed, those folk that Labor have cast on the heap of forgotten Australians as they drive immigration to record levels in an attempt to paper over cracks in our economy and avoid a headline recession.

Soon One Nation will start to release the details of our Federal candidates, who will take on the task of hold the Liberal, National, Greens and Labor parties to account at a federal level.

We ask each and every one of our supporters to help our candidates door knock across the state and country. Reaching out to people, speaking to others, door knocking, is the singular only way to win the trust of people at an election.

We firmly predict all candidates that door-knock thoroughly will enhance their chance to win a seat in parliament.

The feedback we are getting at the doors, primarily that they have never seen a political party so active, is very encouraging.

State-owned petrol stations a disaster in the making - Miles can get miles to the sniffing gallon
One Nation August 08, 2024

Family-owned businesses will suffer and fuel will become even more expensive in Queensland if desperate Labor premier Stephen Miles’ ludicrous idea to create state-owned petrol stations and intervene in the retail fuel market is allowed to happen

Virtually nothing demonstrates the Australian political left’s economic illiteracy better than this idea, although there have been some real doozies in the past. Ben Chifley’s attempt in 1947 to nationalise all banking in Australia comes to mind, as does the Greens’ ridiculous notion to put a national freeze on rents.

‘Intervention’ is a confronting term in any context, and a downright dirty word in economics. When governments intervene in free markets, they inevitably make things worse. The two sectors of the Australian economy with the most government market intervention are housing and energy, and these have never been more expensive in Australia than they are today, nor have they ever cost taxpayers as much money. It’s not a coincidence. The most efficient mechanism we have to determine the true cost of goods, labour and services is the free market. The government represents the opposite—they're always the most inefficient.

Miles claims he is intervening in Queensland’s retail fuel market because there is “market failure for an essential product,” but it’s a lie. The retail fuel market isn’t failing; it’s working like free markets should. Unleaded petrol prices at the bowser reflect the prevailing Singapore market price on a given day, fluctuations in local demand (the element that determines why you can sometimes get fuel cheaper at one station than at another across town), freight costs, fuel excise, and GST.

Petrol stations usually make only the slimmest of margins from fuel sales; the profits come primarily from the other items they sell (usually at a markup compared to prices for such items at supermarkets): snacks, drinks, basic grocery items, and tobacco products, just to name a few.

The impact of state-owned petrol stations will be to drive business away from existing station operators, who are already struggling with increased costs and wages, and from reduced revenue thanks to consumers tightening their belts in a cost-of-living crisis. It will inevitably make fuel more expensive in Queensland in the long run. Miles can't control it. His government can’t run a hospital properly and can’t run a power plant – why would anyone think they could run a petrol station?

During the pandemic, when the cost of fuel was starting to bite Australian motorists hard, One Nation pushed for a temporary halving of the 44c/litre Federal Government fuel excise. The Morrison Coalition government halved it for six months, and this was immediately reflected in lower prices at the bowser. It’s time we revisited how fuel is taxed with a view to providing some long-term structural relief that would remain effective over the long term in reducing fuel prices paid by Australian motorists.

Albo bares his Albo backside to indigenous commitments including to all Australians - Except Muslims
One Nation August 06, 2024

The very first Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures was held in 1999, and it was very different from the high profile four-day Arnhem Land event that’s held these days. Back in 1999, just a handful of people showed up at was little more than a backyard barbeque.



Since then it’s evolved into a few other things, notably a forum on indigenous issues and policies. Academics and business leaders are regular attendees along with politicians. Attendance itself carries a high political charge. Depending on the party, an invitation to a politician can mean they’re going to be berated and criticised when they show up or they will be berated and criticised for not showing up. Peter Dutton declined his invitation this year.

Anthony Albanese, of course, faced up to the first Garma since the failure of his voice to Parliament referendum. He brought his new Minister for Indigenous Australians – Senator Malarndirri McCarthy – with him. Remarkably, after months of a post-referendum indigenous policy vacuum, these two effectively walked back Labor’s election night commitment to implement the Uluru Statement from the Heart “in full”.

In addition to demanding a constitutionally enshrined indigenous voice to Parliament, the statement also demands the establishment of a “truth-telling” or “Makaratta” commission and a treaty between Australia and its indigenous citizens.

Albo is not a babe in the political wilderness, and like many experienced politicians, he knows how to read the room. The devastating defeat of his voice to Parliament sent a clear signal there is nowhere near enough support in Australia for yet more racial division in the form of a “truth-telling” commission rewriting objective history to maximise financial settlements put in a treaty. Albo knows he can’t implement the rest of the statement—or even commit to it – and save the votes he needs to hold onto power.

So he’s walked it all back. In a now-typical feat of linguistic gymnastics – worth at least a bronze medal in Paris – he basically backflipped on his promise to establish a “Makaratta” commission by redefining what it was.

As opposition leader in 2021, he explicitly described what a commission would be: a “…Makaratta commission, which would oversee a national process of truth-telling, agreement and treaty making. As a priority Labor will establish a Makaratta commission with responsibility for truth-telling and treaty. It will be established through a process of open nominations and review. The commission will facilitate local truth-telling and advise on a national framework for treaty making, and it will work with a voice to Parliament. This is how we can go forward. Until promises are transformed into reality, a production line of announcements and re-announcements amounts to nothing more than building a mirage.”

At the Garma event on Saturday, however, he said that a federal body to oversee truth and treaty was “not what we have proposed,” and he told the ABC’s Insiders programme: "And w with regard to Makaratta, a Yolngu word that simply means a coming together after struggle, I’m somewhat perplexed at why people see that as being complex…”.

‘Perplexed’ more accurately describes the confusion he created at Garma among indigenous activists like leading voice campaigner Pat Anderson, who asked if he was rolling back Labor’s commitment and said: “…we understand that a constitutional voice didn’t get up, but the Australian people didn’t vote on truth or treaty.”

It’s a line that’s been trotted out many times since the voice referendum failed but unlike Pat Anderson, Albo understands that the rejection of the voice has thrown a giant monkey wrench into the plan to implement the Uluru Statement. The promise he made in the euphoria of an election win has dissolved in the face of reality: Australians overwhelmingly do not support this idea.

Ultimately, it’s good news for Australians who support equal rights for all and special rights for none. Indigenous activists will continue to behave as if their grand plan for “voice, truth and treaty” will be realised and the failure of the referendum never happened but with a Federal election coming in the next nine months, harsh political reality has forced Labor to back out.