Assistant Defence Minister Peter Khalil has unleashed on One Nation as Pauline Hanson’s once-minor party continues to make gains in the polls.
The Labor MP on Wednesday said Ms Hanson’s party offered “slogans not solutions” and used hot-button issues to drive support “without doing any real work”.
“The reason I’m annoyed about this is all the circus that’s going on, all the attention that is focused on them and all the slogans that they’re putting out there,” Mr Khalil told Sky News Political Presenter Tom Connell.
“It annoys me because I care about this country, I care about Australia, and I’m in the game of politics because I want to serve the country that has given me so much and I’ve actually done the work.”
One Nation leads Sky News and YouGov’s exclusive Pulse poll with 29 per cent of primary voting intention.
Labor trails with 26 per cent of vote intention. The Coalition is languishing in third place with just 20 per cent.
