Pauline Hanson faced off against Nationals Leader Matt Canavan at the 2026 National Bush Summit in Dubbo, a day after her lieutenant Barnaby Joyce answered questions on drought preparedness.
Ms Hanson says the conservative side of politics should work together to defeat Labor.
“Our enemy now, and I’m telling you, who’s ruining this country is the Labor-Greens. That’s why we, as the conservative side, have to start working together,” she says.
During a tense moment, Ms Hanson demands Mr Cananvan to take her seriously, saying,
“Stop knocking me.”
“It just annoys me, you know, to to make me as if I’m irrelevant in this, as if I’ve got nothing to offer politics,” she said, and notes One Nation opposed net zero before the Coalition.
Mr Canavan said with more than half of Australia’s population living in just five cities, it was time to develop the rest of the nation.
Earlier, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was heckled at the Bush Summit, copping a grilling on issues including renewable energy and over-regulation of businessnes in the bush.
He was also asked about migration and whether Labor’s upcoming overhaul is a response to the rise of One Nation and Pauline Hanson.
Meanwhile, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor doubled down against the use of agricultural land for carbon farming after the Clean Energy Finance Corporation involvement in helping a British consortium purchase Rushy Lagoon, one of Australia’s biggest farms in Tasmania.
The Opposition Leader labelled the conversion as “disgrace” and vowed that “it will not happen under a Taylor-Canavan government.
“We need to use every bit of productive agricultural land we can in this country for growing food and fiber,” he said.
The Sunday Telegraph’s editor Anna Caldwell said that while Mr Taylor is “a country boy,” she said One Nation is “outpacing you,” and asked for three things the Coalition wants to do that both One Nation “can’t or wont”.
Mr Taylor clapped back with a four-point plan – reverse Labor’s tax changes, reduce the cost of energy, cap permanent immigration based on housing supply and limit welfare programs like the NDIS to Australian citizens.
NSW and Australia Premier Chris Minns, South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas and Western Australia Deputy Premier Rita Safiotti also joined the panel, with migration, bird flu, rising crime levels and the dire state of regional roads discussed.
This article is part of the Bush Summit series supported by Hancock Prospecting, Woolworths, Ampol, AAMI, Toyota, Powerhouse Museum, Clubs NSW, Qantas, The South Australian Government, Northern Territory Government, Invasive Species Council, Cruise Lines International Association, Greyhounds NSW, Charles Sturt University and Dubbo Regional Council.
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Originally published as Pauline Hanson, Matt Canavan clash; Anthony Albanese heckled; Angus Taylor slams Labor’s ‘disgrace’
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