August 27, 2026 — 5:00amOne Nation Senator Malcolm Roberts has given yet another interpretation of the party’s migration policy in an interview with an influencer associated with white supremacists, whose apparent membership of One Nation has prompted the Coalition to weaponise Pauline Hanson’s links to extremists.Roberts also defended the right of the nation’s main neo-Nazi group, White Australia, to exist on free speech grounds. The remarks were made during an interview with Andre Mamet, who uses the online moniker “Ausmaxx”, posted to X on Tuesday.One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts pictured with party colleagues Pauline Hanson, Barnaby Joyce and David Farley.Alex EllinghausenMamet is a right-wing influencer who came to attention when he interviewed Hanson at a conservative conference in London in July – during the same week she met controversial far-right activist Tommy Robinson. The 19-year-old has 14,000 followers on Instagram, and 2300 on X.This masthead subsequently reported that Mamet is closely associated with figures who attended Nazi training camps. He also enjoys sponsorship from a bookstore selling Adolf Hitler texts and was a paid-up member of One Nation.One Nation did not deny Mamet was a member earlier this month. But last week, when questions were raised about Mamet condemning criminal charges against National Socialist Network leaders, One Nation claimed Mamet’s membership had lapsed.The party did not provide written evidence of its claim, and a few days later, Mamet contradicted the claim. “They haven’t kicked me out,” he said on stream on X, published last week. “They haven’t disavowed me, which is good.”Mamet’s associate Hugo Lennon, an online influencer who goes by the moniker “auspill” and also a wealthy neo-Nazi associate, suggested he had more links to One Nation than was publicly known.“You don’t even know the connections in One Nation that we have,” Lennon said in the same stream. His accounts have 73,000 followers on TikTok and 55,000 on X.Online networks connected to both men have been furious this week after Hanson issued a statement about One Nation’s reversal of its migration plans.While One Nation’s website promises to cap visas issued at 130,000, which would lead to zero or negative migration, Hanson last weekend said that was instead its “net migration” number. Her intervention came after Farrer MP David Farley, who has a background in agribusiness, suggested the intake under One Nation could be even higher.The difference between the two policies could be as many as 230,000 people arriving in Australia each year.One Nation did not explain when or why it changed its position. However, Farley – who during the byelection said there was probably no problem with the migrant intake of 306,000 – told a podcast with The Conversation last week that he had negotiated with the party to reconcile differences in their positions.“We’ve been able to negotiate in the party. Pauline’s very respectful of what’s required of migration in agriculture ... What we’ve arrived at is a position. The net number we agree 100 per cent on,” he said.“We matched our positions. We negotiated our position to arrive at it.”Farley’s input has been condemned by sections of One Nation’s online support base, who have claimed to be betrayed by the change and urged Hanson to reverse course back to a negative migration policy.Mamet and Scott Challen, who co-founded the “Australian Lobby Group” with right-wing podcast host Sam Bamford, met with Roberts on Tuesday.In a video posted to X afterwards, Challen said: “Let’s be honest, you and I [Mamet] are both way more extreme than where One Nation’s position are, and I’m unapologetic about that.“But they’re the best option that we’ve got in politics right now ... In that meeting, we got the opportunity to explain to Malcolm where our position was.”Roberts appeared to refer to One Nation’s original 130,000 visa cap policy – which is still on the party’s website – during the interview, despite referring to “net” figures.Liberal senator James Paterson.Dominic Lorrimer“I’ve been talking about net negative migration,” he said. “So if 220,000 people leave, and we allow in 220,000, then we can’t do that ... So if you have 130,000 people coming in, that’s a net migration of minus 90,000; in other words, you lose your population by 90,000.”Mamet also asked whether the White Australia Party, which was listed as a prohibited hate group this year under new laws introduced after the Bondi massacre, had a right to exist.“I’m opposed to racism and making decisions based on race, or calling one race superior to another,” said Roberts.“But of course it should have a right to exist. If there’s free speech and freedom of association, you have to have those things. If they start breaking laws and hurting people, then you penalise them in the law.”Opposition frontbencher James Paterson said Hanson, who told this masthead in June her branches had been “infiltrated by extremists”, should denounce Mamet and his associates who support One Nation.“Pauline said she was worried One Nation was being infiltrated by extremists. It turns out she was right to be concerned. This is a test for One Nation. How many Neo-Nazis or white supremacists – or those that defend, minimise or excuse their statements – have they allowed to join their party and will they actually remove them from their ranks?” Paterson said.“No party which aspires to govern – as One Nation claims they are ready to do – should accept extremists as members.”Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. 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