Senator Andrew Bragg says the opposition needs to come up with serious policy alternatives. Follow today’s news live
Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast
McCormack says One Nation surge fuelled by ‘cranky’ people
Former Nationals leader Michael McCormack says One Nation’s polling is picking up because members of the public are “cranky”, but he doubts that polling will transpire into real votes at an election.
She’s [Hanson’s] very effective at that clickbait publicity … I’m not quite sure what it achieves. One Nation is, by and large, a protest movement, and people are, at the moment, they’re dissatisfied, and so when the pollsters ring up, they’ll always tell a pollster that they’re cranky, that yes, ‘I’ll give One Nation a vote’, but whether that transpires into a vote the next general election, I doubt it.
Continue reading…
Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2026/feb/02/australia-news-live-desi-freeman-porepunkah-shooting-search-nationals-leadership-spill-littleproud-liberals-sussan-ley-angus-taylor-andrew-hastie-ntwnfb
Author : Nick Visser
Publish date : 2026-02-01 22:13:00
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.