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<\/p>\nPrime Minister Anthony Albanese has declared he \u201cowes it to history\u201d to defeat One Nation, obsessing over the minor party in a major speech to the Queensland Labor Party.<\/p>\n
Addressing Labor Party delegates on Sunday, Mr Albanese warned that \u201chard right populists\u201d were on the march, describing their politics as \u201cdangerous\u201d and \u201cdivisive\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe simply must defeat them. We owe it to history. We owe it to the nation. And we will defeat them,\u201d Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n
He accused One Nation of saying and doing \u201canything\u201d to win votes, bending facts, peddling misinformation and turning Australians against each other.<\/p>\n
Mr Albanese also attacked the party’s policy record, accusing it of having no serious answers to policy problems and pointing to internal confusion over immigration.<\/p>\n
He said One Nation believed Australians were \u201clazy\u201d and \u201coverpaid\u201d, while also accusing the party of believing \u201cdomestic violence is sometimes a woman’s fault\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister said One Nation was also \u201cnot on the side of working people\u201d, claiming it had a plan to cut penalty rates.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe only mainstream political force in Australia that seeks to govern in the interests of the Australian people in our own right is the Australian Labor Party,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
However, One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce rejected Mr Albanese’s characterisation of the party on Sunday, accusing the PM of relying on \u201ctropes\u201d and \u201cbromides\u201d.<\/p>\n
“We have these tropes, bromides and basically fallacious statements that are dribbled out. (They say) ‘we’re racist’, we’re not. ‘We’re homophobes’, we are not,” Mr Joyce said.<\/p>\n
Asked about Mr Albanese’s claim that One Nation believed domestic violence could sometimes be a woman’s fault, Mr Joyce said the accusation was \u201ccrazy\u201d.<\/p>\n
He defended Ms Hanson, saying her experience as a single mother from the western suburbs of Ipswich had made her aware of the factors surrounding domestic violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe does not want to bar of any person, any man who, for some disgraceful reason, decides that they want to hit a woman,\u201d Mr Joyce said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s not about Pauline. That\u2019s about 99 per cent of Australians. It\u2019s anathema to us. It is disgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Mr Joyce also rejected Mr Albanese’s claim that One Nation opposed penalty rates, instead launching a broader attack on the Prime Minister’s credibility.<\/p>\n
He accused Mr Albanese of repeatedly saying one thing and doing another, saying Australians \u201cjust can’t believe these people\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is coming from a man who said he didn’t fall off the stage and he did. He didn’t insult the Prime Minister of (Japan) and he did,\u201d Mr Joyce said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe wasn’t going to change the capital gains tax rates and he did. You just can’t believe these people. They created the metaphor for themselves. They are liars, right?\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Joyce dismissed the Prime Minister’s speech as not worth listening to, telling voters to \u201cfind something good on Netflix\u201d instead.<\/p>\n
Mr Albanese’s latest attack marks a continuation of an increasingly prominent Labor strategy of directly targeting One Nation as the party’s support has risen.<\/p>\n