{"id":37743,"date":"2026-06-24T19:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/37743\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T19:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T19:10:10","slug":"you-should-not-be-making-mistakes-pauline-hanson-scolds-farley-after-mining-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/37743\/","title":{"rendered":"‘You should not be making mistakes’: Pauline Hanson scolds Farley after mining vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pauline Hanson says she served the freshly-minted Farrer MP an earful after his vote on a fuel tax credit bill amendment sparked immediate industry backlash.<\/p>\n

David Farley\u00a0sided with Greens and\u00a0teal MPs in a division to cap fuel tax credit rebates for large mining companies in the lower house before it was defeated by Labor and the Coalition.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The amendment angered the Minerals Council of Australia\u00a0(MCA)\u00a0before\u00a0One Nation scrambled to\u00a0clarify their position and\u00a0Mr Farley blamed the saga on inexperience<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ms Hanson on Wednesday night told Sky News Australia she told\u00a0Mr\u00a0Farley \u201cyou should not be making a mistake\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe has made some\u00a0previous\u00a0mistakes, and\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0not going to deny\u00a0that,\u00a0I will own\u00a0it,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI said to David, I said, \u2018this is the problem\u2019,\u00a0I said, \u2018I\u2019ve worked 30 years to get here to stand up and fight for the Australian people\u2019.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I said, \u2018your performance in there is going to reflect on me and the One Nation, my members here that\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0worked so hard to\u00a0represent\u00a0the Australian people, do you understand what\u00a0I\u2019m\u00a0saying?\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018Pauline, I\u2019m orange\u2019,\u00a0he said, \u2018I agree with all your policies\u2019,\u00a0and he said it was a mistake, and so anyway, I can\u2019t say any more than that.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr\u00a0Farley issued a statement through the party on Wednesday evening saying he had sought to correct his vote after the fact but could\u00a0not, and\u00a0pointed to One Nation\u2019s \u201coverworked\u201d advisors.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ms\u00a0Hanson backed his position, saying Parliament was a \u201cbloody robust\u201d place.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact is,\u00a0he\u2019s\u00a0got no staff in his office. Barnaby [Joyce] is not around.\u00a0We\u2019ve\u00a0tried to have our meetings of the morning to guide them through,\u00a0because\u00a0the upper and the lower house, you\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0have connection with them,\u201d she\u00a0said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re\u00a0not perfect, when you\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0have the resources, I\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0have the resources in my office.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI said, \u2018David, next week I will actually give you one of the staff out\u00a0of\u00a0my office or out of the other Senators to try and help you get through next week.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr Farley\u2019s rogue vote came after he\u00a0split\u00a0with official One Nation policies on a few occasions<\/a>\u00a0since becoming a representative of the party.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mr\u00a0Farley also voted alongside Greens and\u00a0teals on a failed motion, raised by\u00a0Kooyong\u00a0MP Monique Ryan, to pursue\u00a0further\u00a0gambling reforms.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

His vote on the fuel tax cap drew immediate condemnation from the MCA\u2019s chief executive, Tania Constable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said his position was \u201creally disappointing\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Farley is a regional member and it was his first big opportunity to show what he\u2019s made of, and he voted against regional Australia,\u201d she told Sky News Australia.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe voted against the farmers, the fishers, the\u00a0construction industry. He voted against the miners. He voted against regional Australia and\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0really deeply\u00a0disappointed that he threw his lot in with the Greens and the\u00a0teals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Farley, teals and the Greens supported the fuel rebate amendment moved by independent MP Nicolette Boele before debate wrapped in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Labor and the Coalition opposed the measure, which would have capped rebates under the fuel tax credit scheme at $50 million a year for mining companies.<\/p>\n

The funds would then be redirected to renewables infrastructure and an \u201corderly phase-out of fuels\u201d eligible under the scheme.<\/p>\n

The amendment was defeated, but Mr Farley\u2019s vote has sparked speculation about where his allegiances really lie.<\/p>\n

Shadow treasurer Tim Wilson told Sky News on Wednesday the vote showed One Nation was \u201call over the place\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, it’s a fascinating revelation \u2026 It shows they’re all over the place in terms of their agenda and what they’re doing, what they’re voting for,\u201d Mr Wilson told Sky News.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don’t really know where it is they stand or who they’re fighting for, but that’s a matter for them.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson says she served the freshly-minted Farrer MP an earful after his vote on a fuel tax…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[22,21,31490,1488,11674,152,157],"class_list":["post-37743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-austrlia","tag-farley","tag-farrer","tag-hanson","tag-news","tag-sky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}