One Nation has surged past the Liberal Party as the second most popular party in South Australia ahead of the state election.<\/p>\n
According to the latest YouGov poll, conducted for The Advertiser, One Nation has captured 22 per cent of the state vote ahead of Saturday’s election.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the SA Liberals face a historic crisis, with the possibility that the party could fail to hold a single seat in the lower house after the election.<\/p>\n
It comes after the Liberals preferenced One Nation over Labor, breaking with longstanding tradition that the major parties put the minor party last.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Labor Premier Peter Malinauskas is on track to win with a massive 38 per cent primary vote, and a dominant 59-41 two-party preferred lead.<\/p>\n
The Liberal Party, under new leader Ashton Hurn, has struggled to capture voters with just a 19 per cent primary.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One Nation’s surge in public support in SA comes after former federal Liberal senator Cory Bernardi defected to One Nation.<\/p>\n
Mr Bernardi has run on the Legislative Council ticket for One Nation, attacking the major parties as a \u201cuni-party\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’d love to be the official opposition and ultimately we’d love to beat the government because Australia needs something better,\u201d Mr Bernardi told Sky News recently.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re not just tax slaves for the government, we’re actually trying to make and build a better state and that ultimately will benefit every person who wants to live in this state.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Malinauskas and the SA Labor Party have increasingly turned their attention to One Nation as the election draws nearer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look for One Nation\u2019s health policy, you\u2019ll find nothing \u2026 just a lot of videos complaining about culture war issues,\u201d Mr Malinauskas said on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Malinauskas government has campaigned on large government investment and new infrastructure, particularly in housing and health services.<\/p>\n
The Liberal Party has run on tax relief, incentives, and system reforms, including abolishing stamp duty for many first-home buyers, and spending cuts.<\/p>\n
One Nation has promised affordable energy through a new coal-fired power station and repealing the ban on nuclear energy \u2013 as well as lower immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation has surged past the Liberal Party as the second most popular party in South Australia ahead…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":548086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8931,43,1788,4273,271209,44,60504,121980,1124,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-548085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-auspol","tag-headlines","tag-labor","tag-liberal","tag-malinauskas-government","tag-news","tag-one-nation","tag-sa-election","tag-south-australia","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/548086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}