{"id":363323,"date":"2026-02-06T09:54:01","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=363323"},"modified":"2026-02-06T09:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T23:54:04","slug":"pauline-hanson-returns-to-senate-pushes-coalition-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=363323","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson Returns to Senate, Pushes Coalition Alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hanson, leader of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=one-nation-party\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"One Nation Party\">One Nation<\/a>, served a seven-sitting-day suspension from November 2025 for wearing a burqa into the chamber to protest the garment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On her return Thursday, she proposed confidence-and-supply support to the Liberal-National Coalition to challenge the Labor-Greens government before the 2028 election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Liberal MP Zoe McKenzie rejected the idea outright, citing policy gaps, while polls show One Nation surging amid voter frustration with debt and living costs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exchange underscores deepening fractures on Australia&#8217;s political right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exchange underscores deepening fractures on Australia&#8217;s political right.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":346484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,999,35],"tags":[9562,14247],"class_list":["post-363323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-australia-politics","category-breaking-news","tag-one-nation-party","tag-pauline-hanson"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363325,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363323\/revisions\/363325"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/346484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}