From the Guardian · · 1m 40s
Albanese to Hanson: my mum was out of your league
A podcast jab at a dead woman's public housing tenancy has the PM swinging and One Nation fighting on two fronts.
In brief
A podcast jab at a dead woman's public housing tenancy has the PM swinging and One Nation fighting on two fronts. Hanson's attack on Albanese's late mother handed him a personal fight he was happy to have, while Hastie turned his own feud into a campaign against One Nation's discipline. Originally reported by the…
The PM calls it nastiness
Anthony Albanese hit back at Pauline Hanson over resurfaced comments attacking his mother for living in public housing for decades. He said he was stunned.
“I tell you what's weakness: nastiness and spitefulness”
Out of her league
Albanese said his mother, a self-described battler who died in 2002, was beyond criticism from the One Nation leader.
“But my mother was way out of Pauline Hanson's league. Way out.”
What Hanson actually said
On Karl Stefanovic's podcast in February, Hanson said a 65-year tenancy in a housing commission home was not on, and called Albanese pathetic for citing his upbringing.
“It should be limited time, you have been given a hand up, move it on to the next ones coming through.”
Labor demands an apology
Trade minister Don Farrell called the comments appalling and un-Australian. Hanson has been approached for comment and has not responded.
“There's a certain bitterness in One Nation's approach to the world that I find quite un-Australian”
Hastie won't back down
Liberal MP Andrew Hastie again called Hanson a lying coward over an animated cartoon branding him a traitor, which she refuses to take down.
“She started a fight, and I intend to win it.”
Buyers' remorse claim
Hastie said the party revolves entirely around Hanson, and guessed Barnaby Joyce and David Farley regret joining. He said he feels sorry for Joyce.
“He left a party that made him deputy prime minister twice, to jump in with this rabble”
Joyce says no regrets
Joyce told Guardian Australia the assumption was not correct, saying he joined One Nation because the political status quo had gone lazy and weak.
“My fear is that the Coalition tread water rather than find land”
The seat behind the feud
One Nation has spent months targeting Hastie's WA seat of Canning. It won the overlapping state seat of Secret Harbour at a byelection last month.
The big picture
Hanson's attack on Albanese's late mother handed him a personal fight he was happy to have, while Hastie turned his own feud into a campaign against One Nation's discipline.
