Barnaby is (literally) a beetroot, Peter Dutton is Voldemort and Scott Morrison is a try-hard beach bum: See Pauline Hanson's bizarre new cartoon series mocking politicians
- One Nation launched the cartoon series on Friday and it quickly went viral
- Pauline Hanson is drawn as a young schoolteacher controlling clueless men
- Harshest depictions were of Peter Dutton, Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce
Pauline Hanson has launched a bizarre cartoon series in which she appears as a glamorous school teacher trying to control the clueless leading men of Australian politics.
Episode one of Pauline Hanson's Please Explain takes special aim at Defence minister Peter Dutton, imagining him as Lord Voldemort; Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, who has a beetroot for a head, and the Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
Mr Morrison appears as a disheveled try-hard, beach bum who is late to class.
'Aloha douchebags, it's me ScoMo!' Morrison says, yanking open the classroom door while the other classmates are seated.
The PM's annoying character looks like he's come straight from a Hawaiian holiday and can't stop saying 'ScoMo!'
Defence minister Peter Dutton gets possibly the harshest treatment in Pauline Hanson's viral political cartoon - as Lord Voldemort
The clip, which was going viral by Friday afternoon, was posted on social media platforms and quickly had nearly 6,000 engagements.
'Damn, l demand episode two. I never laughed so hard,' wrote Jessica Collins.
'Love this. Especially the Scott Morrison 'guy'! Yip...a true version of him,' Maureen Snyman said.
The web-series was launched with the message that it 'aims to entertain and answer some of the most common questions I've been asked over the years while bringing a whole new audience up to date with the issues of the day.'
The strange but funny clip depicts Opposition leader Anthony Albanese as clueless that his own party members are about to stab him, Greens leader Adam Bandt as an unpopular nerd and Craig Kelly as a phone-addicted troublemaker.
Pauline Hanson is a sassy young schoolteacher in the cartoon her team created. The Prime Minister Scott Morrison comes across as a try-hard who can't stop saying 'ScoMo!'
The depiction of National leader Barnaby Joyce was predictable but still funny
Also featured are Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, Bob Katter and Matt Canavan.
The ghoulish Dutton character asks where Christian Porter is but he doesn't appear as Hanson says he is 'suspended'.
The only non-politician character is Victorian construction union boss John Setka, who looks like a jacked-up muscleman.
In the clip, schoolteacher Hanson tells her misbehaving class 'over the next few weeks I'm going to teach you about Australian politics, am I understood.'
The class dutifully says 'Yes Miss Senator Hanson.'
'Now listen closely, because at the end of this term there will be... an election,' she says - to a chorus of disapproval.
Notably there is no room for any senior female politicians in Ms Hanson's class aside from the knife-wielding Tanya Plibersek - no Penny Wong, no Michaela Cash, no Marise Payne or Karen Andrews.
The ALP's only appearance in the cartoon is not flattering - with Anthony Albanese facing a knifing from former leader Bill Shorten and shadow minister for women, Tanya Plibersek
Hanson is treated more kindly by animators, as a sassy, younger, almost pin-up version of herself, with sparkling green eyes and red lipstick.
The cartoon looks like a definite play for the youth vote, not just because of the animations.
The clip ends with a bright orange page emblazoned with Pauline Hanson's One Nation, with what sounds like a dancefloor banger kicking off.
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