“Crazy” Hanson infrastructure better than this mob

Tuesday 21 July 2026

According to the nation’s most expensive toilet paper, One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has proposed an ambitious infrastructure agenda.

It includes building new dams, completing and extending the Inland Rail to Gladstone, reviving the Bradfield Scheme to divert North Queensland floodwaters into the Murray-Darling Basin.

There is also a 3,300-kilometre Iron Boomerang rail line linking Queensland’s Bowen Basin with Western Australia’s Pilbara.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.