{"id":660351,"date":"2026-05-09T18:58:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660351\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T18:58:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:58:16","slug":"australias-far-right-party-claims-landmark-lower-house-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/660351\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s far-right party claims landmark lower house victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian far-right populist party Pauline Hanson’s One Nation won its first seat in the country’s House of Representatives in a byelection on Saturday, a preliminary vote count showed.<\/p>\n

The result is consistent with a surge in electoral support for far-right populist parties globally. <\/p>\n

Britain’s ruling Labour party this week suffered a widespread loss of seats at council elections.<\/p>\n

David Farley, a former agribusiness executive, won the rural seat of Farrer, some 550 km (340 miles) south of Sydney and 320 km (200 miles) north of Melbourne, for the anti-immigration party with 59.3 percent of the vote, defeating the incumbent centre-right Liberal Party, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.<\/p>\n

One Nation’s first preference vote in the byelection was 42 percent, the ABC said, compared to the 6.6 percent first-preference vote it got at a federal election last May.<\/p>\n

“We’re like a mason with a chisel and we’re carving letters into Australia’s democracy,” Farley said at a televised election event. <\/p>\n

“One Nation has reached the end of its beginning.”<\/p>\n

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First Lower-House seat since party formed<\/p>\n

The result is significant in that it marks the first time One Nation has won a lower-house seat since Hanson formed the party 30 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian far-right populist party Pauline Hanson’s One Nation won its first seat in the country’s House of Representatives…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":660352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-660351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660351","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=660351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/660351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/660352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=660351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=660351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=660351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}