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Labor are clearly panicking. It was all fun and games while One Nation were trouncing the Liberals in the polls, but now they’re gunning for Labor and the panic button is getting slammed hard.
Polls last week showed One Nation set to wipe out the Liberals in the upcoming South Australian state election. No worries for Labor, there: their oily Peter Malinauskas is still cruising to victory. Then another poll showed One Nation inching ahead of both the Liberals and the decades-old Labor government.
Now, Labor are getting nervous.
Then the latest polls came out.
One Nation’s popularity has surged in New South Wales, moving ahead of Labor with just a little over a year until the next state election.
NSW is Labor’s holy-of-holies. Their final redoubt, should all other seats fall.
New polling by Roy Morgan showed the ALP received only 25 per cent of the primary vote compared to the Pauline Hanson-led party on 30 per cent, while the Liberal-Nationals trailed on 19 per cent. Minor parties and independents made up the remaining 26 per cent.
It means there would likely be a hung parliament if an election were held today and that voters’ second and third preferences will prove crucial in deciding the make-up of the next NSW Parliament.
Cue the panicked desperation at Labor HQ. And the unhinged attacks.
Labor’s Assistant Multicultural Affairs Minister Julian Hill has called for Pauline Hanson to “sack her d..khead” Hunter candidate after he accused two Muslim men of “looking for explosives” when they visited a mine site to catch up with former colleagues.
Except that what actually happened was something potentially far more sinister.
The backlash comes after [Stuart Bonds] made a post on Sunday that showed CCTV photos of the men at the mine site which were captioned “security breach last night. These two just wandering the site.”
It is understood the photos were leaked by a worker at the site and Mr Bonds claimed “multiple sources” had contacted him about the visit, which was reported to police when an employee asked the men to leave, which they complied with.
Mr Bonds re-posted a message “sent via text” to him that claimed “two Muslim men in full robes” had walked into the site and “asked about the security and location of the explosives”, before he added his own comments.
The men later claimed they were “hoping to see former colleagues”. Sure, at 7pm on a Saturday evening, doesn’t everybody just wander onto a mining site, where they know there’ll be explosives? If you’ve ever had occasion to visit places like that, you’ll know they have pretty strict security protocols. At least, during working hours.
Anyone acting like that would be rightly regarded with suspicion. I’ve worked at events that almost shut down simply because a worker wandered in without identifying himself and left a pot plant in the foyer.
If you see something, say something. Remember that?
Apparently now it’s, If you say something, you’ll be screamed at as a ‘racist’.
This is exactly how enormities from the UK Muslim rape gangs to the Southport stabbing were allowed to happen. Nobody said anything to stop it, because they were afraid of being called ‘racist’.
Mr Bonds has continued to defend himself on social media and said he “not concerned about being called racist for looking out for my community”.
“Nobody and no religion is beyond reproach. Just because you wear different clothing and worship a different god, doesn’t mean you get a leave pass,” he posted to Facebook on Monday.
“I encourage anybody out there, if you see something suspicious, say something.”
That is entirely sensible. If two white guys in hoodies turned up to a sensitive workplace and started wandering around, the cops would be called immediately, and no one would bat an eye.
But we’re dealing with an unhinged establishment who are panicking that their cosy uniparty gig might be coming to an end.
Local Labor MP Dan Repacholi attempted to shut down the social media firestorm sparked by Mr Bond’s posts in his own statement to Facebook this week, in which he accused One Nation of spreading “racist, low-life bullsh*t”.
Or is it because Bonds nearly bumped Repacholi from the seat at the last election? Bonds came second in 2025, with 40 per cent of the vote. In 2019, he almost unseated high-profile Labor MP Joel Fitzgibbon. And now, One Nation are riding high against Labor across NSW.
So expect near-daily hysterical attacks over the next two years.
