A Timeline of How One Nation Policies Have Been Copied and Vindicated:


September 10, 1996 Pauline Hanson, Independent MP for Oxley, makes her maiden speech in Parliament, after having been disendorsed by the Liberal Party and subsequently getting a massive swing in the safest Labor seat in Queensland. Among the things she says are:

".....I and most Australians want our immigration policy radically reviewed and that of multiculturalism abolished. I believe we are in danger of being swamped by Asians "

".....The majority of Aboriginals do not want handouts as they realise that welfare is killing them. This is why I am calling for ATSIC to be abolished. It is a failed, hypocritical and discriminatory organization that has failed dismally the people it was meant to serve"

".....The Family Law Act, which was the child of the disgraceful Senator Lionel Murphy, should be repealed. It has brought death, misery and heartache to countless thousands of Australians. "

"....if I can invite who I want into my home, then I should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country. A truly multicultural country can never be strong or united....."

October 30, 1997 Pauline Hanson asks Howard in question time "please explain how the government can justify making available to Indonesia what may be as much as $1.7 billion when we already give approximately $90 million in foreign aid $8m of which is for their defence forces?..Is it the policy of this government to prop up questionable and militaristic regimes with appalling human rights records?"

September 1999 Indonesia tries to crush the independence of East Timor and Australian troops are sent to protect the East Timorese.

March 1999 Two part-Aboriginal candidates stand for One Nation in the NSW State Election. The Labor Party and The Greens put them last on their "How to Votes".

November 1999 A Perth aboriginal newspaper, published by the Metropolitan Nyoongar Circle of Elders, interviews Pauline Hanson and supports the call for a Royal Commission into ATSIC

January 28,.2000 Daily Telegraph reports someone from of the Ethnic Communities Council of Victoria criticizing the Federal Government because "the temporary entry permits for refugees are a direct response to the One Nation policies".

August 16, 2000 Sydney Morning Herald reports that Aboriginal Noel Pearson, while delivering the "Light on the Hill" Ben Chifley Lecture in Bathurst, had said the indigenous experience of the welfare state had been "disastrous" and "the real need is for the restoration of social order and the enforcement of law."

November, 2001 Coalition win the Federal Election on the "Tampa" illegal immigrant issue.

2002 Former left wing activist Keith Windschuttle publishes "The Fabrication of Aboriginal History"

June 2,2003 Daily Telegraph reports that ATSIC will virtually cease to exist under changes recommended by a Government ordered review.

July 24 2003 Sydney Morning Herald quotes former PM Malcolm Fraser as saying both major political parties were "largely adopting the policies of Pauline Hanson".

December 30, 2003 Sydney Morning Herald reports that under a radical review of Family Law parents would go to a government shopfront instead of a court designed to encourage more parents to share custody of the one million Australian children who suffer separation.

April 4, 2004 Sydney Morning Herald reports then Opposition Leader Mark Latham saying a Labor Government would abolish ATSIC, as it is "no longer capable of addressing endemic problems in indigenous communities".

October 3, 2004 Sydney Morning Herald reports that Treasurer Peter Costello used a speech on 29th May, at Scots' Church in Melbourne. to 800 evangelical Christians to attack Victoria's racial & religious vilification law. He said "It was the First Fleet that brought the first chaplain and first knowledge of the Christian faith to Australia. This was the critical and decisive event that shaped our country. If the Arab traders that brought Islam to Indonesia had brought Islam to Australia and settled, or spread their faith, amongst the indigenous population, our country today would be vastly different. ...............But that did not happen. Our society was founded by British colonists. And the single most decisive feature that determined the way it developed was the Judeo-Christian-Western tradition. As a society, we are who we are, because of that heritage. I am not sure this is well understood in Australia today ... "

December 6, 2004 Sydney Morning Herald reports Labor's most senior Aboriginal figure, Warren Mundine, has declared it is time to move beyond the "sorry" debate.

February 2005 Irene Wyborn, Aboriginal artist and Chairman of the Jarndu Yawuru Land Council says she is standing as a One Nation candidate in the WA State Election saying "I have been a One Nation supporter since 1997".

February 26, 2006 Sydney Morning Herald reports federal Liberal frontbencher [and former Liberal Party election strategist] responsible for multiculturalism Andrew Robb as saying only education and jobs would stop the young male Muslims from falling prey to extremists.

February 14, 2006 The ABC reports that Danna Vale, Liberal MHR for Hughes, NSW, says Australia could become a muslim country in 50 years, however she apologises for her words later.

February 9 ,2006 Courier Mail reports three Queensland Labor backbenchers have called for an end to multiculturalism, claiming the policy has outlived its usefulness and now encourages segregation, intolerance and violence in the community. The MPs - Andrew McNamara from Hervey Bay, Craig Wallace from Thuringowah and Rachel Nolan from Ipswich - all represent former One Nation seats Mr McNamara blamed multiculturalism for allowing "silos" to rise up in the community and illegal activity to flourish in the shadows. Mr McNamara said he favoured a new policy of "progressive integration" ...... "It is now time to emphasise the core values of Australian culture; respect for the law and democracy, respect for people and respect for private property," he said. Mr Wallace said multiculturalism had been used "as an excuse by certain groups to behave in an un-Australian manner". Mr Wallace said ethnic and religious violence showed multiculturalism bred intolerance.

February 10, 2006 A poll by Channel 9 indicates 93 % of Australians want multiculturalism abolished.

February 24, 2006 Sydney Morning Herald reports that Treasurer, Peter Costello, had criticised "confused, mushy, misguided multiculturalism". They report him as saying "Before becoming an Australian you will be asked to subscribe to certain values. If you have strong objections to those values, don't come to Australia." Mr Costello said those who broke the compact should be stripped of citizenship.

May 15, 2006 ABC Lateline exposes the depredation of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, illustrating the hypocrisy that has surrounded the question for the last 40 years.

February 22, 2007 A visiting Israeli academic, Professor Raphael Israeli, expert in Islamic studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, is reported as saying in the Australian Jewish News "You have to infiltrate all those circles where the Muslim radicals operate..... and to limit immigration into western countries ..."

April 23, 2007 Fred Nile, MLC increases his vote substantially in the NSW State Election by focussing heavily on the dangers of large scale muslim immigration

July 23, 2007 The Sydney Morning Herald reports that John Winston Howard: The Biography, essentially accuses him of bringing on the Tampa crisis to stymie One Nation. The authors detail a revealing exchange between Mr Howard and the then Minister for Sport and Tourism, Jackie Kelly, as they walked into question time on the day the Tampa story broke. "Kelly's seat of Lindsay took in the far western fringes of Sydney," write Wayne Errington and Peter van Onselen. "It was 'Howard battler' territory and Kelly was worried that the boat people issue was reigniting support for One Nation ... 'One Nation is just chewing us up,' Kelly told Howard. 'I've lost two branches to them; one of them is my best fundraising branch. We need to do something or I'm a goner.'

September, 2007 The Federal Coalition Government introduces a new citizenship test.

September, 2007 The equine flu outbreak, which seems to have started in horses imported from Japan, opens peoples' eyes to how privatisation, which One Nation opposes (in this case of Australia's quarantine system) and globalisation, which One Nation also opposes, have destroyed the integrity of Australia's quarantine protection.

October, 2008 De-regulation of the banking system and globalisation of financial services, which One Nation opposes, finally results in a worldwide fianancial collapse.

December, 2008 In the final days of Parliament for the year the Rudd Government starts talking about an "Infrastructure Bank", to finance development and public works, a proposal One Nation has had in its policy since day one.

March 16, 2009 Finally admitting the One Nation view that immigration should be tied to the level of inemployment, following the previous week's jump in unemployment to 5.2 per cent, Immigration Minister, Chris Evans, announces a 14 per cent cut to the skilled migration program, capping the number of workers to enter Australia the next year at 115,000, down from 133,500 in 2008-09. He says "The economic circumstances in Australia have changed as a result of the global financial crisis. It is prudent to reduce this year's migration intake accordingly." He says Australia needs a more targeted list "so that migrant workers are meeting skills shortages and not competing with locals for jobs".

May 23, 2009 The ACTU calls on the Government to make no more free trade agreements, institute a 20 per cent import tariff and have a "buy Australian" policy for Government goods and services procurements.

June 2009 THE New South Wales Government imposes a ban on Chinese goods and services to protect Australian jobs by giving preference to locally made products. Amost $4 billion worth of government goods and services will have to be sourced from Australian companies first in the ban which is to be imposed in the NSW State Budget. The Daily Telegraph reports that all NSW Government departments and agencies will be forced to protect Australian jobs by giving preference to locally made products.

July 2009 A group of six influential economists, in an open letter to Treasurer Wayne Swan, calls for the establishment of a Government owned bank like the Commonwealth Bank once was. One says that a Government presence in the market could help to stimulate competition and give customers better options, and could lead to more affordable home loans and more affordable accounts for customers. A Commonwealth Government-owned bank has always been One Nation policy.

August 7, 2009 Addressing a foreign affairs forum in Melbourne, shortly after several Somali and Lebanese muslims are charged with plotting to attack Holsworthy army base, Federal Labor MP and former shadow Attorney General Kelvin Thomson calls for a big reduction in immigration to allow authorities more time and resources to screen migranrts for terrorist links. According to the SMH he says "Given time, it would be possible to get to the bottom of the background of applicants from Somalia and elsewhere to work out whether they have an association with fundamentalist groups and make a rational assessment of whether they pose a risk.... Reducing our rates of immigration intake to the rates prevailing back in the 1990s would provide authorities with much more time in which to assess applications and thereby improve Australia's security."

June 25, 2010 New Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard announces that the previous Labor Policy of high rates of immigration will be dumped by adopting the One Narion policy of "Sustainable immigration".

July 27, 2010 Greens Senator Christine Milne says on the ABC website “Few are concerned about land being bought by overseas interests, about farmers being driven from the land by low farm gate prices and trade rules which discriminate against Australian growers" exactly what One Nation has been saying for years. She also says "In Australia, [Communist] Chinese interests are looking at buying dairy farms in Tasmania and controlling interests in sugar mills in Queensland. It is impossible to find out how many hectares of Australian farm land has already been bought because the Foreign Investment Review Board does not keep track. How can we plan for food security if we do not even collect relevant information?"