One Nation leader Pauline Hanson would have failed to secure fuel supplies if she was prime minister at the height of this year’s oil crisis because of her remarks about Asians and Muslims, Anthony Albanese has said in a fresh rebuke of the senator’s call for a monocultural Australia.Speaking at a forum in Western Sydney, the Prime Minister on Friday praised the region’s diversity, declaring that one of its “great assets” is “the connections with everywhere in the world”.“And that’s what makes it easier to do business. That’s what makes it easier to be respected,” he said.He pointed to the fuel supply fears spurred by the Iran conflict, which he described as “a war of which we’re not protagonists on the other side of the world” that threatened Australia’s ability to “get goods on supermarket shelves” and pushed up global inflation.Mr Albanese noted statements, including from One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce, that “there would need to be rationing of fuel in Australia before Easter”.“Can you imagine a Pauline Hanson or the chaotic conglomeration that sits opposite us going into Asia and saying we need support from Singapore, Malaysia, Brunei, China – for jet fuel – Japan and South Korea?” he said.“I reckon they probably remember what she has said about them.”Senator Hanson has sparked numerous controversies for her comments about Asians and Muslims throughout her 30 years in parliament, from saying Australia was “in danger of being swamped by Asians” in her 1996 maiden speech to claiming there were no “good” Muslims in the wake of the Bondi Beach terror attack.Most of Australia’s closest and biggest trading partners are Asian, including Muslim-majority Indonesia.Senator Hanson last month ignited a national conversation about Australian identity by calling for “monoculturalism” – a concept she and other members of her party have struggled to define.In remarks to press last week, she said it was about Australian pride and respecting military service and the national flag.“And it’s basically saying we have our culture, we have our identity, we have our Australian larrikinism – that’s all part of it,” she said, adding “there’s many things”.Pointing to the Socceroos, Senator Hanson said many of the players were “from different cultures”.“But they’re in there to play the game for Australia, to represent the Australian flag, the Australian people, the Australian country as one,” she said.“They’re playing by one set of rules and that’s what monoculturalism is.”Asked how that was different to multiculturalism, Senator Hanson and her fellow One Nation parliamentarians ridiculed the journalist who posed the question.