One Nation’s Trailer for ‘A Super Progressive Movie’ Blocked From Parliament Theatre

A debut screening of a trailer for One Nation’s upcoming animated film “A Super Progressive Movie” trailer has been ditched by Parliament House on the grounds it could be offensive.

The trailer for the animated feature-length film, which is set to be released on Australia Day 2026, had been booked to be shown to a select group at the Parliament House theatre since Oct. 16.

Party leader Pauline Hanson said people had travelled to Canberra from all over Australia to attend the event.

“It was only on the day we were going to screen it that Parliament House cancelled the event,” Senator Hanson said in a statement.

“I strongly suspect they left it until the last minute to maximise our inconvenience.

“‘A Super Progressive Movie’ has been cancelled by a super-progressive Parliament House which—shockingly—doesn’t understand one of the most basic principles of democracy.”

Hanson acknowledged the movie may offend some people.

“Offending people is an inevitable consequence of free speech, a fundamental principle of Australian democracy,” she said.

“No one has a right to be unoffended, contrary to what the ‘super progressive left’ believes.”

Hanson said Parliament should be the seat of Australian democracy and a forum for fearless speech and debates of national importance.

“It doesn’t exist to protect people from being offended,” she said.

“It’s an insult to Australians to even suggest they need to be protected from a movie trailer.

“This sort of censorship, based on the fear of the free speech principles Parliament House obviously doesn’t understand, only promotes the material being censored.”

Hanson said the show would still go on however, with the debut trailer screening to be held at an alternative venue.

“We won’t allow Parliament’s fear of free speech to prevent us from exercising it,” she said.

The Epoch Times contacted Parliament House for comment.

The movie draws on the highly popular Please Explain animated series on the One Nation website.

The cartoon series so far has more than 100 episodes spread over the past four years, each costing around $11,000 to create.

Subject matter for the 90-minute movie is still under wraps, but current cartoon episodes have covered a range of topics, including mass migration, renewables, and progressive causes.

The development of the movie has meant episodes of the Please Explain series—which has garnered 50 million views so far—have been temporarily halted.

Hanson said she hopes to screen the movie in cinemas and on Netflix.