Australian populist-right senator and founder of One Nation. Her maiden parliamentary speech three decades ago railed against Aboriginal rights and warned that Australia was at risk of being "swamped by Asians".
She has twice worn a burqa in parliament to publicise her campaign to ban face-coverings in public places, earning a week's suspension from the Senate on the second occasion.
In May 2026 she earned the approval of a majority of Australians for the first time. One Nation rejects the scientific evidence of man-made climate change and frames mainstream green policies as part of a global movement using "the excuse of reducing emissions" to control how people move, eat, work and live.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.