"We are being taken for bloody fools."

If there's one sentence that sums up Pauline Hanson's attitude to Australia's place in the world, this probably is it. 

With One Nation running red hot in the polls and posing a serious challenge to the incumbent parties, there's more and more scrutiny on what its policies would mean for Australia. 

This month the right-wing populist political party led against both major political parties in an opinion poll by RedBridge Group and Accent Research.

Senator Hanson now has Barnaby Joyce as her "treasury spokesman" and the backing of billionaire Gina Rinehart, with whom she says she consults on policy.

In response, Labor has launched a fundraising campaign to fight Pauline Hanson’s political movement, while the opposition has left the door open to a preference deal with the party.

And that means it's worth taking a look at how a government run, or heavily influenced, by One Nation would approach the world outside its borders.

So, what sort of foreign policy might it adopt?

What might it mean for Australia's place in this region, and for our ties across Asia?

And what are the implications for our national security and strategic position if any government followed through with it?

Answering these questions isn't always easy.

The party doesn't have a detailed foreign policy platform on its website, and its political preoccupations have usually been domestic — not international.

When Pauline Hanson was asked to describe her foreign policy this week she kept her answer very brief and very generic, saying it was "important to have diplomatic relations with many countries around the world".

READ MORE: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06-21/one-nation-foreign-policy-revealed/106822090

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