I'd like to see Pauline or anyone else try to cut my age pension and boot me out after I worked and paid tax here for 45 years just because I'm a permanent resident and not a citizen although I believe this wouldn't affect current permanent residents.

I'm from the UK and I've been here since 1961. I never bothered to get Australian citizenship since then, same as the rest of my family who all came from the UK because I never saw the need to.

I was thinking about it in 2007 when I got a new UK passport but I found I could travel overseas and return to Australia just as easily as I could with an Australian passport. The only 'restriction' is that I can't stay out of Australia more than 3 months at a time.

I also have a lifetime 'authority to return' that I got with an earlier UK passport in 1977 which carries over to new passports, of course. Can't get those anymore, I believe they now have to be renewed every year (or 5 years if you choose that option).

Anyway, this whole topic is pointless because I'm 100% certain Pauline will never become Prime Minister of Australia. And, thank goodness for that.

Carl D wrote on Aug 6^th, 2026 at 10:06am:


It is different to British citizens who have been here since before 1984. Until then all Autralians were also British subjects.

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Preference deals, and a coalition of extreme right parties could form government in 2028. If 1N was the biggest faction, then the PM will come from that party.

If not Pauline, it could be Lee, her daughter. Pauline could then use her for Gina's puppet.

“We don’t need any more Uber drivers, nail technicians, dog walkers. These people – gone. Stop all that.

"Why do we need people coming in with foreign students? Why do they need their families? You’re here to study if you want to be. You don’t want to be away from your partner or family, do an online course.”

“That’s a strain on our infrastructure, and then we’ve got 432,000 people on bridging visas in Australia. Why? This is all impacting our country because the governments have been lax in getting rid of those people that should not be here.”


One Nation leader Pauline Hanson says Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke‘s decision to cancel an address unveiling Labor’s plan to overhaul the nation’s immigration settings was made to appease the unions, progressive segments of his own party and The Greens.

Committing to mass deportations of illegal immigrants, drastic cuts to the number of permanent migrants and downplaying her policy’s impact on skill shortages, Senator Hanson told News24 both the government and the Coalition were concerned by rising support for One Nation’s strong rhetoric on immigration, and agreed with the suggestion she was “living rent free in Tony Burke’s head”.

“They’re scared to do anything because of the support that One Nation is getting, and I think we’re having the same impact on the Coalition as well. They’re both really concerned about the support they’re getting based on the one issue that is mass migration that’s happening in Australia,”

“So (Tony) Burke’s saying hey, I really need to pull back on my speech that I was going to give at the press club because he’s got to appease the unions, he’s got to appease the other left leaning in his party as well, and The Greens. So he’s got a battle on his hands.

“There’s between 75,000 and I’ve heard 100,000 people that are in the country illegally at the moment … The taxpayers have had enough of this.”

Confirming her party’s 130,000 cap would apply to permanent migrants into Australia, Senator Hanson claimed it was an “absolute scam” that so few migrants to Australia were entering the construction sector.

Massive longterm income loss for the majority of workers, due to the rollout of Ai/robots, the government, whoever it is, will have to fund it.

Non dual Australian citizens.

Only figure I can find about dual citizens in year 2000, 5 million. For fun, estimate 8 million, that makes it about 20 million and half the dual citizens renounce their other citizenships.

24 million @ 1000 a week = $1.25 trillion for the first year, increasing with inflation.