Opposition leader Angus Taylor has delivered his most comprehensive attack so far on One Nation, describing it as a “column of smoke” that would, in government, send the country broke.

If people wanted to vote for a party that was clear on what it stood for “One Nation isn’t it”.

Taylor said the party was “long on rhetoric but short on substance”. “One Nation’s offering is a random grab bag of poorly defined, contradictory, and constantly changing positions that leave no clear sense of who they are or what they stand for.

"Their longest-serving MP [a reference to Malcolm Roberts, although Pauline Hanson is actually the longest-serving] thinks the United States is the ‘world’s greatest terrorist organisation’, and their newest MP [David Farley] is already voting with the Greens and Teals.”

Taylor made his attack in an address to the Sydney Institute late Thursday. He has been criticised for tip-toeing around One Nation, in........

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