One Nation Surges Ahead of Labor in Latest Newspoll

Support for the One Nation party was 31 per cent, ahead of Labor on 30 per cent, a Newspoll survey published in The Australian newspaper on Monday showed. Albanese’s net approval rating has sunk to its lowest level since the 2022 election at minus 24, with 36 per cent of Australians satisfied with his performance, 60 per cent dissatisfied and 4 per cent uncommitted, according to the Newspoll survey. It echoes a Redbridge Group/Accent Research survey in the Australian Financial Review last week that showed Pauline Hanson’s party climbed above Labor in a nationwide opinion poll for the first time. The surge comes amid growing voter frustration over cost-of-living pressures, higher interest rates and a budget that many Australians say has done little to ease household strain. One Nation’s anti-immigration and economic nationalist message has been pitched at rural and regional Australia, with the party claiming its first ever elected seat in the lower house of parliament in a recent by-election for the seat of Farrer, a rural electorate in the southwest of New South Wales state.