Pauline Hanson's chilling warning to Australia after Penny Wong declared the Voice is inevitable: 'This is their agenda'

Pauline Hanson has warned Labor will treat the Voice to Parliament as a 'mandate' if it wins Saturday's election.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong sparked a furore on Wednesday by predicting that the Voice – a separate indigenous body with powers to influence government legislation - will eventually be introduced, despite it being voted down 60 per cent to 30 per cent in Labor's 2023 referendum. 

'We'll look back on it in ten years' time and it'll be a bit like marriage equality,' Senator Wong told the Betoota Talks podcast.

'I always used to say, marriage equality, which took us such a bloody fight to get that done, and I thought, all this fuss... It'll become something, it'll be like, people go "did we even have an argument about that?"

It came after Anthony Albanese, asked whether he still believed in the Voice during Sunday night's leaders' debate, had responded: 'It's gone... I respect the outcome (of the referendum), we live in a democracy.'

Ms Wong later echoed Mr Albanese's words in an apparent backflip, telling SBS, 'the Voice is gone... The prime minister has made that clear, and the Australian people have made their position clear, and we respect the result of the referendum.'

Speaking to Daily Mail Australia on Wednesday from Tasmania, where she is on the campaign trail with her daughter Senate candidate Lee Hanson, Ms Hanson said the Foreign Minister's comments were proof Labor had not given up on the Voice.

'It doesn't surprise me, because I know their agenda,' she said.

'They haven't walked away from it, they have disregarded the referendum and what people voted for.'

Ms Hanson claimed millions of dollars Labor had earmarked in a previous election promise for a Makarrata Commission, focused on deal-making and truth-telling between governments and First Nations, had yet to be re-allocated. 

'This is their agenda - have no doubt about it. 

'I think if they're given a majority government I think they're going to look at it - renewables and a Voice to Parliament - as a mandate. It's not dead and buried.'

Ms Hanson's One Nation party is polling higher than its 2022 election result, with a recent survey putting its primary vote at 10.5 per cent. 

But Labor holds a clear lead over the Coalition, which has reached a preference arrangement with One Nation party in marginal seats.

The arrangement is intended in part to shore up the Coalition against Labor, but also to offset a move by Clive Palmer's Trumpet of Patriots party to put incumbents in last position.

Ms Hanson said the Coalition's campaign performance 'has been very poor, I'm hearing that from the public, they don't see a strong leader in Peter Dutton'. 

'It's a shame people haven't got the confidence in him.'

Mr Dutton had not 'stood his ground' on key issues, such as his policy to stop public servants in Canberra from working from home, Ms Hanson said. 

As for Clive Palmer's party, she was 'not worried about the Trumpet of Patriots' and thought Aussies were 'fed up' with receiving the party's spam texts.

The senator pointed out that Palmer had approached her last year with an offer to join forces but she had refused.

'We're totally different. I wouldn't go anywhere near him (Palmer) with a barge pole.' 

She had been surprised by ads featuring party leader Suellen Wrightson and referring to her as 'evil', given she had crossed paths with Ms Wrightson during that candidate's work as chief of staff for Senator Ralph Babet and found her 'so complementary'. 

'If Suellen thinks she's the next prime minister it's a joke. I think they're a joke.'