Pauline Hanson “mayhem” for Morrison over vaccine mandates

Pauline Hanson has labelled Scott Morrison a “coward”, declaring One Nation will make it difficult for his government to pass any legislation this year unless it takes action to oppose vaccine mandates.

One Nation’s Pauline Hanson is threatening to deliver “mayhem” to the Morrison Government’s agenda in the final weeks of the year, revealing they will vote against all its legislation unless it takes action to oppose vaccine mandates.

The move will make it extremely difficult for the government to pass any legislation before the end of the year, when it will be looking to secure a win as it heads into campaign mode.

Promising to “cause so much mayhem” in parliament for Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Senator Hanson will on Friday declare the bold power play.

One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson is promising “mayhem” unless the Morrison Government takes action to oppose vaccine mandates. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Peter Lorimer.

In direct reaction to the Queensland Government announcing restrictions on unvaccinated people from December 17, Senator Hanson is demanding the Morrison Government take action to ban any rules she says discriminate against unvaccinated people.

“We’re not anti-vaxxers we’re freedom of choice. Scott Morrison says he believes in freedom of choice, well, he’s a coward,” Senator Hanson said.

“I’m going to cause so much mayhem in that parliament, as Scott Morrison is doing to the Australian people.”

The vote boycott means the government will require the support of all three remaining crossbenchers, Jacquie Lambie, Rex Patrick and Stirling Griff, to pass any contested legislation.

It comes on the back of one of its own Senators, the LNP’s Gerard Rennick, announcing he will abstain on all government legislation unless certain steps are taken regarding vaccine mandates.

One of the key pieces of contested legislation coming up includes requiring voters to bring identification to the ballot box, or make a declaration vote.

Senator Hanson said she supported the proposed law, but she would still vote against it if needed.

“We might lose that but this is a bigger issue to me,” she said.

One Nation has a proposed bill before the Senate opposing “discrimination on the basis of Covid-19 vaccination”.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the Coalition does not have a mandatory vaccination policy. Picture: William West/AFP

Mr Morrison yesterday said the Federal Government did not have a mandatory vaccine policy.

“That’s not something that we have done. We respect people’s choices,” he told Sunrise.

“We’ll hit 90 per cent first dose this weekend for the whole country. And we got there because we’ve just trusted Australians.

“They know what they need to do. But, you know, we live in a country where we’re not going to go around demonising those who want to make their own choices.”

Originally published as Pauline Hanson “mayhem” for Morrison over vaccine mandates