Australia politics live: Lambie blasts ‘dangerous’ and ‘delusional’ Hanson; Marles ‘comforted’ by calls for AI pause

Jacqui Lambie has warned Australians not to support a “dangerous” and “delusional” Pauline Hanson , drawing comparisons between the One Nation leader and controversial international leaders.

In a speech during adjournment last night in the Senate, the Tasmanian senator said she had received a stream of abuse after her impassioned defence of Andrew Hastie after he was repeatedly labelled a “traitor” in One Nation’s cartoon series.

double quotation mark One Nation whips up the anger and they tell people who to blame. That’s the populist trick ... It’s a trick Australia, and we’ve got to wake up to it. Because every time a populist leader, like Trump or Farage, get any power, the lives of working people don’t get better. They get worse.