Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has launched a scorching broadside at One Nation after it raised almost $2 million in just over a day in a crowd-funding campaign aimed directly at him

Dubbed “Fire the liar”, the campaign began on social media on Wednesday morning and had raised nearly $1.8 million just over 24 hours later.

On Thursday, Albanese contrasted it with One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s links to Gina Rinehart – including her acceptance in April of a $2.1 million light plane donated by one of the mining magnate’s companies.

“This is someone who got a plane worth more than that given to her by Australia’s richest person,” Albanese said.

“That pales into insignificance compared with the size of a single donation that was given.”

Albanese also suggested the fundraiser was really about grabbing headlines, and questioned the legitimacy of One Nation’s claimed thousands of donations.

“Did she, did she though? What evidence is there?” he said.

“It’s an example of slogans being put forward, not substance.”

He said Hanson was focused more on headlines than outcomes.

“People can say all of these things, they get a run in the media,” he said.

Albanese also defended his government’s policy agenda.

“Pauline Hanson and One Nation have voted against all of the improvements that have been made on living standards,” he said.

“They have described things like free TAFE as being waste. They have opposed measures such as same job, same pay.

“You need to govern a country in a way that looks after the full range of policy suites, with solutions, not just identifying problems, but importantly coming up with solutions,” he said.

Earlier, Hanson’s chief of staff, James Ashby, defended the legitimacy of the donations, which he said had come from 28,000 people.

“The money that has been raised by everyday mum and dad Aussies out there who have just had a gutful of this Prime Minister,” he said.

One Nation is surging in polling, recently pulling ahead of Labor to become the country’s most popular party. The Coalition has sunk to a distant third with voters.

This week, Hanson accused Albanese of lying about his tax ambitions, so-called “ISIS brides’, immigration and his infamous stage “fall” during the last federal election campaign.

“Albo and his MPs lie and cheat Aussies out of home ownership, a decent standard of living and a comfortable retirement. One Nation has proven we can win lower house seats – so it’s time to target Labor-held seats,” she wrote in a post to social media.

One Nation’s campaign was a retaliation to an earlier Labor fundraiser that asked donors to chip in $27 to fund its fight against Hanson. It has reached tens of thousands of social media users since launching on June 1.

“If everyone seeing this contributed $27, we’d have the resources to prevent One Nation from turning polling momentum into seats,” it said.

Hanson has said she found Labor’s campaign “absolutely disgusting”.

“I can tell you there are [28] million Australians in this country, poor Australians, and we have a Prime Minister on over $600,000 a year,” she said.

“He has how many properties, and he is asking the average Australian to donate to his party?”

Libs have ‘no plan’ to carve out seats with One Nation

Elsewhere, amid growing alarm within the Coalition about the rise of One Nation, Opposition Leader Angus Taylor rejected a deal to avoid running competing candidates in some seats.

“No, there’s no plan to carve up seats. We won’t be doing that,” he told ABC News Breakfast on Thursday.

“What we will be doing is focusing on a Labor government that’s taking this country in the wrong direction with higher taxes, with less houses, with immigration that has not been in line with our housing supply, and with an energy system that is broken.”

The Australian reported earlier that Liberal frontbencher Tony Pasin has urged his party to discuss working with One Nation to avoid competing against each other.

Opposition defence spokesman James Paterson also rebuffed Pasin’s proposal.

“I am not interested in dividing the spoils with another political party two years out from the election, and frankly, hitching our wagon to their brand with all the risks that that entails between now and then,” he told ABC radio.

“Who knows what policies One Nation is going to come out with between now and then? Who knows what candidates they’re going to endorse?”

Paterson said the Liberal Party should first earn back the trust and support of its own traditional voters before contemplating any deals with another party.

Taylor has previously left the door open to preferencing One Nation, although his party remains split on that option.

-with AAP