Progressives have lost it over an upcoming movie titled A Super Progressive Movie, set to be released in January 2026. The film, produced by Australian right-wing senator and One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson, is a satire that tells the story of four self-described progressives living in a sheltered bubble in Melbourne (‘the Naarm Bubble’) who suddenly find themselves catapulted into a radically different Australia—where Hanson is prime minister.
‘It’s a hero’s journey, where these crazy lefties must venture into the real world to reclaim their ideology’s most powerful weapon: the Victimhood,’ creator, director and co-founder of Stepmates Studios Sebastian Peart told Sky News. ‘We wanted to take characters that are utterly ridiculous and put them through a serious philosophical and ideological arc. It’s silly, but it has something to say. We’re really proud of it,’ he added.
From the one-and-a-half-minute trailer, viewers are introduced to a few of the last remaining straight white males of Australia in jail, punished by woke authorities for ‘toxic positivity’, alongside a series of accurate gags about the woke madness raging in Australia, many parts of Western Europe and, to some extent, still in the United States. The movie is based on Hanson’s animated series Please Explain, released almost weekly over the past four years, which has also triggered outrage from the left.
Watch the trailer below:
The trailer, published on 25 November, was scheduled for screening in Parliament House in Canberra, but was cancelled at the last minute after parliamentary officials claimed the content ‘might offend someone’, invoking the house’s event-booking policy prohibiting events likely to cause offence to any part of the Australian community.
‘The film takes aim at woke politics, government waste, and the growing disconnect between Canberra elites and everyday Australians. And that’s exactly why Parliament shut it down. They weren’t protecting staff—they were protecting themselves from criticism,’ One Nation said in a statement after the cancellation.
That was enough for the news to spread globally—and for progressives around the world to express outrage over the obviously satirical movie. UK-based LGBTQ+ outlet PinkNews wrote—of course, in an article without a named author—that the film ‘features a cavalcade of spectacularly unfunny homophobic, transphobic, and racist “jokes”, all wrapped in poor quality animation and terrible dialogue.’ The outlet framed the cancelled screening as the Parliament House theatre being ‘spared the horror’. The article further accused the movie of ‘spreading deeply hateful conspiracy theories, particularly towards LGBTQ+ people’.
‘The trailer, published on 25 November, was scheduled for screening in Parliament House in Canberra, but was cancelled at the last minute’
Progressive echo chambers like Reddit are also blowing up, with users flooding comment threads to throw shade at both the creators and the film itself. ‘I understand freedom of expression but this far right, racist, homophobic sh*t is purely propaganda right?’ one user wrote.
Senator Pauline Hanson is already a deeply controversial figure in leftist circles. She was recently suspended for seven sitting days after entering the Senate chamber wearing a burqa as a political protest—a repeat of a stunt she first performed in 2017—aimed at highlighting her push for a nationwide ban on full-face coverings.
A Super Progressive Movie will be streamed online and shown in selected Australian cinemas on 26 January 2026.
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