Pauline Hanson's One Nation to become 4th most-powerful political party in Australia

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[quote=Sydney Morning Herald]Pauline Hanson's One Nation party is now a major force in Australian politics, having secured four Senate seats in an independent crossbench that has swelled to 11.

[b]The anti-Islam party scored two seats in Queensland[/b], including one for Ms Hanson, and one in NSW, when results from the July 2 federal election were finalised in those two states on Thursday morning.

Adding to a seat already confirmed in Western Australia earlier this week, One Nation will have four senators when the 45th Parliament begins later this month. That is one more than the other major new force, the Nick Xenophon Team, which won three Senate seats in South Australia.[/quote]

[quote]The numbers in the new-look Senate are as follows: Coalition 30, Labor 26, Greens 9, One Nation 4, Nick Xenophon Team 3, plus Jacqui Lambie, Derryn Hinch, Mr Leyonhjelm and Family First's Bob Day.[/quote]

Read more at [url]http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/one-nation-wins-four-senate-seats-crossbenchers-to-hold-eleven-seats-20160803-gqkn0h[/url]

The danger of proportional representation; allowing minor parties to win seats in elections, is that it can provide a platform for political outliers and extremists, as opposed to winner-takes-all systems where the parties have to fight in and for the political centre.

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Basically because of Turnbulls eagerness to try and get a more "workable" senate, this has in-turn more or less made it even worse now, now that O.N has a large enough bloc within the senate that they are more or less now a pivotal vote as crossbenchers. If he knew better he would have just waited out until september. I think they may also have friends in the form of Derryn Hinch & Bob Day. I guess it is what it is ; a colossal fuck up for the coalition and a chance that we may be back at the elections in maybe 12 to 24 months.

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Disgusting that these nightmare people even got a single seat in parliament.

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Can't really say I'm surprised half the seats were in Queensland.

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Damn Queensland stop making it so hard for WA to be the worst state in Australia

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[QUOTE=Lonestriper;50832413]Damn Queensland stop making it so hard for WA to be the worst state in Australia[/QUOTE]

you can pretty much blame it on most of the bogans & right wing christian fundamentalists north of the brisbane river & west of Ipswich, all the way up to cape york. (excluding a few suburbs that are inner-city.)

Then again, this is Queensland. A state that had a hard-right christian fundamentalist premier for 19 years, unopposed, in the form of Joh Bjelke-Petersen. There are many conservatives in queensland that actually miss that cunt

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Socialist Alliance had a stall in Rundle Mall today (and every Friday for the last month) asking people to sign a petition "against" Hanson. I'm not exactly sure what they hope to achieve.