by KEVIN DONNELLY – SINCE first being established in 1997 by Pauline Hanson, One Nation has been described as a fringe Party with little, if any, political clout.
This is no longer the case. According to a January 2026 Newspoll commissioned by The Australian newspaper, One Nation is ahead of the Liberal Party with a vote of 22 per cent compared to 21 per cent.
- Voters are especially fed up with the Liberal Party for no longer championing conservative values.
- The Liberal Party has failed.
- Millions of Australians are flocking to One Nation.
Compare the latest polling with the 6.4 per cent One Nation achieved at the 2025 Federal Election and it’s obvious Australian politics is undergoing significant and dramatic change.
Such is the surging popularity of One Nation, Australia’s leading election analyst Antony Green concludes: “If come the next election One Nation polls 25 per cent, it will be sweeping up seats all across rural and regional Australia. And most of those seats are held by the National and Liberal Parties”.
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The March 21 South Australian election result proves how prescient Antony Green was.
Based on the provisional results two days after the election, won by the ALP, One Nation achieved 22.1 per cent of the primary vote compared to the Liberal party’s 19 per cent.
The surge in voter support for One Nation is not surprising or unexpected.
The Australian’s Paul Kelly is wrong to disparage the Party or to imply its supporters are a threat to conservative politics.
Writing in The Age newspaper on February 5, 2026, Margot Saville is also wrong. She compared One Nation and the Nationals to Trotsky and Stalin – and characterised One Nation supporters as misguided, hypocritical and ignorant.
Those lampooning One Nation supporters would do well to remember what happened to Hilary Clinton after she labelled Trump supporters as a “basket of deplorables”.
Donald Trump went on to win the 2016 Presidential election with many commentators describing Clinton’s comment as a significant reason the Democrats lost.
As to why millions of Australians are flocking to One Nation look no further than:
- the parlous state of the economy and increasing financial hardship,
- the destructive impact of unrestricted immigration,
- the lack of national stability and social cohesion caused by multiculturalism,
- the mindless adherence to climate change alarmism, and
- radical gender and sexuality ideology telling children boys can be girls and girls can be boys.
Australian voters are increasingly disillusioned and frustrated with the major Parties and their inability and unwillingness to reflect mainstream values and beliefs and to do what is best for the nation.
Instead of reflecting their needs and aspirations, voters believe the major political Parties are more concerned with Woke ideology championed by cultural-Left academics, the media and privileged inner-city elites.
Voters are especially fed up with the Liberal Party for no longer championing conservative values in its misguided attempt to appeal to inner-city electorates held by the Teals.
On issues such as climate change, multiculturalism, Aboriginal reconciliation and national cohesion and pride, with a few exceptions, those currently controlling the Liberal Party has failed.PC
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