While we were all studying the astounding victories of Reform and the Greens in the UK, Australia was having its own moment, leaving the plantation and voting in its first One Nation member to the federal House of Representatives. One Nation, under the leadership of its mercurial leader, Pauline Hanson, these days polls highly, often in second place. They're fast displacing the right-of-centre Liberal Party.
Pauline Hanson is an interesting figure. Personally, I cannot stand her voice, so I rarely listen to her. But she has stuck at it, never giving up. Finally, off the back of her own decades-long efforts, the party she created is getting traction. They're now a real force. They could become the government of Australia.
https://newsreel.com.au/article/government/one-nation-surge-is-now-being-taken-seriously/
One Nation’s surge can no longer be seen as a blip or an aberration.
As the results in the Farrer byelection showed, the right-wing populist party – which has been hovering on the fringes of Australian politics for 30 years – is now a serious electoral force.
While the byelection was considered likely to be a close contest between One Nation’s David Farley and independent Michelle Milthorpe, in the end voters delivered an easy win to Farley. His is the first One Nation victory in a federal House of Representatives seat.
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