Hanson called domestic violence a two-way street. It was the least of One Nation's problems this week.

Pauline Hanson has been through domestic violence herself. She said so on the radio this week, in the middle of explaining why she thinks abused women should simply leave.

Asked on Brisbane's 4BC about men who abuse their partners, the One Nation leader called domestic violence a “two-way street.”

“Domestic violence is a scourge but look … I've been through it myself in my life,” Ms Hanson said. “And I just feel if you're not in a house where you feel safe … then you shouldn't put up with it. If these women are getting abused by men out there, then don't put up with it.”

Just leave. As though the leaving were the easy part, and not the point at which women are most often killed.

Brittany Higgins called it out. “Normalising this victim blaming rhetoric in relation to domestic violence when 38 Australian women have already been lost to femicide this year is atrocious,” she wrote.

Ms Hanson has been here before. In 2019 Scott Morrison made her deputy chair of a parliamentary inquiry into family law, and she used the platform to claim some women lie about abuse to win custody. She offered no evidence then. She offered none now.

Before the week's controversies at home, Hanson sat for an hour-long interview with British far-right activist Tommy Robinson. Photo: AAP

On Facebook she doubled down, insisting the media had twisted her words, then repeating them. Women “can lose their cool as well.” Everyone is “under so much pressure.” The clarification said exactly what the original said.

And it was still not the worst thing One Nation did this week.

The same day, the party's MPs were busy distancing themselves from Malcolm Roberts, after a video surfaced of the Queensland senator declaring that COVID-19 deaths were faked.

“Major news broadcasters had these videos of people dying in their droves in makeshift morgues,” Senator Roberts said, of the pandemic that killed more than seven million people worldwide. “We didn't realise until fairly recently that those were all staged. They're bullshit.”

Malcolm Roberts, pictured with Pauline Hanson in the Senate, claimed on video that COVID-19 deaths were staged. Photo: AAP

This is the same Malcolm Roberts The Glass has documented at length — the Alex Jones appearance, the sovereign citizen letter, the banking “cabal.” The COVID claim is not a departure. It is the catalogue's newest entry.

Barnaby Joyce, asked to respond, managed that Senator Roberts was “a great guy, he's so smart,” but that on the specific matter of whether a global pandemic was staged, “I don't concur with his view.”

Mr Joyce had his own week. On Monday night he yelled at his dog to sit down midway through a sentence on ABC's 7.30, then apologised for it. “You couldn't hear it, but I could. And it was under my skin.”

Barnaby Joyce declined to back Senator Roberts's COVID claim, and had his own week when he yelled at his dog on live television. Photo: AAP

All of this — the DV comments, the COVID denial, the dog — landed in a single week, on a party that keeps rising anyway.

That is the part the major parties can't explain. One Nation has spent 2026 climbing through every controversy that would have sunk anyone else, its primary vote pushing to record highs and, in some polls, past Labor's. A worse week than most politicians survive in a term appears to have cost it nothing.

One Nation has spent the year insisting it is the voice of ordinary Australians the major parties ignore. This week it got the microphone all to itself — and the audience only grew.

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