Last year, Paul Williams, Associate Professor of Politics and Journalism at Griffith University and full-time One Nation critic — confidently declared that One Nation was finished. According to him, there was next to no chance that Senator Malcolm Roberts would be re-elected.

Oops.

Senator Roberts wasn’t just re-elected. He was re-elected for a third time, securing a full Senate quota outright, and then some. Before another half of a conservative vote quota was even distributed, it was already game over for Mr. Williams’ prediction.

But it wasn’t just Queensland where One Nation proved the so-called expert class wrong.

At the 2022 federal election, Pauline Hanson comfortably retained her Queensland Senate seat with a result remarkably similar to what Senator Roberts achieved. And nationwide, One Nation doubled our Senate team, welcoming Warwick Stacey from New South Wales and Tyron Whitten from Western Australia.

That’s a party growing and growing fast.

So how did Paul Williams get it so wrong? Simple. He had no evidence, no methodology, and no credibility, just an agenda.

He plucked a prediction from thin air. He flapped his gums before thinking. You see, thinking before talking is a luxury, not a prerequisite, in the extremist left. And the country’s academic achievement is suffering.

Of course, when his forecast flopped, the same media outlets didn’t bother circling back to ask, “Hey Paul, what went wrong?” This amateur is never held to account.

They just moved on to the next anti-One Nation narrative, still quoting him like he’s some kind of oracle. Look, at the least the Delphi oracle was smart enough to talk in riddles that could be taken both ways. Williams just blurts out nonsense and expects everyone to lap it up.

It’s a pattern. Because these academics, cut from the same cloth, are the ones who also claim the planet is boiling, cooling, and heating; sea levels are rising; the Barrier Reef is dead; and that we all have 100 months to live, give or take.

They also tell us science is about consensus and that debate is dangerous.

No wonder Australians are tuning them out in droves.

The media still gives Paul Williams airtime and column inches, despite him being consistently wrong. He’s become the ABC and Courier Mail’s go-to when they need a tidy little quote about how One Nation is supposedly in decline.

But here’s the truth: every time these people write us off, they’re just reminding Australians why our party is needed more than ever.

We speak for the people they ignore.

We talk about the things they want silenced.

And we’re winning votes while their predictions keep going in the bin.

So next time a TV panel or newspaper editor trots out Paul Williams for another one of his forecasts, someone might want to ask, “What happened to all the last ones?”

Because this bloke isn’t analysing. He’s campaigning. And badly.

If you are considering diving into considerable HECS debt to take one of these blokes' classes, our advice is don't.