Angus Taylor’s budget reply is “replete with One Nation policies” and shows the major parties are “on borrowed time”, Pauline Hanson has claimed.
The Opposition Leader will appear before parliament shortly after 7.30pm on Thursday for the customary budget reply speech.
Snippets of the speech, released to the media on Wednesday, show the Coalition will seek to cap net overseas migration at housing completion levels and banning non-citizens, including permanent residents, from the NDIS.
However, Senator Hanson accused the Coalition on Thursday of borrowing ideas from One Nation.
She said the Coalition’s budget reply was “replete with One Nation policies”.
“While they’ve been telling everyone that One Nation has no policies, they’ve been reading them very carefully because they’re desperate for some good ideas,” she said in a statement.
“I’m pleased they’ve seen some light at last.”
Senator Hanson claimed her right-wing populist party had been “setting the agenda in Australia for many months”, having taken a hard line stance on issues such as migration and the clean energy transition.
One Nation has proposed capping net overseas migration at 130,000, but has come under fire for its leader’s controversial rhetoric, including about Australian Muslims.
“For years I’ve been demanding that immigration be slashed, that people who come here contribute for at least eight years before they’re eligible for citizenship and benefits, and that we ensure those who come here adhere to our laws, values and customs,” she said.
“The major parties called it racist and extreme. Now the leader of the Liberal Party is putting it in his Budget speech.”
Senator Hanson said the political landscape was “changing”.
“The cosy two-party system protecting two tired, clueless and unpopular major parties is on borrowed time no matter how much they wish it was otherwise,” she said.
“My budget reply will show the way, and my door will always be open to those prepared to work in the best interests of Australia.”
The Albanese government handed down its fifth federal budget on Tuesday, which include anticipated reforms to negative gearing and capital gains tax.
Senator Hanson claimed the measures were part of Labor’s “Sheriff of Nottingham budget”, while claiming baby boomers had had to go without.
“This budget, to me, is basically taking the wealth from people who worked hard, and I’m talking people my age. We were the baby boomers,” she said on Wednesday.
“We didn’t have a lot … we had second-hand furniture, second-hand clothes. We had to go without. We didn’t go to restaurants and we didn’t have all this.”
Senator Hanson was joined by Farrer MP David Farley, One Nation’s second only MP in the lower house and first elected on a One Nation ticket.
