'You wont last the distance': Pauline Hanson reveals what she told Liberal leader Sussan Ley at private dinner
Speaking to Sky News Australia's Andrew Bolt, the One Nation leader said she had spoken to Ms Ley about her electoral chances over the meal.
'Look Sussan is a nice woman, by all means, but she's not a conservative. To me, she's too far on the left,' Senator Hanson said.
'I actually had dinner with her and I actually said to her face, I said: 'Sorry Sussan, you won't last the distance. You won't be there at the next election'."
The One Nation leader said she had acknowledged the Opposition Leader might prove her wrong, and Ms Ley had said she would do just that, but the Queensland Senator remained unconvinced.
'I don't believe she will be there for the long term and especially she won't be as leader of the conservative party – of the Liberals – leading into the next election,' Senator Hanson said.
The One Nation Leader said the Coalition had not 'put across clear policies' and were lacking in conviction.
'When I put up a bill that I want a Senate inquiry into gender dysphoria and what is happening with these puberty blockers and kids having these operations and bits and pieces cut off… (the Coalition) were kicking and screaming, in the beginning not even (wanting) to vote,' she said.
'They wouldn't even support it, they all left the chamber, and that was necessary for the parents to have their say (in) what was happening to their children.
'They can't even face that. They're… defending the female sector and this transgender rubbish that's going on at the moment, or kids in the educational system told you can choose whether you want to be a boy or a girl.
'How can you stand back and see this going on and not speak up against it?'
Senator Hanson said throughout her career she had been a 'conviction politician' and people were waking up.
'We address issues about cutting 90 billion out of the budget every year to put more money in the pockets of Australians. We're addressing taxation, looking after pensions, self-funded retirees, income splitting in the households," she said.
'We've addressed many other issues too… over the years (including)… multiculturalism, immigration, Vovid-19, the Voice, all these issues in industries, manufacturing, the farming sector, the dairy industry, the live sheep exports.
'I've actually led the way with my policies… the Liberals always seem to follow it in my wake. But the people there are starting to wake up. They're fed up with the major political parties.
Senator Hanson said 35 per cent of Australians had not voted for the major parties at the last election and One Nation were already polling at 9 per cent – a 50 per cent increase since the election.
'We've won 11 seats in the nine years that I have been here back in Parliament, since 2016 we've actually won 11 seats in state and federal politics, and a couple of council elections,' she said.
'On top of that as well, we now have the same number of senators as the National Party has and they've been around for what, 50 or 60 years?
'I'm going to drive this party, because one day I want One Nation to take government. I'm fed up with the major political parties. I'm fed up with this country being in moral decline, the loss of our standard of living, the policies that they are doing.
'There is no conviction politicians, no one that's patriotic to this country and driving the issues that I see that future generations are going to be paying back a debt and will be living in third world conditions.'
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