Coalition to back One Nation policy barring overseas Australians with terrorist links from returning home

<p>Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan will support Pauline Hanson’s migration bill despite vowing to fight her rightwing party</p><ul><li><p>Get our <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/email-newsletters?CMP=cvau_sfl">breaking news email</a>, <a href="https://app.adjust.com/w4u7jx3">free app</a> or <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/series/full-story?CMP=cvau_sfl">daily news podcast</a></p></li></ul><p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jul/29/guardian-essential-poll-angus-taylors-approval-rating-crashes-and-one-nation-support-plateaus">Coalition</a> will back a plan by Pauline Hanson to prevent Australian citizens with links to overseas terrorist groups from returning home, significantly elevating One Nation’s policy prescriptions on matters of national security.</p><p>Despite pledging to fight Hanson’s insurgent rightwing movement amid collapsing support for their own parties, the opposition leader, Angus Taylor, and Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, both signalled support for <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/one-nation">One Nation</a>’s bill to bar the return of foreign fighters ahead of its introduction to the Senate on Wednesday.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/aug/12/coalition-to-back-one-nation-policy-barring-overseas-australians-with-terrorist-links-from-returning-home">Continue reading...</a>