Hanson to shovel into coal divide

POLITICAL phoenix Pauline Hanson will today launch her Queensland election bid by saturating Lnp-held mining seats and hightailing it to Clermont to get ahead of antiAdani protesters.

The One Nation Leader will inject herself into the bust-up between the LNP and The Greens over coal, while accusing the leaders of both major parties of being beholden to inner- city MPS pushing a clim a t e - c h a n g e agenda.

Senator H a n s o n , (pictured), who spent the first week of the campaign in South Australia with her Senate candidates, is aiming to capitalise on the blowback from Clermont residents who are refusing to serve the Bob Brown anti-adani convoy when they arrive on Saturday.

“Go back to where you came from. You’re not welcome,’’ Senator Hanson said yesterday to the convoy, making a play on the same words she made during her maiden speech in 2016 about Muslim migrants not prepared to “give this country your undivided loyalty”.

“I don’t blame these people in Clermont for refusing to serve these ratbags who don’t know the first thing about mining towns and how coal mining is the lifeblood of central Queensland, and much of the state,’’ Senator Hanson said yesterday.

“The Greens and Labor parties’ plan to shut down coal mining and transition workers into new industries would be a coward’s punch to regional towns where our candidate for Capricornia Wade Rothery has lived.”

Senator Hanson has plastered her vehicle with the slogan, “Pauline Digs Coal”.