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The latest round of polling shows One Nation’s meteoric rise is holding steady. There’s little change from last week’s polls, apart from a two per cent drop in Labor’s primary vote, to 28.5 per cent, which is approaching record-low support for Labor in its entire history.
Yet the party would still at this point win an election comfortably. That’s because the traditional opposition, the coalition, are scraping 22 per cent (albeit a slight rise of two per cent). But the big news of the polls is that One Nation are now effectively the opposition. Depending on the poll, their primary vote is now just a few per cent behind or drawing even with the government’s.
Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party has surged in the latest polling, just “two points” behind Labor.
“One nation, despised by much of the media, led by a woman they’d mocked for decades, is now almost as popular in the polls as the giant Labor Party of Anthony Albanese,” Mr Bolt said.
“How rotten does this government seem to most voters. How p’d off voters must be with it that Labor’s support in this poll is barely ahead of One Nation?”
And how scared are Labor’s camp followers in the legacy media when they start running garbage like this?
When asked about One Nation’s recent surge in popularity, Jasper, 16, says it makes them feel “terrified”.
Gosh, which of their own staff did the ABC ask to wheel in their they/them fashion accessory child for this ‘investigation’?
As Michael Reagan wrote, “Think of the children” is almost always an emotional and irrational appeal made in desperation by those who don’t have a reasonable or legitimate argument. This describes the ABC to a T.
Not once in this pathetic pearl-clutching Jeremiad does the ABC quote a single hard fact. Instead, we get a barrage of ‘I Just Reckons’ from a hand-picked group of ABC apparatchiks.
“I do know young people that are voting for One Nation,” Amaia says.
And Pauline Kael didn’t know anyone who voted for Nixon – yet, he won in one of the biggest landslides in US history.
Jack, 16, says[…] “I have some mates that think strongly about One Nation – they support it – and some don’t, especially with the immigration in the country.”
Whether or not they align with the party’s values, young people, such as Darcy, 17, know what One Nation stands for.
“The clearer and the more simple your messaging is, the better it is,” he says.
“The things that she [Pauline Hanson] says about Muslims and that, I don’t necessarily support,” says Ewan, 15.
“But I do think it’s a bad idea to keep bringing too many people into our country.”
Young people, including Ewan, want topics such as migration tabled.
And One Nation are the only party prepared to do so. Consequently, while One Nation’s vote remains lowest among the youngest voters, still burdened by up to 15 years of non-stop leftist indoctrination laughably called ‘education’, in rural/regional seats, One Nation polls as high as 21 per cent among the youngest demographic. Even in inner metro areas, the Greens’ heartland, One Nation draws up to 13 per cent of the 18–34 year old vote.
One Nation can also truthfully claim the crown of ‘party of the worker’.
One Nation has emerged as the leading party in the country for working-class people, surpassing both Labor and the coalition.
The latest Sky News Pulse, conducted by YouGov between February 3–10 showed the minor party secured 34 per cent of the working-class vote, compared to 27 per cent for Labor and 14 per cent for the coalition.
Among all voters, 28 per cent supported One Nation, above the coalition at 19 per cent primary vote, but slightly behind Labor on 30 per cent.
The Greens captured 12 per cent of the vote, the independents five per cent and other minor parties six per cent.
The other big news of the latest polls is that the Nationals, the Liberals’ coalition partners, may be headed for oblivion first.
The more interesting question would be if there would be any Nationals MPs left in the lower house – with their polling falling from 3.8 per cent in 2025 to just one per cent.
Still, there’s a long road ahead to demolish Labor’s 94-seat ‘Red Wall’. But that wall is shakier than it might appear.
This second-term Labor government is, for now, vulnerable.
It has lost significant primary vote since the post-election honeymoon, and Mr Albanese’s performance, according to voters, has been heading steadily down.
The Bondi terror attack, and his unforgivable response to it, has perhaps fatally damaged Albanese’s personal reputation – witness the chorus of boos and jeers at the Australian Open. More importantly, on kitchen table issues, if interest rates continue to rise, as seems certain, voters will more and more blame the government.
