Making a Mountain Out of Bugger-All

Another week, another round of polls – and the legacy media getting all cock-a-whoop, thinking their relentless attacks on One Nation are paying off. Except, as usual, the legacy media are spinning a whole mountain of nothing out of not much at all.

Here’s how the Age, Woketoria’s lefty bible, chose to report it:

Have we reached peak Pauline?

One Nation’s primary vote has dipped to its lowest level since January (when it was 18 per cent) in the latest Resolve Political Monitor, while Pauline Hanson’s net likeability has also fallen from its peak in the first survey of the year.

Hanson and her party – boosted by the recruitment of former Nationals’ leader Barnaby Joyce, a strong performance in the South Australian election, and frontrunner status in the looming byelection in Sussan Ley’s old seat of Farrer – have been on the march since September 2025, when the party recorded its first double-digit primary vote in this survey.

There’s only problem with this narrative: it’s squeezing the facts until the pips scream in agony.

One Nation’s primary vote remains well above January’s 18 per cent, at – depending which poll you look at – 22 or 24 per cent. And the movements are smaller than the accepted margin of error in polling.

So, what we’re looking at is just poll noise.

Another way of looking at the numbers is that, despite sustained legacy media attacks and a particularly disastrous decision by One Nation, the party’s polling has barely been affected.

After all, in the past fortnight, the legacy media have ramped up the hysteria way past 11, after it emerged that a strategist hired by the party had a conviction for marital rape, which would have practically been a qualification when it comes to the Greens or the major parties. But hypocrisy is what the establishment parties do best (remember that Julia Gillard’s ‘misogyny’ speech was her defence of the fraudster and homosexual harasser she had appointed as Parliamentary Speaker), so naturally they went on the attack without a blush of shame.

Yet, for all that, One Nation’s polling has barely dipped by more than one or two per cent, well within the margin of error. At the same time, even leftist politicians are admitting that Pauline Hanson can’t catch a simple plane flight without getting, and I quote, “treated like a rock star by all on board, including the pilot”.

But the legacy media live in hope that the Bad Red Lady will just go away.

Some of that return is likely to be a flight back to the certainty that the two major political parties represent in an uncertain time.

At a time when petrol and diesel prices are reaching record highs, food prices are rising, more interest rate rises are on the way, and US President Donald Trump uses social media to threaten to erase an entire civilisation, it’s hardly surprising that the status quo offering of the two major parties is more attractive.

Are they, though? A deeper dive into the most recent polls shows that the government is not looking at all attractive to voters.

Amid the ongoing fuel crisis, fears of a global recession and immigration policy clashes, support for the Albanese government and coalition remained static at 31 per cent and 21 per cent respectively.

But the poll also specifically asked voters what they thought of the government’s ‘plan’ to ‘fix the budget’: TL;DR, they hate it.

The Newspoll, conducted between Monday and Thursday last week, included a question asking 1235 voters whether they endorsed 10 options Jim Chalmers may pursue to increase revenue streams in the budget. None of the options attracted an absolute majority, despite only one in six voters rejecting all suggestions.

Because Zippy is playing true to the socialist playbook: tax, tax, tax.

The results show younger voters aged 18–34, who are often cited by the treasurer in his push for intergenerational equity, are more resistant to most revenue-raising options than other age groups. One Nation voters are the most likely to find all of the revenue proposals unacceptable, with 26 per cent rejecting all options.

What Australians really want is for the government to stop flushing our taxes down the socialist shitter.

Ahead of Mr Albanese and the treasurer convening rolling ­meetings of the expenditure review committee of cabinet from next week, the research showed that 76 per cent of Australians believe the government should prioritise reducing debt and moderating spending.

Only 24 per cent support the federal government increasing spending.
The push for the government to curtail spending in the budget, which is supported across all demographics including gender, age and location, comes after economists warned that record government spending was fuelling higher inflation.

And that in turns pushes the Reserve Bank to increase interest rates, with millions of homeowners already struggling to pay their mortgages. Without the government’s insane addiction to spending, inflation would plummet overnight.

Instead, Labor’s socialist numb-nuts are baked into tax-and-spend mentality.

Australians can see what’s coming.

After successive rate hikes this year and warnings about ­global recession fuelled by the ­fallout of the Iran war, the poll showed a record 74 per cent of Australians believe economic conditions will get worse over the next three months, which is up from 47 per cent in February and 34 per cent in September last year.

Across the next 12 months, 64 per cent of Australians believe economic conditions will slide. Only 35 per cent of respondents believe conditions will improve over three years.

The biggest tragedy of all this is that the vast majority of Australians didn’t even vote for it. Less than a third of Australians actually voted Labor. Yet, thanks to the two-party con-job, that somehow translated to a massive majority.

No wonder voters are fed up with it all.