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The left have been losing their heads since Gina Rinehart gifted Pauline Hanson a plane to campaign in remote seats. Without a blush of irony, the same ABC, that fawns over a gaggle of Harbour-Mansion-set airheads bankrolled by a useless rich-kid and his inherited billions, duly shrieked and clutched their pearls. In the end, all they achieved was the same result they have every time they’ve tried to attack One Nation: more Australians swing behind the underdog upstart.
Even the ABC’s Patricia Karvelas, who wept and wailed about ‘legitimising’ One Nation with their thumping victory in the formerly blue-ribbon coalition seat of Farrer, has to grudgingly admit what the polls are clearly saying.
The minor party [is] not only loved, but loved statistically very hard.
You can practically hear the gritted teeth behind the ‘minor party’ sneer. In fact, One Nation is very much the real opposition party, now. It’s the coalition who are being humiliatingly consigned to minor party status.
A huge new ANU study out today reports on political and policy attitudes collected in the March 2026 ANUpoll, a survey of 3,662 adult Australians conducted between March 11 and March 26, 2026.
It asks specifically about One Nation for the first time, and the results show that rather than being a flash in the pan, the One Nation freight train may be a lasting phenomenon […]
One Nation has the highest proportion of respondents expressing strong approval, with 11.7 per cent assigning a rating of 10.
That’s not some One Nation press release. That’s straight from the ANU poll. The horror in elite circles is palpable. Pauline Hanson’s ‘freight train’ isn’t slowing down: it’s accelerating.
The Australian National University surveyed 3,662 adults. For the first time, they drilled down specifically on One Nation. The findings should terrify the political class. This isn’t a protest vote driven by temporary cost-of-living pain. It’s “a potentially more durable and structurally grounded configuration”: low hope, high financial stress, deep scepticism of government, indifference to green hysteria and a full-throated populist rejection of the status quo.
The punchline is even funnier:
The Greens top the poll as the most hated party, with 25.6 per cent of respondents reporting a strong dislike of the party.
No doubt a consoling balm to the ABC luvvies is the stark divide by education. Those without year 12 or a degree rate One Nation far higher. Bringing to mind Kerry Packer’s barb about ‘educated fuckwits’, those who’ve blown a lazy 100g on three years of far-left indoctrination recoil in disgust.
Sound familiar? It’s Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” speech all over again: coastal, credentialed elites sneering at the unwashed masses who dare reject their grand vision. Karvelas and her ABC colleagues can barely conceal their contempt. One Nation voters aren’t just wrong: in their eyes, they’re illegitimate.
Women back the party less than men, but the biggest difference is by education… Those with a degree have a much less favourable view towards One Nation.
Of course they do. The inner-city, university-educated set, the same crowd that cheered mass immigration, net zero fantasies and every progressive cultural experiment, are watching their consensus crumble. Regional Australia, outer suburbs, tradespeople and the financially squeezed have had enough. They’re not buying the lectures any more.
The ANU report confirms what sensible people have known for years. Financial stress is real, but it’s fused with something deeper: a loss of faith in government’s ability to deliver, a rejection of endless environmental scaremongering and a demand for borders that actually mean something. One Nation’s strongest markers are strict border control and scepticism of green orthodoxy.
This is existential for the coalition in the regions. Sussan Ley’s old seat of Farrer was the crucial litmus test. One Nation is not just competitive: it’s winning hearts and minds where it counts. The majors spent decades ignoring public opinion on immigration, promising it would deliver ‘social cohesion’ while presiding over record levels of intake never seen in our history. The result? Shattered trust, parallel societies and the very fragmentation they claimed to prevent.
The elites’ panic is understandable. Their model is breaking. GDP Ponzi scam via population growth masked declining living standards. Per capita income stagnated. Housing became a nightmare. Social cohesion, the very thing they weaponised against critics, lies in ruins. And now the punters are rewarding the one party that called it early and often.
Pauline Hanson’s “sexy new plane” from Gina Rinehart makes for good clickbait. The real story is the ANU data: One Nation’s support is structurally grounded, intense and growing. It reflects a Australia that no longer recognises itself after decades of elite-driven transformation.
The political realignment is here. The commentariat can keep clutching pearls about ‘populism’ and education levels. Voters in the regions and outer suburbs, burdened with less education and more common sense, are voting with their feet and their ballots. They’re not deplorables: they’re Australians who want their country back.
The freight train is coming. And the establishment is finally realising they’re tied to the tracks.
