One Nation’s Victorian campaign launch opened not with promises to address the cost-of-living crisis, but with an AI-generated video depicting a Sudanese man with a machete, a Middle Eastern man with a bomb strapped to him and an Aboriginal person describing how they are paid on the basis of identity rather than merit.

In August, residents of Sanderson Street in Yarraville in Melbourne used parked cars and wheelie bins to obstruct workers trying to install 15 metre power polls.

Rank-and-file unionists must prepare to defend every condition and raise the conditions up to the best, as well as to fight for a decent pay rise.