Pauline Hanson doesn't like the government's "no jab, no pay" child vaccination scheme because she reckons it's like a "dictatorship". But she quite likes Vladimir Putin who is, by many measures, an actual dictator.

She doesn't like Muslims – wants to ban them all from coming into our country – allegedly because a tiny percentage of them want to kill Australians. Yet Putin – who is ultimately responsible for killing 38 Australians, many more than Islamic State has so far managed – she admires and respects as a strong patriot.

She's always banging on about upholding Australian values, but then heaps praise on a man who tramples democracy, ignores the rule of law, invades neighbouring countries and murders his critics. Are they Aussie values?

Of all the ill-informed, contradictory nonsense that spews forth from hyper-nationalist populists such as Hanson – usually just mindlessly parroting the US tweeter-in-chief – this praise for Putin is perhaps the most troubling.