Pauline Hanson’s war on everyone now includes unions. Minimum wages, union power and employee entitlements have been added to her lengthy list of aversions.With private sector union membership in Australia at less than 8 per cent, One Nation has obviously made a tactical assessment that attacking unions will help its vote. This is the One Nation MO, choosing targets that maximise poll surges. That might be enough to make mining companies think hard about giving Hanson a jet or a bulldozer.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Labor’s IR agenda, not One Nation, is the Coalition’s real threat
If it keeps dancing around Pauline Hanson’s party instead of fighting the industrial relations changes, the Coalition will condemn its business base to bankruptcy.











