Pauline Hanson, leader of the minor right-wing One Nation party and Queensland senator, used her first-ever address to Australia's National Press Club in Canberra to declare that the country "cannot be a multicultural society" and must exist under a single cultural identity, blaming high immigration for eroding national values. In a wide-ranging 51-minute speech, she pledged to abolish the multicultural broadcaster SBS, restructure the ABC (Australia's public broadcaster), cut immigration levels to ease the housing crisis, ban abortions after 20 weeks, and dismiss the country's sex discrimination commissioner, while also attacking government action on climate change and renewable energy. The speech comes as One Nation gains ground in national opinion polls and Hanson outpaces Prime Minister Anthony Albanese as preferred prime minister in recent polling, signalling the party's growing influence ahead of the next federal election.