Indigenous Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has rejected comparisons between One Nation and the Greens, arguing the former are "not anti-Australian".
This week, it was revealed One Nation had changed its how-to-vote cards to preference the Coalition in at least ten marginal seats. It comes as Labor were attacked by the Coalition for preferencing the Greens in nearly all its lower house seats.
The supposed hypocrisy has been alluded to, with One Nation regularly labelled racist in their policies and public comments. Last year, their leader and founder, Pauline Hanson, was found guilty of breaching section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act for racially discriminatory social media comments regarding NSW Senator Mehreen Faruqi.
In 2022, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) added One Nation, along with the Australian Christian Lobby, to its registry of Australian hate groups, describing their ideology as focused on anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, white nationalist, and conspiracy theories.
One Nation has also appointed convicted rapist Sean Black as its campaign director, despite a judge stating he showed no remorse for raping and assaulting his former wife when he was imprisoned in 2018.
However, Senator Price, who has been open in her criticism of the Greens, as well as left-wing politics in general, said the comparison between Labor giving preferences to the Greens, and the Coalition giving them to One Nation, was "utterly ridiculous".
She told Sky News, "The Greens are absolute radicals. One Nation aren't radical like the Greens."
"I mean, the antisemitism that we have seen increase in our country and the division that we've seen increase in our country is ridiculous," the NT Senator said, alluding to claims made by the Coalition and some Jewish groups that the Greens' support and comments around Israel and the conflict in Gaza equate to antisemitism.
"The Greens are a very dangerous party who are anti-Australian, let's face it. One Nation is not anti-Australian."
Senator Price offered Senator Hanson's support for her long-held calls for an audit into Indigenous spending, and the royal commission into sexual abuse in remote Indigenous communities - widely rejected by Indigenous groups as politically divisive and unnecessary - as evidence of One Nation's pro-Australian bona fides.
Earlier this month, the NT Senator faced sustained criticism for uttering a Donald Trump-esque slogan, "Make Australia Great Again," before photos emerged of her wearing a Donald Trump hat—something she later described as a "joke".
Several Indigenous groups and bodies have criticised her positions, including land councils in the NT. However, Senator Price has pushed back, regularly arguing she is speaking for communities on the ground.
The Coalition has also been criticised for a lack of policies centred around First Nations people, with Senator Price's audits and royal commission calls regularly slammed as not policies, but rather slogans.
On Sky News, she argued the Greens' policy towards Indigenous affairs was "completely out of touch".
"It's the reason why Lidia Thorpe left the Greens because she understood the fact that they weren't interested in listening to Indigenous voices. They have their own agenda - I mean, it's quite infantilising," Senator Price said.
"The Greens that we have in the Territory who talk a big talk about treaty and culture and all those things, but they are aligned with outfits like the Environmental Defenders Office (EDO), who exploit Aboriginal people and make up fake Indigenous dreaming stories for their own agendas – to block projects."
Last year, a judge found some of the EDO's consultants engaged in a "subtle form of coaching" of Tiwi Islands witnesses, and that the cultural mapping exercises involved a degree of "confection or construction" and were "so lacking in integrity that no weight can be placed on them", in its bid to stop Santos's Barossa gas pipeline west of the Tiwi Islands.
The Greens have faced criticism for their position regarding the Gaza conflict, including from former Labor Senator and Indigenous woman, Nova Peris, who has campaigned against the party – partly on their stance towards Israel – arguing they have "lost their way".