Green Left has always exposed Hanson’s lies and shouted our opposition to her divisive and demoralising political project that will only make working peoples’ lives worse to benefit big business.
We promote anti-racist organising that contests Hanson’s attempts to normalise her politics and claim more public space. Anything we can do to intercept people who might otherwise be drawn to the far right and to help arm progressive-minded people with the counter-arguments is vital.
Right now, we are redoubling these efforts.
However, we cannot defeat Hanson through the force of ideas alone. Put another way, it is not enough to confront lies and bad ideas with good ideas and the truth.
To rely on that is to underestimate the economic and historic conditions that have led to the rise of One Nation.
Working people have endured more than four decades of neoliberalism — privatisation, contracting out, insecure work and the agonising housing crisis — inflicted on them alternatively by Labor and Coalition governments. Alongside this, there has been a collapse in the frequency of industrial action, as measured by days lost to strikes.
This means that a whole generation of workers has lost the practical experience and historical knowledge that when we band together and fight for our rights, we can win.
At the same time, Labor and the Coalition have encouraged racist scapegoating, through two decades of their cruel and illegal treatment of refugees and, most recently, through their outright support for Israel’s genocide in Gaza. | 
