Donations top $2.7m in three days unheard of in Australian political fundraising

By George Christensen

This isn’t America, where political fundraising is practically a professional sport. This is Australia. Most parties struggle to get people to renew memberships, let alone pull millions from supporters in a matter of days. Usually, the money comes from the usual suspects, unions, big donors, corporate functions in Canberra and Sydney where everyone knows everyone else.

This was different.

You don’t have to vote One Nation to recognise that. You don’t even have to like Pauline Hanson. But if you’re honest, you’d admit this sort of response is almost unheard of in Australian politics. People reached into their own pockets during a cost-of-living crisis and handed over money because they wanted to send a message.

That alone should have made the major parties stop and ask themselves why.

Instead, Anthony Albanese decided to cast doubt over the whole thing.

He suggested the fundraising claims didn’t stack up. He questioned whether the numbers were legitimate. Coming from this Prime Minister, there’s a fair bit of irony in that.

Then an independent audit landed.

The donations were genuine. The money was there. The figures checked out. The campaign had raised exactly what One Nation said it had raised. The suggestion that Australians had been misled simply didn’t hold up.

That should have been enough. You’d think people would quietly move on.

But that’s not what’s happening.

Labor figures have kept swinging, trying to land a punch on One Nation as its support climbs. It’s become noticeable. You hear the talking points in interviews, see the lines rolled out at press conferences. The intensity feels out of proportion.

Maybe that’s because Labor has a problem.

They’re the government.

They’re not sitting on the opposition benches throwing stones. They’ve been making the decisions. They’re responsible for the country as it stands today. When Australians complain about power bills, housing affordability, grocery prices or feeling like they’re working harder just to tread water, they’re talking about life under a Labor government.

Fair or unfair, that’s the reality of being in office.

And that’s why these attacks come across less like confidence and more like anxiety.

Governments cruising comfortably towards another term don’t spend this much time obsessing over a minor party. They don’t devote this much energy to discrediting a fundraising campaign that, in any other political era, might have been dismissed as a protest movement.

Instead, they look rattled.

I’ve had conversations with people who’ve spent years around Canberra. Some are Labor people. Some aren’t. Increasingly, they’re saying the quiet part out loud. There are whispers about whether Anthony Albanese can lead Labor into the next election. Talk of a reset. Speculation that retirement could come sooner than anyone expected six months ago.

Maybe it’s idle gossip. Canberra runs on gossip nearly as much as coffee and alcohol.

But the fact those conversations are happening at all is revealing.

Not long ago, the idea of Albanese’s leadership being openly questioned would have sounded ridiculous. Now it’s becoming part of the background chatter.

Meanwhile, One Nation has tapped into something that the major parties still seem reluctant to acknowledge.

There are a lot of Australians who feel ignored.

They’re the people watching their weekly grocery bill climb and wondering how they’ve gone backwards despite doing all the right things. They’re the couples who never imagined that owning a home would become a distant dream for their kids. They’re the tradies, small business owners, retirees and shift workers who feel like the people making decisions in Canberra don’t spend much time thinking about how those decisions land in the real world.

You can dismiss those people as angry. Plenty do.

You can roll your eyes and pretend they’re being manipulated.

Or you can accept that when thousands of Australians voluntarily donate more than $2 million in a few days, something deeper is going on.

You don’t get that kind of response by accident.

You get it when people feel like nobody else is listening.

Whether Labor wants to hear that message is another question entirely.

Until next time, God bless you, your family and nation.

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26 thought on “Labor and Albo panicking over Pauline and One Nation”
  1. I think this latest promotion of the orange lady which is actually years away from any election is more to do with what is going on with the orange man and his side kick mostly behind the scenes due to media control if not blackout at the moment, but with the medium term focus of diverting public sentiment onto the path they will need it to be for their greater project plans in the pipeline.
    Despite any claims of poll or election rigging, it still has to look real and puffed up, extraordinary almost.
    Let’s see how long the dance lasts before it runs out of steam.
    It’s all a charade anyway.

    Reference; “SANCTIONED: UK, France, Australia, Canada TARGET Israeli Settlers” Wally Rashid (Youtube)

  2. “ The Orange lady wont change that.
    Her rich sponsor comes from the same ilke.”
    True. This is how countries elect those who cannot really serve them because their sponsors call the shots. In many cases they also owe allegiance to a foreign country.
    That’s what happened with UK Starmer. Many refused to vote because they had no confidence in anyone. And it’s obvious what the UK got and who they are now trying to throw out.
    What options do we have?

  3. In 1999 UN Agenda 21 was signed when John Howard was the PM and Alexander Downer was the Foreign MInister. (Liberal Party)
    In 2015 the UN Agenda 2030 was signed when Malcolm Turnbull was the PM and Julie Bishop was the Foreign Minister. (Liberal Party)
    The 2030 Agenda set Australia on a path of 169 individual targets, built on 8 Millennium Development goals and a National Framework to achieve 17 goals.
    These goals would be taken into legislation, plans of action, budgets and partners.
    Now here we are.
    Slowly eroding away from any former glory, legislation by legislation.
    The Orange lady wont change that.
    Her rich sponsor comes from the same ilke.
    See that as a clue.
    It’s all smoke and mirrors for the slaves and peasants.

  4. Lmao at the cattle who believe in false saviours.
    At this point the cattle deserve to be culled by another vaccine.

  5. I could prop up Pauline with a few Trillion if she accepts Zimbabwean money ; way things are going that currency might become more valuable than our $ going on the Labor money tree being defoliated .

  6. Ha, ha, ha
    Go on AEC and ALP steal the next election, I want to see what happens

  7. Hey folks,
    .
    Situation update from the UK – you know, where the shit-for-brains hired mercenary thugs masquerading as cops literally ARREST and KILL the victims stabbed by psychopathic imports and innocent Irish get BEHEADED in the MIDDLE OF THE STREET?
    .
    [ https://www.bitchute.com/video/7Ps84oCzS8Ie ]
    .
    And this is where walking talking Pig’s Arse aka AnAL and all his Satanic piglets are dragging Australia RIGHT NOW, with MILLIONS and MILLIONS of Third World REPLACEMENTS now POURING into Australia every year in LOCKSTEP with every other Western country across the entire world.
    .
    LOCKSTEP, folks, because it’s being done EVERYWHERE, SYSTEMATICALLY and ON PURPOSE.
    .
    And what is Super Pauline gonna do about it? Is she gonna deal with the ROOT CAUSE and throw out all the VAMPIRES too?
    .
    Pig’s Arse. And pigs will fly first, folks, hopefully the likes of walking talking Pig’s Arse aka AnAL and all his kind at the end of sturdy lengths of rope.

  8. For commenter Dandy, in 2003 under Honest John Howard
    bot says:
    “Pauline Hanson was not merely released early—her convictions were completely overturned (quashed) on appeal, and an acquittal was recorded. She had served about 11 weeks (78 days) in prison before the appeal succeeded.”
    The political genius John Howard identified the threat of “populism” before the term was even invented.
    Populism, ie effective democracy, must be crushed at the earliest opportunity.

  9. Yeah folks!
    .
    Super Pauline to the rescue. You go girl!
    .
    But whattya gonna do about THIS?
    .
    [ rumble.com/v7b5hfs-leaked-mossad-docs-expose-israel-hiring-illegals-to-slaughter-white-people-.html ].
    .
    Is Super Pauline going to own up to the INCONVENIENT TRUTH?
    .
    Is Super Pauline gonna drive the baby-eating VAMPIRES out of our country?

    Pig’s Arse.
    .
    Super Pauline LOVES the Vampires, folks, the Vampires have Super Pauline by her geriatric short and curlies, JUST LIKE Peace President Ginger Nuts.

  10. Re Puffing Billy
    Reference “the people’s voice” (rumble) is presented by an Iranian born man (I understand) and one would hope that it’s not true the things that are coming out because if the claims were true it would shatter people’s perception of the ‘Elite’ they have admired and looked up to. People like Ellen and Oprah and pop stars, and Holly-wood actors who love pizza….who did what to who. Who was the President that stole Justin Bieber’s virginity and so on. Quite shocking so just waiting for their denials of said claims. Even then, not what the ‘elite’ say, but what the ‘elite’ do (now) – particularly the ones who have fled the Country.
    On another note, if Iran hackers now have the Epstein files in their possession which is highly possible, then things may get crazy in a diversional attempt to create so much noise that people don’t hear.
    Like a war.
    Given CN is published in America, there are obviously Americans who must be sharing control of this site now – and who knows who they are. They may well be Trumpians.
    I’m still getting my head around the fact that an Australian Politician (ex fish and chip lady) can have a past history of being in jail having committed a crime (obviously), but still aspire to be the next Prime Minister of Convict Colony Australia. I guess that is the low level we can aspire to.
    At the moment the vile mud slinging, calling someone a liar, and having used a carriage service to harass and offend the sitting PM should come under our new laws? not? If not, then why not?
    It’s all gone too far. It makes the mud slingers look ugly.
    Whoever marketed this, has got it wrong. People are tired of it.

  11. Yes IG. I believe that Tony boy is back on the attack of Pauline.
    No shame felt in what he and Costello and Howard et al did to her over twenty years ago.
    To my way of thinking, an absolute disgrace. And they patted themselves on the back.
    They also had the Christian churches marching against her because of local member Jim Longly.
    I was going to stand with a placard against this, but was told that I would end up having rocks on my roof. – by Christians!!! Really!!! My gosh. How far we have fallen!!!
    Once you get rid of conscience, it is a slippery slide down much further until any evil can be justified if the end result is a religious one or financial one. Anything that makes us feel ‘superior’.
    That’s why what is and what has happened in Gaza and to Gazans is justified by Christians.
    It’s ok if it brings in the Saviour who they think will be very pleased because He couldn’t accomplish what WE WANT on His own.
    Accumulative acts of betrayal destroy your ability to choose and we will just follow the way of the ‘tribe’ to our eventual downfall while we pat ourselves on our backs.

  12. “Thanks Cam but we have some misgivings about this website you linked. Ed”

    So what? Clearly with all your Trump loving articles, avoiding the truth of the PEDOPHILE…Look at the videos of him admitting walking in on the Pageant girls, naked and 14-15 years old….
    +
    Why do you keep calling me Cameron? Are you using my email address to expose what you think is my first name? (Crooked creek) When will you tell the truth with courage and do such a truthful article about those destroying Western civilisation?
    +
    You could do an article on that one…on why you think it is or isn’t true…I dare you, MOSSAD will kill you…IF YOU TELL THE TRUTH!

  13. ONs ‘Fire the Liar’ sounds like dumping a clueless PM will fix things.
    ‘Fire the Fabians, the LNP and the media’ would be a better chant.
    Whatever happened to subliminal messaging?
    Watched a few minutes of ABC news. In reporting last nights One Nation event & associated protest, a 1m x 3m placard was the backdrop for 10 seconds plus. It read ‘Death to [ONE] This Nation’, with the ‘ONE’ struck through.
    That was the supportive message from ABC to the public. ‘Death to this nation’.
    The ABC belongs in a toilet.

  14. Personally I’d have Albanese executed as a traitor. And he would by no means be alone!

  15. Hi Mark Gina Reinhart invited Pauline to the Mara-a-Lago meeting but Pauline didn’t get to meet Trump. More than 47,000 people donated to Pauline’s Fire the Liar fund. At least there are some patriots left. Ed

  16. I think the PM was merely saying that One Nation needed to show proportionality to the raising of that fund so quickly.
    Was it like 200 people giving the crumbs of their savings, or was it ONE BIG DONOR?
    And what would be in it for this one big donor?
    And why was the orange lady even invited to Mar-a-lago? given her ordinary status prior.

    Some of us may be reminded of the fate of King Nebuchadnezzar in the Bible – Daniel 4: 29-33.
    The King who believed himself to be so grand (including destroying Solomon’s temple) and looting gold and treasures, that God allowed him to go mad, wandering the wilderness, eating grass for 7 years. A King who saw himself as a great builder, yet far from the truth….
    Does history repeat itself?

    Politically this Country is screwed, which ever way you spin it.
    The people always need a hero.

  17. One Nation will not be the answer, it is controlled opposition, they all are.
    +
    Leaked Mossad Docs Expose Israel Hiring Illegals to ‘Slaughter White People’ in Western Nations -‘WESTERN CIVILISATIONS MUST COLLAPSE’
    +
    “Official Mossad documents have just been released by Iranian hackers, exposing Israel’s calculated plan to destroy the West through unchecked immigration and forced multiculturalism.
    It’s official: Israel wants blood on the streets of every Western capital. They want chaos in every city. Beheadings, mob violence, pedophiles operating in plain sight. You name it. They want Western civilization torn apart.
    +
    This is all a psy-op and we have the proof. Straight from their own files.
    +
    Tonight we reveal how this operation floods the US, UK, and Europe with millions from Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America — while pushing multiculturalism abroad but banning it at home. We also expose the supporting networks behind transgender indoctrination, extreme pornography, and the moral collapse designed to weaken the West from every side.
    +
    The ultimate goal: total control. A New World Order built on the ruins of broken, mixed, identity-less societies that can never resist.
    +
    The only question left: Have these warnings come too late… or are we witnessing the final act before Western civilization falls?
    +
    Western leaders have deliberately laid the groundwork for the collapse of their own societies. They’ve sold out their own people, betrayed their nations, and opened the floodgates — all for a globalist agenda.
    +
    And at the very heart of this agenda is the ruthless push for a New World Order.
    +
    When you finally learn who is really driving this… when you see how coldly and perfectly planned it all is… everything suddenly makes terrifying, psychopathic kind of sense.
    +
    The psy-op is in full swing. Every single thing we’re seeing — the beheadings in the streets, the riots, the chaos — is playing perfectly into their hands.

    The public were slow to react… but react they did. And their response to the arrival of the cops says it all. This is Britain. They thought they would be the ones in trouble for taking out the man trying to behead someone in the street….”
    More at-
    h ttps://thepeoplesvoice.tv/leaked-mossad-docs-expose-israel-hiring-illegals-to-slaughter-white-people-in-western-nations/

  18. Fake news from Elbow’s bunker
    They made up a story Pauline relocated a venue because the police made the restaurateur scared of protesters and Pauline said it was because they needed a bigger venue. Some ALP seat-warming stooge said Gina gave her a jet plane but it’s a small propeller plane. Elbow himself says the donations are fake, but now they are audited. Elbow and his front bench should all resign and all their legislations, treaties and initiatives need to be repealed right back to Gillard’s NDIS.
    Another piece of luck, the fake news is going broke. Unfortunately the journalists will have to go feral, like Karl is, and another guy called Liam something from channel 7 I think, is doing some decent work.

  19. May I slightly rewrite the final sentence:
    “Until next time, God bless you, your family and nation” to:
    ‘God bless our Nation, you & your family’

    I was voting for Pauline, dumb as a rock as she then was, before Abbott, the attack dog, was sooled onto her by his boss and she was thrown into the slammer (where I wrote to her: still awaiting a reply, but she’s been busy)
    Ironic, ‘aint it, that the attack dog has now been whistled from the knackers yard to yelp on a short leash, at the coming of the storm.

    I’m looking forward to a live, knee to knee, tv special between the ex-con and the attack dog. I’m hoping the cur will flee, bloodied & beaten with the ex-con spitting out pieces of revenge.

  20. Blind Freddy can see how hopeless the Labor party is a running a thriving economy!
    We have 1,000 years of coal reserves, we have oil, gas, uranium, minerals, gold … everything we need … but the dumb Albo/Greens crew have heart failure over using our resources for our own benefit. They sell it to other countries, but don’t anyone dare to make life easier for us Aussies!
    BlackoutBowen is correct … the sun never stops shining…. he just forgot the bit about the earth turning so about half of the planet is in darkness every 24 hours. He also missed the lesson in school where we learned that trees absorb CO2 and give off oxygen and that nature balances everything … without men meddling and messing things up!
    Those of us who are older have seen this play out before. Labor these days are so busy with DEI, pronouns, ‘hurty’ feelings, and importing terrorists and those who hate us, that they forgot they had the job of running a successful economy!

  21. Yes, we all can recognise the pattern, the instructions, the overseas “investments” that are not in our favour.
    It is a good sign for One Nation.
    We either have a chance to change it and have a life or we will be watching the theatre until the end.

  22. These are the humble people that will actually change things. Not those waiting for Jesus to change things, those living on comments boards, or people who think they have all the answers.

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