Labor MPs have been handed new talking points – revealing a growing concern about One Nation

Labor and its trade union allies have shifted the focus of their rhetorical attacks, targeting Pauline Hanson as if she is the real opposition leader Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast It was mid-January when Anthony Albanese publicly admitted his “worry” about the rise of One Nation. The prime minister’s concern was not the political risk to himself or to Labor but rather the threat Pauline Hanson posed to the stability of Australia’s two-party system. “I’m a believer in mainstream politics and that the parties of government, it’s important. [It has] served this country pretty well,” Albanese said in an interview on Kiis FM after a January newspoll showed One Nation ahead of the Coalition for the first time. “It [One Nation] is a reality that the Coalition in particular have to deal with.” Five months on, the One Nation threat is also a reality Labor must deal with, after several national opinion polls ranked Hanson’s rightwing populist party the most popular in the country. One Nation this week launched a dedicated fundraising drive to “fire the liar” and Hanson has declared