Article 76JS5 Wayne Swan likens Hanson to Trump and says Labor must stop One Nation’s ‘dark, dystopic picture of the future’

Wayne Swan likens Hanson to Trump and says Labor must stop One Nation’s ‘dark, dystopic picture of the future’

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Tom McIlroy Political editor
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Australian Labor party president says authoritarian trends must not be normalised' in Australia

Labor must not allow increasingly authoritarian trends in Australian politics to become normalised", ALP president Wayne Swan has warned, likening Pauline Hanson's attacks on multiculturalism and journalists to Donald Trump's hostile takeover of American civic life.

A toxic seed blooms into a garden of noxious weeds when we stop gardening," the former treasurer said on Friday.

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