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After the tragic Helen Haines attack, how should we protect MPs?

Independent MP Helen Haines lost both legs after she was rammed by a car outside her Wangaratta electorate office on 19 October.

A Perth man has been charged with threatening to kill Pauline Hanson, and 20 court cases are under way over threats to Anthony Albanese.

The AFP already spends $523 million a year guarding politicians and sensitive sites, and every extra layer of security would cost taxpayers more.

So we're asking: should it be police at electorate offices, bodyguards for every MP, better locks and cameras, or no extra spending at all?

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Who should be in Victoria's leaders' debate?

Victorians vote on 28 November, and Labor's Ben Carroll and the Liberals' Jess Wilson are fighting to be Premier.

One Nation's Warren Pickering and the Greens' Ellen Sandell lead parties that could decide who forms government if neither major party wins a majority.

So far 71% of voters want all four on stage, 26% want Carroll, Wilson and Pickering, and just 3% want only the two major party leaders.

So we're asking: should the debate be just Carroll and Wilson, add Pickering, or include all four?

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YouGov's latest federal poll of 1,500 voters, taken from 13 to 20 October, has One Nation on 27%, Labor on 24%, the Coalition on 23% and the Greens on 14%.

Compared with YouGov's previous survey, One Nation, Labor and the Greens each dropped a point, the Coalition gained 2 and Community Strong Australia rose 1 to 2%, while independents and others held at 5% each.

Labor's 24% is its lowest in any YouGov poll since the 2025 election.

After preferences, the Coalition and Labor are tied 50 to 50, while Labor leads One Nation 53 to 47.

One Nation and the Coalition together are on 50%, level with Labor, the Greens, independents and others combined.

So we're asking: who will you vote for at the next federal election?

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@birchipboy Hey Noah, it counts it live at the bottom of the site on the home page and that's in just over two weeks 😊

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Roy Morgan's latest projection for Victoria's upper house has the Coalition on 12 seats, Labor on 10, the Greens on 8 and One Nation on 6, with 4 places still to be decided before the 28 November election.
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In August, a Roy Morgan SMS poll had One Nation on 10 Legislative Council seats and the Greens and others on 3 between them.
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One Nation and the Coalition are now on 18 together, down from 21. Labor, the Greens, independents and others are also on 18, up from 12.
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A majority needs 21, so whichever side wins at least 3 of the 4 undecided places would control the chamber.
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The Victorian Socialists are running candidates in 82 lower house electorates, while One Nation is contesting 87.
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So we're asking: how will you vote in Victoria's upper house?
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We asked whether Anthony Albanese should step down over the cost of living crisis, and if so who should take over. 945 people have voted so far, no account needed, and the result is very lopsided.

Only 14% want to keep Albanese. The other 86% chose a replacement, and most of them landed on the same name: Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles on 68%.

Nobody else came close. Tanya Plibersek 7%, Mark Butler 6%, Jim Chalmers 3%, Tony Burke 3%.

Plenty of people will say all of them should go, and we get it, there is real financial strain out there right now. But they did pick someone, and this is who they chose.

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Roy Morgan's projections for both houses of Victoria's Parliament have the Coalition on 11 of the 40 upper house seats and One Nation on 10, which together make 21, the exact number needed for a majority.

One Nation won just one upper house seat in 2022 and is now projected to win 10, putting it ahead of Labor on 9, with the Greens and others on 3 and 7 seats still undecided.

In the lower house Labor is on 40 of 88 seats, 5 short of the 45 it needs to govern, with the Coalition on 31, One Nation on 11 and the Greens on 6.

That puts the right bloc of One Nation and the Coalition on 42 lower house seats, while the left bloc of Labor, the Greens, independents and others combined is on 46, so Labor can only stay in power with the Greens.

The upper house figures come from Roy Morgan's August SMS poll of 2,084 Victorians, and the lower house figures from its seat model of 7,708 Victorians released on 9 October. Victorians vote on 28 November.

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Twenty years in the game and you still can't tell the difference between criticism and defamation. Your post calling James Winders a "cocaine addicted grifting bogan" is false, and nothing the ABC published says otherwise. Remove it by 5pm Monday, or a formal concerns notice under the Defamation Act will follow.

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OpenPoll shows One Nation's James Ashby as Queensland's preferred Premier on 70%, well ahead of the LNP's David Crisafulli, the current Premier, on 25%.

While it's a sample of 529 Queensland members, it shows a sitting Premier trailing a party leader who isn't even in parliament yet.

Labor's Steven Miles, who lost government in 2024, is on just 2%, behind the 3% who are unsure.

This week's poll closes 8pm Sunday. It takes a minute, account needed so it's one person, one vote, and you can watch the count change live as the votes come in.

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This post calls James Winders, the owner of One News Australia, a "cocaine addicted grifting bogan". The ABC article it relies on says no such thing, so it's a false defamatory personal attack on an identifiable person, made in a thread about a poll. It follows repeated false claims by the same account that the poll is funded by Gina Rinehart. If the post is not removed you will hearing from our solicitors. Simple mate. Keep it real and to the facts.

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@kevinbonham @Darrencanplay @Mercfan3Mercfan @aaronsmith @MalachiAUS You have to start somewhere and it's only two weeks old, but as you can see, it's not just one nation voters, it's starting to get traction from other parties in all states.

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Nobody's selling anything, Darren. OpenPoll is free to join, free to vote and free to read. The grifter line is a bit rich from someone who's written two Independent Australia pieces attacking One Nation this year and walked into a strangers comments and not only lied but threw around defamatory comments and claims to be a school teacher? Explains the kids these days.

Independent Australia has only 25,000 followers on Facebook after how many years? One News has 59,000 in four months. You're not judging the polling, you're a One Nation critic with a byline who doesn't like who owns it.

Stick to your day job teaching, mate, although if this is how you speak to people, we feel sorry for your students.

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@lowkfaggotcore @n0otherwaythere @Darrencanplay In case you didn't notice, it's not a media outlets, its a poll and it has 4,000 subscribers in two weeks, how are your 13 followers going?

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Wrong. You haven't even bothere to read it. The post said in its second sentence that it's a sample of 529 Queensland members, Kevin, and the card says "OpenPoll preferred Queensland Premier" with n=529, one vote per verified Queensland member, in its source line. Dishonest would mean hiding who voted, and we put it on the card and in the post. It's a live count of our members, not a claim about the whole state, and we're working towards a balanced sample as the panel grows.

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Grammar and spelling problems? We can help with that. But first, let's clear up your lies. OpenPoll is owned by an Australian company, and a simple ASIC search will confirm that. James is the owner and doesn't have a criminal record, so what's your point? Don't worry, we know: you're terrified a right-wing owned pollster is here to fudge the figures. It isn't, which is why it's a live poll where you can see your vote and everyone else's in real time. Have you voted yet?

Still sore about One News blocking you, it seems. When you complained about it on your own page, not a single soul responded, so it looks like not one of your 6,000+ followers pays any attention to what you're saying anyway mate.

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We didn't, and the map shows it. They're not all One Nation voters: the Liberals, independents and Family First are leading seats this week, and Labor and the Greens are tied for the lead in others. A mix of every party is exactly what we're working towards. OpenPoll is two weeks old, and it will grow across every group from here.

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It's legal because we tell you exactly what it is. Every result is labelled as a count of our members, with the number of voters shown, and we've never claimed it represents the whole population. Fraud means hiding something, and we publish everything. It's also nothing like a Facebook poll: every member verifies their mobile, can only vote once, and only votes in their own electorate.

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Interesting standard from a self-appointed academic who was calling people grifters and bogans an hour ago. Do you use defamatory language with your students too, or just with anyone who disagrees with you? If that's the bar you set as a human, writer and teacher, you've failed it epically. We've never called OpenPoll anything but a live count of our members, with every number published, and Kevin Bonham is welcome to look at all of it. Real academics don't jump into a stranger's replies throwing insults just because they don't like who owns a poll. Do better mate, otherwise your bio needs to change.

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@Darrencanplay @aaronsmith @MalachiAUS That's a false and defamatory claim about the owner, and it's been screenshotted. Stick to the poll, champ.

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Because the members vote to see the result, and hiding it until it looks respectable would be less honest, not more. Every result is labelled as a count of our members with the number of voters shown, and it's never presented as an election forecast. Publishing from week one means anyone can watch the panel grow and check our work as the balanced sample comes in.

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If you had bothered to dive a little bit deeper OpenPoll isn't our main source. We track every major pollster on the One News live tracker, including Newspoll, Resolve, YouGov, Redbridge, Roy Morgan, Essential and Freshwater: https://t.co/vvUbJeP2lj OpenPoll is something of our own, a live count where every number is shown, for more transparency.