Offensive tirades on race and religion shouldn’t be the norm in Australian politics

<p>A racist AI-generated video is the latest offensive stunt by One Nation. Now Pauline Hanson’s attack on Mehreen Faruqi needs to be settled by the courts</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">new political email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>It is remarkable just how little reaction the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/09/one-nations-ai-video-is-vile-and-tired-but-the-ensloppification-of-australian-politics-doesnt-stop-there-ntwnfb">latest incendiary video</a> released by Pauline Hanson attracted this week.</p><p>Drawing generously from a campaign commercial released by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, earlier this year, Hanson’s ad for next month’s Victorian state election shows a family of supposedly inner-city Melbourne progressives who come out to each other as secret conservatives.</p><p><strong><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/28/politics-really-newsletter-guardian-australia-free-best-daily-auspol-email-subscribe?CMP=copyembed">Sign up for Guardian Australia’s Politics, really newsletter here</a></strong></p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/oct/09/it-will-be-painful-and-expensive-but-pauline-hanson-v-mehreen-faruqi-needs-to-be-settled-by-the-court-ntwnfb">Continue reading...</a>