{"id":709318,"date":"2026-06-02T00:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709318\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T00:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T00:44:10","slug":"federal-politics-live-chalmers-not-concerned-about-first-home-buyers-falling-into-negative-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/709318\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal politics live: Chalmers not concerned about first home buyers falling into negative equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">When it comes to reading political polling, it is worth taking a leaf out of Pauline Hanson&#8217;s book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">The One Nation leader, whose popularity has soared in the past 12 months, would be the first to say she doesn&#8217;t put too much stock in the numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">That&#8217;s not to suggest the results aren&#8217;t to be taken seriously, only that a poll can only reveal so much.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Polling is a useful tool for detecting trends and providing a snapshot of sentiment in a moment of time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Few, including Hanson, count them as predictors of results \u2014 particularly elections that remain years away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Even as One Nation has continued to hoover up a sizeable chunk of Australians&#8217; first preference vote, Hanson has generally been cautious in her direct commentary not to count her chickens before they&#8217;ve hatched.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph___QITb\">Read the full analysis at the link below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to reading political polling, it is worth taking a leaf out of Pauline Hanson&#8217;s book.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":698606,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[155074,2324,64,63,99,164,2323,2322,160,84],"class_list":["post-709318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-angus-taylor","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-federal-parliament","tag-federal-politics","tag-live-blog","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709318","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=709318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/698606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}