Pauline Warns Australians Can't Go To Lakemba Without Feeling Threatened By Enticing Aromas Of Bengali Chicken Tikka

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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is currently at the meltdown stage that usually follows any surge she's ever made in the polls over the last 30 years.

Much like in 2016, and in the early 2000s, and in the late 1990s - it seems that Pauline cannot seem to help herself when it starts to look like she might be taking a lead.

After the Liberal Party's dismal performance over the last 9 months since a crushing defeat at the hands of Labor in the 2025 Federal Election, frustrated conservative voters had begun indicating that they'd given up on the Federal Coalition - and might be willing to switch to the far-right alternative of One Nation.

After recruiting National Party exile Barnaby Joyce, One Nation reached a high watermark early this month when polls showed that Hanson's Party was polling above 20 per cent nationally.

That ranked them ahead of the combined vote of both Coalition partners.

For 12 hours, they looked a lot like a major party - and political commentators began taking them seriously.

Maybe all of those decades of stunts and tantrums might have been building towards something. Maybe Pauline Hanson knew her day would come.

Or alternatively, maybe voters are just bullshitting the pollsters because they know an election is still three years off and it's the last thing on their minds.

Either way, the honeymoon didn't last longer than a week. Because as of Monday, Pauline could not control her inherrent populist urges to start saying explicitly racist comments - as opposed to her usual 'casually' racist comments.

During an interview with her far-right enablers at Sky News, Pauline Hanson went as far as saying 'there are no good Muslims' in a rant she will now live to regret.

Barnaby Joyce has done his best to back the Senator, but her comments almost definitely rule him out of winning a senate seat in NSW, a much more ethnically and religiously diverse state than Pauline Hanson's Queensland.

Even their biggest supporter in the Coalition, Senator Matt Canavan - a man many tipped would join One Nation - has come out and said she is not fit to lead the country.

Today, knowing her white supremacist base will never allow her to back down and apologise for such comments, she instead doubled down on the ABC.

Hanson claimed there were "certain" suburbs "people can't go into". When pressed further, she named Lakemba in Sydney's Western Suburbs.

"I've been to Lakemba myself, you feel unwanted"

When asked why a 71-year-old multi-millionaire career politician can't go to Lakemba, Hanson began treading water.

"The chicken they put on the skewers over charcoals" she said, describing Bangladeshi chicken tikka.

"The colours. The smell. It's too much. I just want the old Australia back. What''s wrong with an Aussie-style apricot chicken? Why did we have to import so many aromatic recipes. This is not the Australia I know"