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One Nation’s “Fire the liar” rebuttal to Labor’s “fight the far-right” fundraiser has gone primetime.

The clever return to sender was aired at least twice during Wednesday’s State of Origin game.

Authorised by Pauline Hanson, the ad is part of a grassroots response to the Albanese Government rallying its rank and file to “Stop One Nation.”

Canberra Rattled

Hanson’s rebuttal quickly became a phenomenon that rattled Canberra’s uni-party bureaucratic bloc.

So much so that Albanese dismissed the One Nation result, effectively telling reporters he didn’t believe it.

Refuting the fake news insinuation, One Nation commissioned an independent audit. Hanson then published it on X.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, even Liberal senator James Paterson was out discouraging colleagues from “talking about joining forces with “high-risk” One Nation.”

Despite Labor rolling out Rudd/Gillard treasurer Wayne Swan, who tried to play propagandist on the Today show, calling “Fire the Liar” campaign a complete farce.

Before being fact-checked for hypocrisy by Independent MP, Dei Le, Swan reached for class warfare, declaring that,

“One Nation [were] the billionaires’ party.”

“They’re pretending they’re running small donations, and they’re running money from Gina Rinehart and many other wealthy individuals.”

Swan’s clumsy counter-punches only served to vindicate Hanson and make the Albanese government look more dishonest.

Fire the Liar’s Extraordinary Success

Like this week’s 44-24 State of Origin match, the Queenslander won, and won big.

As of Wednesday, Hanson’s “Fire the Liar” rebuttal has raised 4.7 million dollars in just over a week.

The success of which was compounded by Hanson’s first address to the National Press Club on Wednesday.

There are 14 major verifiable lies told by the Labor government over the course of two election wins. The One Nation page only lists 10.

Among those are Labor’s hand in helping the brides of Islamist terrorists return to Australia, mass immigration, energy costs, significant backflips and broken promises.

Hanson’s national address covered all these and more (see here and here).

While One Nation’s clever “Fire the Liar” counter campaign ends on June 30, Hanson’s quick response to political ambushes and lampooning continues to show her savvy ability to return fire.

As Daily Declaration senior editor, Kurt Mahlburg observed on X, “the only way to cut through in this political environment is to learn to eat your enemies’ criticism for breakfast.”

“Pauline Hanson is ascendant because she’s doing exactly that.”

GetUp’s Home Goal

Mahlburg was referring to GetUp’s National Press Club protest.

In an as yet unexplained serious security breach, the organisation tried to portray Hanson as a hypocrite on lies and workers’ rights.

GetUp rigged the banner to a projector screen and deployed it.

Instead of derailing Hanson, the One Nation leader is now using the protest as a profile picture.

I quite liked the glasses GetUp! gave me in their new poster pic.twitter.com/n3zmdSDvwg

— Pauline Hanson 🇦🇺 (@PaulineHansonOz) June 17, 2026

GetUp’s self-own faceplant was as useful to One Nation as Labor’s far-left fearmongering fail.

The banner backfired, and handed Hanson more winsome material to work with.

Media Scrutiny and Media Bans

This also ties in with a keynote from her National Press Club address, where Hanson reaffirmed an invitation for balanced media scrutiny.

“It’s the media’s job to scrutinise One Nation. Unlike the Prime Minister, I welcome it,” Hanson explained in a summary online.

“I’m an elected representative, and I should be scrutinised,” the Queensland senator asserted, adding that “One Nation is probably the most scrutinised party in the country.”

“What I won’t stand for,” she said, “is double standards and outright lies from the media.”

Such as The Guardian, who were “caught out purposely manipulating images to make One Nation look “sinister” and now publishing lies.”

Hanson remarked that she “will always engage with media in good faith, but The Guardian has proven they are completely biased.”

They “won’t provide a balanced view — resorting to lies and manipulation to “get us”, she said.

“Media,” Hanson stated, “has great power and with that comes great responsibility to make sure their bias doesn’t get in the way of the facts.”

Disregarding the reassurances, The Conversation accused Hanson of making “antidemocratic outbursts.” They also strongly implied that One Nation is a threat to freedom of the press.

Handing Hanson the “far-right” fascist trope, then saving themselves from a defamation lawsuit, The Conversation clarified that “she’s not there yet, but her party’s instincts are clear.”

They defended the “Stop One Nation” sympathetic hit pieces from within the ABC and The Guardian, which cherry-picked evidence, then called it “close scrutiny.”

For context, both the ABC and The Guardian have been told they’re no longer welcome at One Nation events and press conferences.

Hypocritically importing American politics into the argument, The Conversation declared,

“To ignore her party’s anti-democratic behaviour shows wilful blindness to what is happening in the United States, and suggests a complacency that it can’t happen here.”

The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance union appears to share the same viewpoint. They consider the One Nation leader “bitter” and abusive.

The union and The Conversation are calling for journalists to make a stand.

Seemingly unaware of the dissonance, as per The Conversation, that means protecting Australia’s democracy by stopping a political party that now carries the voice of a majority of Australians.

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Image: screenshot via X.