One Nation Claims Labor Behind Cyberattack on Fundraiser as Donations Pass $3 Million

One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson has accused the Australian Labor Party of a cyberattack that temporarily disrupted her party’s fundraising website, as donations pass $3 million in just over two days.

The “Fire the Liar” fundraiser was launched in response to a Labor campaign urging supporters to donate $27 to counter the rise of the conservative-leaning One Nation.

The minor party has steadily climbed in opinion polls and recently overtook Labor on primary vote support.

As of June 12, One Nation’s fundraiser showed more than 51,000 donors had contributed more than $3 million, nearing the party’s increased target of $3.3 million.

Hanson claimed the website had been targeted by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, a type of cyberattack in which a website is flooded with traffic from a large number of devices, overwhelming its servers and making the site slow and temporarily unavailable to users.

“It crashed because of a deliberate DDoS attack by fearful Labor goons,” she said in a social media post.

Hanson reassured supporters that the alleged attack was targeting access to the website, not donor data.

“No personal information, payment details or supporter records were accessed or compromised,” she said.

“Our technical team worked quickly to kill the attack and restored the site to its booming success so that we can get rid of Anthony Albanese and his lying Labor government.”

Addressing reporters in Sydney on June 11, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had earlier said it wouldn’t be “battlers” donating to Hanson’s campaign, because “they vote against battlers each and every time.”

“So, we’ll continue to be concentrating on good policy and we won’t be distracted from making a difference each and every day that we’re in government,” he said.

The Epoch Times contacted the Labor Party for comment on Hanson’s website claims.

Former Labor Advisor Says Fundraiser Significant

Former Labor adviser Michael Keating wrote in a blog post that the scale and speed of the fundraising effort was notable.

“Whether you support One Nation or not, the scale of the fundraising effort is extraordinary,” he said.

“It may rank among the most successful grassroots political fundraising campaigns in modern Australian history.”

Keating said the campaign’s rapid growth was unusual in Australian politics, which has traditionally relied on major donors, fundraising events, and public funding linked to election results.

“What makes the One Nation campaign unusual is its apparent reliance on a large volume of comparatively small donations,” he said.

“Can a minor party reshape Australian politics through small-dollar donations alone?”

Keating said similar small donation models had been utilised by U.S. politicians Bernie Sanders, Barack Obama, and President Donald Trump.

“With One Nation polling strongly in a number of regions and Labor publicly responding to the party’s growing influence, the fundraising effort has become more than just a source of campaign cash—it has become a political story in its own right,” he said.