{"id":707966,"date":"2026-06-01T09:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707966\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T09:30:11","slug":"australias-far-right-party-leads-in-national-poll-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/707966\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s far-right party leads in national poll for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sydney, Australia<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s far-right populist party One Nation overtook the ruling Labor party in a national opinion poll for the first time, buoyed by voter discontent over the centre-left government\u2019s recent budget measures.<\/p>\n<p>Primary support for One Nation rose four percentage points to 31 per cent from a month earlier, according to a closely watched poll by Redbridge Group and Accent Research.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-174042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Australia-Albury-One-Nation-campaign-posters-060526028.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"799\"  \/><br \/>Campaign signs depicting One Nation candidate David Farley and former Australia soldier Ben Roberts-Smith are displayed outside a pre-polling centre ahead of the Farrer by-election in Albury, Australia, on 6th May, 2026. PICTURE: Reuters\/Hollie Adams<\/p>\n<p>The ruling centre-left Labor party polled at 28 per cent, down three points.<\/p>\n<p>Support for the conservative coalition opposition fell two points to 20 per cent.<\/p>\n<p>The polling comes after the government\u2019s 12th May budget introduced the biggest changes to property taxes in decades, to tackle intergenerational inequity.<\/p>\n<p>The results suggest the proposed measures failed to win over voters, and were especially unpopular with the Gen X and Baby Boomer cohorts.<\/p>\n<p>But it also appeared unpopular among younger Australians it aims to benefit.<\/p>\n<p>\tWe rely on our readers to fund Sight&#8217;s work &#8211; become a financial supporter today!<\/p>\n<p>Just 26 per cent of Millennials and 13 per cent of Gen Z voters believed the budget would be good for them, it showed.<\/p>\n<p>Labor was still ahead of One Nation 51 per cent to 49 per cent on a two-party-preferred basis, when respondents distribute preferences under Australia\u2019s ranked-choice voting system.<\/p>\n<p>The poll of 1,005 voters, with an error margin of 3.4 per cent, was held between 25th and 28th May.<\/p>\n<p>Since its 1997 launch, One Nation, led by Pauline Hanson, has had only a peripheral presence in Australia\u2019s parliament.<\/p>\n<p>But its recent resurgence came after it tapped into voter anxieties over high living costs, economic uncertainty and anti-immigration sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sydney, AustraliaReuters Australia\u2019s far-right populist party One Nation overtook the ruling Labor party in a national opinion poll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,93361,6070,7747,12351,44,60504,37913,14754],"class_list":["post-707966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baby-boomer","tag-gen-x","tag-gen-z","tag-millennials","tag-news","tag-one-nation","tag-opinion-polls","tag-pauline-hanson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707966","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=707966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}