The national primary moved

One Nation says Loy Yang A stays on

Monday at Miners Lookout, Pauline Hanson and Warren Pickering pledged to keep Loy Yang A past 2035, scrap net-zero subsidies, and repeal Victoria’s 1983 nuclear ban. AGL still prints 2035. Election 28 November.

Rowland told Hanson to look inward

After Albanese and Chalmers branded One Nation a danger at Queensland Labor’s conference, Hanson claimed the language invites political violence. The Attorney-General told her to examine her own party instead.

Cash is not a rebuild

ASIC’s Monday review found cash settlements in at least 63 percent of final home claims. IAG and Allianz each used cash in more than 80 percent.

One Nation takes Secret Harbour

Luke Herdegen is One Nation’s first Western Australian lower-house MP after the 29 August 2026 by-election. Labor’s Georgia Tree conceded on 30 August.

Hanson took the energy package to the Press Club on 17 June

Pauline Hanson’s National Press Club address on 17 June put One Nation’s energy plank on a national stage: keep dispatchable plant, treat gas as a strategic asset, stop treating a new gas appliance as a moral problem. Polls that week still had the party at 28–29 percent.

The nuclear sentence is on the Press Club transcript

Hanson’s 17 June National Press Club appearance put civil nuclear back in the national argument: commission a reactor, repeal the net-zero statute that made the conversation feel illegal. Construction is not a 2027 retail product. The conversation is no longer a dare.

Quorn Park is the NEM’s first single-hybrid GPS plant

On 27 August Potentia finished a A$190 million hybrid 10 km northwest of Parkes: 98 MW solar, 20 MW / 40 MWh battery, one GPS, one controller. About 160,000 panels. Zen Energy holds ten years of offtake.

Commonwealth names six groups for Sydney to Newcastle rail

Six consortiums were shortlisted on 24 August for early work on trains and the first tunnels. Planning money is $230 million until 2028. Construction is still listed for 2029.

Midland’s new private hospital opened on Thursday

St John of God Midland Private Hospital opened 27 August 2026. 123 beds in the old railway workshops. Sixty public beds come back with the move.

One Nation previews coal and gas policy at Marnoo

One Nation previewed coal, gas and a VicGrid strip for VNI West at a Farmers Fightback rally. The formal launch is Monday at Yallourn.