{"id":848381,"date":"2026-08-08T21:10:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848381\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T21:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T21:10:19","slug":"andrew-hastie-seat-liberal-mp-faces-mounting-pressure-from-one-nation-in-canning-as-party-ramps-up-national-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/848381\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Hastie seat: Liberal MP faces mounting pressure from One Nation in Canning as party ramps up national expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"

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August 8, 2026 \u2014 7:00pm<\/p>\n

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One Nation has launched its campaign against Liberal leadership hopeful Andrew Hastie, just days after the opposition frontbencher acknowledged his own \u201cpolitical mortality<\/a>\u201d in the face of the resurgent minor party.<\/p>\n

The party\u2019s leader in Western Australia, Rod Caddies, and Luke Herdegen, the state candidate for the impending Secret Harbour byelection, opened the Canning branch on Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n

\"AndrewAndrew Hastie has backflipped on his staunch opposition to One Nation.Alex Ellinghausen<\/p>\n

Meanwhile in Victoria, freshly endorsed state leader Warren Pickering has de-emphasised his previous endorsement of conspiracy theories<\/a> as the Victorian arm of the party also expands and garners fresh scrutiny before the November election.<\/p>\n

At the Canning branch launch, One Nation did not announce a candidate or policies, but has vowed to run a strong opponent against Hastie. Party leadership has attacked the Coalition frontbencher for giving evidence in Ben Roberts-Smith\u2019s failed defamation action<\/a> against this masthead and his role as a potential witness in the accused war criminal\u2019s upcoming trial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Caddies said One Nation polled well in the area and would campaign hard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut it won\u2019t be because it\u2019s [Hastie\u2019s] seat. It\u2019ll be because I\u2019m planning to help target every seat in this state and join my federal colleagues in supporting them in making sure that we win as many seats as possible,\u201d he said ahead of the launch.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou would be a fool not to be worried with the polling that\u2019s been done and the support we\u2019re getting on the street. One Nation\u2019s momentum is massive. Anyone that says they\u2019re not worried, I guess you can take that for what it is. But if I was the member … I would be concerned that there will be a change of representation.\u201d<\/p>\n

A seat-by-seat analysis conducted by Redbridge for The Australian Financial Review in May predicted Hastie would lose his seat in a populist surge. The Liberal frontbencher this week signalled for the first time he could lose, saying he hoped for One Nation\u2019s preferences after previously vowing never to \u201cbend the knee\u201d to Pauline Hanson.<\/p>\n

The previous One Nation candidate, Fernando Bove, won 11.4 per cent of first preferences at the 2025 federal election, with a 6.8 per cent swing.<\/p>\n

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One Nation is mobilising in the region before the Secret Harbour byelection, where long-term Labor minister Paul Papalia has retired.<\/p>\n

WA Labor Premier Roger Cook has warned voting for One Nation would bring \u201cthe chaos of the eastern states to Western Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n

One Nation\u2019s rapid expansion, with a goal to run candidates in every electorate around the country, has opened up fresh scrutiny for the minor party.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Pickering pivoted from his previous support for conspiracy theories after this masthead revealed his history with the state\u2019s \u201cfreedom movement\u201d.<\/p>\n

Pickering, a self-described conspiracy theorist, has claimed Australian government policy is controlled by a cabal of foreign \u201cglobalists\u201d, and endorsed the idea that the world economy was deliberately crashed to trigger a \u201cgreat reset<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

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He has also peddled the debunked \u201c15-minute city\u201d conspiracy, which claims policies aimed at ensuring citizens live near essential services are a plot to confine citizens and strip them of their freedoms.<\/p>\n

Pickering on Saturday vowed it \u201cwas absolutely not anything we will be campaigning on in this state election\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith respect to conspiratorial type conversations, if you go a bit more into the context of those rallies and things I\u2019d said previously, you will find that \u2026 it was in the build-up to a federal election, and surrounding things like a lot of these quotas under the pretense of sustainability and net zero,\u201d he told News24. \u201cSo the Paris Agreement and UN Refugee Convention, which are drafted and administered by UN and WEF [World Economic Forum] organisations. So, look, it\u2019s not conspiratorial, but it\u2019s also not related to a state election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked to explain his opposition to 15-minute cities, he said Victoria was removing community consultation processes on high-rise developments \u201cunder the pretense of sustainability\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s the best way to describe it in the short term,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Pickering also said it was \u201cinevitable\u201d that One Nation would continue banning news organisations after the minor party barred The Age, ABC and The Guardian from a press conference on Monday at which it was announcing a handful of candidates for the upcoming state election.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a good move because within 24 hours, all three of those publications had managed to push out a bit of a hit piece on myself,\u201d he told News24, referring to reporting on his embrace of conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n

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