‘I’m coming’: Pauline Hanson issues stern warning to WA as One Nation targets all 16 Federal seats

An emboldened Pauline Hanson has declared she’s coming for WA, pledging to throw everything at winning seats in the west at the 2028 federal election.

“I’m coming. Too right I am,” the One Nation leader told The West Australian as a new poll revealed on Saturday that her party could win as many as 59 Lower House seats nationwide.

“I’ll be there supporting the WA candidates who will be standing under the banner of One Nation.

“I am on the floor of parliament, and I rarely hear anyone that’s fighting for WA and its specific issues.

“I want to give WA decent representation.”

Ms Hanson said One Nation would run candidates in all 16 Federal seats in WA — as well as in the Senate.

And she already has four WA seats on her radar — starting with Andrew Hastie’s electorate of Canning.

“We’re going to run in every seat in the Lower House, but there’s four that we will be really targeting — Canning, Forrest, Hasluck and Pearce,” Ms Hanson said.

“In Canning (at the last election) we polled 11.46 per cent (of the primary vote) at the last election, and Pearce 9.27 per cent.

“The growth of One Nation since then, particularly over the past 10 months shows our (support) has grown considerably.

“And we have also won seven seats in South Australia and won Farrer.

“If that polling holds up it is realistic to think One Nation will win some Lower House seats (in the federal parliament).”

At last year’s Federal election, One Nation ran candidates in WA federal Lower House seats receiving just 7.61 per cent of the primary vote — enough to claim a Senate seat for candidate Tyron Whitten.

But the party’s fortunes have changed dramatically since the 2025 poll, with Australians disenchanted by the major parties.

At the recent South Australian State Election One Nation won a historic four seats in the 47-member Lower House and three seats in the 22-member Upper House.

The Liberal Party won just five seats in the SA Lower House while Labor holds 34 seats.

And at the Farrer by-election in May, One Nation claimed another historic victory, securing a seat in the House of Representatives for the first time in the Party’s history, ending the Coalition’s 77-year-old dominance in the region.

A post-Budget Newspoll had One Nation’s primary vote jumping from 24 per cent to 27 per cent, ahead of the Coalition’s 20 per cent and closing in fast on Labor’s 31 per cent.

And on Saturday, May 23, a Redbridge Group/Accent Research MRP poll showed One Nation would win as many as 59 of the 150 seats in the House of Representatives at an election.

Ms Hanson said she believed the rise of One Nation in the east, was being replicated in WA, with growing support for her party.

“I’ve got all these invitations to come over to WA,” she said

“Farmers, graziers, pastoralists, business people. People in WA are jumping on board with One Nation.”

Ms Hanson said West Australians, like those in the east, were becoming more and more disillusioned with Labor and Liberals — and particularly with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, who had broken his promises on negative gearing and capital gains tax.

“You can’t trust a word that man tells you,” Ms Hanson said of the Prime Minister.

“He is an opportunist. He will say what he needs to say at the time — but he will do differently if it suits him down the track.

“So, I’m telling the people of Western Australia — don’t ever trust Anthony Albanese and what he tells you.

“He just keeps taxing Australians all the time. They’ve had a gutful of it.”

Ms Hanson added Mr Albanese could not be trusted to keep the 2018 GST deal that will reap WA $40 billion over the next four years.

The Queenslander said WA had every right to keep its 75 cents in the dollar annual GST take and should not be penalised for developing its resources.

“I advocated (for WA’s new GST deal) on the floor of parliament,” she said.

“Although I am a Queensland senator, as a national leader of One Nation, I have to do what is fair and right across the whole country.

“My message to the rest of the States is ‘get your act together’.

“Victoria has a great gas supply there. They don’t want to utilise it. They don’t want to utilise the resources they have there.

“These States cannot keep taking the hard work that other States (like WA) have done and take their GST.”

The distribution of One Nation preferences is likely to have a significant bearing on election results in WA — and around the nation.

Ms Hanson put the Prime Minister and opposition leader Angus Taylor on notice that One Nation preferences would be decided seat by seat in WA.

“I’m going to target certain seats,” she said.

“If they (Labor and the Liberals) think they can keep smacking me around the mouth and get away with it — they need to think twice about it. (But) we (normally) put the Greens, the Teals and Labor last — in that order.

“We are a conservative party. We are definitely not on the same page as the Greens.

“The Greens and left of Labor are destroying this country.”

Ms Hanson has been a polarising figure of Australian politics since she first entered the federal parliament as the independent member for Oxley in 1996.

Now, a One Nation senator for Queensland, her controversial views on issues such as migration have kept her in the headlines.

“Over the past 30 years the country has changed,” Ms Hanson said.

“People see a difference with mass migration, cost of living, not being able to own your own home, the struggles, depression.

“People are saying ‘what the hell has happened to our country’?

“So, that’s when they reflect on me and what I have said years ago.

“So, instead of criticising me and calling me a racist, they’re now saying ‘she was right — she warned us about this’.

“People say the difference between me and other politicians is I don’t beat around the bush, and I’ve had to gain that trust from people. They may not always agree with me, but they respect me for being upfront and honest.”

Ms Hanson said she would be prepared to enter into an alliance agreement with Mr Taylor’s Coalition should One Nation seats be needed to form government on election night in 2028.

“They (the Coalition) would be able to take a letter to the Governor-General saying ‘we’ve got the numbers with One Nation to form government — but I want to remain totally independent,” Ms Hanson said.

But Ms Hanson has her sights set higher than being the junior partner of an alliance Government with the Liberals and Nationals.

She wants to win government, although One Nation currently holds just two seats in the 150-seat House of Representatives.

“Never disregard the rise of One Nation,” Ms Hanson warned.

“I am going for government. I am not here to be the tail on the dog. I am not here to prop up the Libs. I am an independent political party. What we will be saying to the voters is: Please vote One Nation.”

Ms Hanson, who turns 72 on Wednesday, said anyone who thinks she is retiring from federal politics any time soon is dreaming, adding she was contemplating a move to the House of Representatives.

“I’m not talking about retirement,” she said. “I think I have a lot more life in me than some of those members of parliament.

“I’ve told my staff, if I become a Joe Biden tap me on the shoulder and I’ll move on.”

Ms Hanson said she would visit WA at least three times before the end of this year.

“One Nation is here to stay, mate,” she said.

“We are here for the long term: We are not going anywhere.”