South Australia just spoke.
One Nation. From zero lower house seats to four. A 20% swing in one election. They beat the Liberals on primary vote across the entire state.
(One Nation has 1 confirmed lower house seat with up to 4 expected once the count is finalised. Ten seats are still in doubt and won’t be resolved tonight because of the massive pre-poll count still being processed and preference flows that need to be worked through)
The Liberals went from 16 seats to 4. Wiped out of Adelaide. The worst result in their history.
And the ABC’s chief election analyst called it what it is. An earthquake.
Let that land for a sec.
Every commentator said it wouldn’t translate. Every political insider said the polls were just protest. Every expert said One Nation voters wouldn’t show up when it counted.
They showed up.
20.8% primary vote. In a state where they had virtually nothing four years ago. With no sitting MPs, zero government funding and no machine, just candidates who knocked on doors and a message that matched what people were feeling.
The Liberals spent the campaign saying they couldn’t name a single One Nation policy. Tonight they can’t name enough Liberal seats to form an opposition.
This isn’t a protest vote anymore it’s a movement and it just proved itself at a ballot box for the first time since Queensland in 1998.
Victoria votes in November. One Nation is polling 23-26% there. NSW goes in 2027. One Nation is already at 21-23%.
And federally? A DemosAU poll of 8,400 voters this week projects One Nation winning 46-55 seats at a federal election. The Coalition 9-17. The Nationals zero to two.
Tonight was the test. The question was simple. Would people actually vote for it or just talk about it?
South Australia answered.
Now the question changes. It’s not whether One Nation is real anymore. It’s whether anyone can stop it.
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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has issued a stern warning to Premier Peter Malinauskas after her party saw strong support across South Australia, with voters rewarding the party’s push to hold the major parties to account.
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South Australians head to the polls today.
There’s real momentum behind One Nation, and the support on the ground is strong. We back our South Australian team all the way.
Whatever the final count, one thing is clear. One Nation is now the genuine opposition to Labor, right across this country.
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One Nation gains strong polling momentum ahead of the South Australian election, challenging the traditional political order.
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As reported around the country, One Nation is charging ahead in South Australia. Pauline Hanson didn’t go to back to Queensland like the South Australian premier suggested. No she stayed, and refused to abandon the state to Labor. Pauline Hanson took the premier to task about his view that immigrants were only good enough to wipe bums, and told him his comments were disgraceful.
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I love it when someone like Fatima Payman tells me I should leave the country if I don't like the direction Australia is heading.
It comes following One Nation's strong stance against mass migration - particularly from countries where people are incompatible with western society.
Migrants with long-term negative fiscal impacts on western nations include those from:
• Horn of Africa and Sudan
• Morocco
• Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, and Iraq
• Central Africa
• West Africa
The second generation fiscal impact isn't much better according to data initiated by Deutsche Post Foundation.
Australia doesn't conduct these reviews because it would terrify voters on how poorly past governments have vetted recent migrant intakes.
It's time all Australians have a long hard look at what the two major parties have done to the country we love so much. Worse still, if the current policy isn't changed, what it will do over the next few years.
I'm not opposed to immigration, but my priority is with those Australians already here. They COME FIRST.
I have a pretty simple mantra when it comes to migration.
• If you hate our laws - you should be gone.
• If you don't want to work - you should be gone.
• If you don't want to learn english - don't come here.
• If you expect the Australian taxpayer to pay your way through life - don't come here.
It's pretty simple.
As for Fatima Payman - I've put a petition to the parliament seeking they act upon her citizenship to Afghanistan. Fatima has not renounced her dual citizenship to Afghanistan despite their government offering a clear pathway.
She was only ever elected because of Liberal preferences to Labor in Western Australia which is a blight on people like Dean Smith who refused to recommend their preferences to One Nation.
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