Updated July 19, 2026 — 9:36am,first published July 18, 2026 — 5:45am
London: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has told a right-wing conference in Britain that Australian authorities are “stupid” for giving rights to transgender people, as she blasted the concept of white privilege and called for cuts to migration.
Hanson said Australia should learn from the UK in defining a woman to exclude trans people who identified as female, singling out an Australian decision that recognised discrimination against a transgender woman.
But her address to the Conservative Political Action Committee in London drew a modest crowd, with only about 130 people turning up to a hotel function room that was less than one-third full.
Rows of chairs were empty during Hanson’s heavily promoted address, in her most significant appearance in Britain after her holiday in Sicily with mining billionaire Gina Rinehart.
