‘Global parasites since 1913’: One Nation senator calls US ‘world’s greatest terrorist organisation’

Roberts described the US as “globalist parasites since 1913” in an interview with Israeli podcaster Efrat Fenigson in September 2024, when Joe Biden was still president, but his remarks have resurfaced just as One Nation leader Hanson prepares to front the National Press Club in Canberra for the first time on Wednesday.

The address to the Press Club – more than 30 years after Hanson was first elected – is seen within the party as a test of her ability to face tough questions as One Nation surges in all the polls to become a mainstream political force.

Its primary vote has reached 29 percentage points in the latest Resolve Political Monitor, ahead of Labor on 28 points and the Coalition on 20 points.

At the same time, Hanson now leads as preferred prime minister too, with 33 per cent of voters nominating her, 29 per cent nominating Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, and just 16 per cent of voters naming Angus Taylor as their preferred PM.

In the podcast interview, Roberts tells Fenigson – who bills herself as an independent journalist, podcaster, public speaker and marketing expert whose “path to sovereignty unfolded with the outbreak of COVID” – that he had lived in the US for five years, married an American woman and had two children who were dual Australian-American citizens.

The senator, who entered parliament as a One Nation MP in 2016, would be in the box seat to hold a senior ministerial or shadow ministerial portfolio such as Defence or Foreign Affairs if the party can translate its surge in support into more seats and a formal conservative coalition role at the next election, due in 2028.

“That country that I had so much respect for is just the world’s greatest terrorist organisation now. American people are fantastic; they are lovely people. So caring, so frank, so easy to engage, so wonderful. But their government has been hijacked by these globalist parasites since 1913 and probably before, and it’s now controlling the world’s largest military force ever,” he said.

“They don’t even need a fraction of what they’ve got. They can walk into any country on Earth. They can bring Australia along with us just like little patsies following. Britain’s going in after them.”

Roberts then said he agreed with former US Republican congressman Ron Paul that “every major war since 1913 is directly attributable to the Federal Reserve Bank”.

The remarks are embarrassing for Hanson, who used her appearance at a conference at US President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort last November to urge Australia to lift defence spending to at least 5 per cent of gros