Sticking with Pauline Hanson’s comments yesterday, the One Nation leader has confirmed she is considering a move to the House of Representatives at the next election, as new polling shows her party overtaking Labor.
“It’s a consideration by all means. It is in the mix, but I’m not making a decision now, and I’m not going to tell anyone what I’m doing at this moment because I haven’t clearly made up my mind,” Hanson told Sky News last night.
“It will be a discussion that I will have with the team around me, with my other members of parliament, and it will be based on political strategy,” she said.
Hanson sits in the Senate at present, but with surging polling she has begun openly considering a move to the lower house where she could hold the position of prime minister should her party’s polling convert to votes. There has been speculation that Hanson would run in a number of Queensland electorates, including Capricornia, Oxley, Blair and Wright.
In polling published in The Australian Financial Review yesterday, One Nation received primary support of 31 per cent, above Labor at 28 and the Coalition at 20. This is the first and only major Australian poll to show One Nation leading the primary vote, after months of surging support.
“The Albanese Labor government is the worst government I have ever seen, even their backbenchers are rising up against this, these tax cuts,” Hanson said. “They don’t know how to sell it to the people. That tells you there is clearly a dictatorship that goes on within the Labor Party in the caucus.”
