One Nation leaders have vowed they\u2019re coming for Western Sydney and the rest of the country in an orange wave after a historic victory over the Liberals in the Farrer by-election.<\/p>\n
One Nation deputy leader Barnaby Joyce issued a warning to the prevailing political establishment on Saturday evening: \u201cHere we come\u201d.<\/p>\n
One Nation\u2019s newly-elected MP David Farley unseated the Coalition in the electorate for the first time in its 77-year history. It is also the first time the party has won a federal lower house seat at an election.<\/p>\n
The election is a staggering loss to the Liberal party, who have failed a first major test of Angus Taylor\u2019s leadership by losing the seat held by deposed leader Sussan Ley for 25 years.<\/p>\n
The result was called in less than two hours after the polls closed on Saturday, with Mr Farley taking a projected 59.44 per cent of the two candidate preferred votes as 9:30pm.<\/p>\n
Speaking at a packed out pub in Albury, The Bended Elbow, Mr Joyce said the party would be coming for Western Sydney seats in the next election, riding a wave of frustration at the prevailing political establishment.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky News\u2019 Paul Murray inside the One Nation election HQ in Albury, Mr Joyce gave a stark warning to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese that this was just the beginning for the party.<\/p>\n
When asked what his message was for Prime Minister Albanese, Mr Joyce said \u201cWestern Sydney, here we come – believe you me.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was talking to people from Lebanon, from all around the world – and guess what – they were at a One Nation function. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re coming to Western Sydney… we\u2019re coming to a hall near you. I look forward to meeting you there Chris Bowen, I\u2019ll be on the stage, come talk to me!\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking to a crowd of more than 200 supporters, to the chants of \u2018Aussie Aussie Aussie oi oi oi\u2019, Mr Farley said the party had \u201creached the end of its beginning\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re going through the ceiling from here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
He used his first speech to outline his plans to push for the end to net zero and to drastically cut migration.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to get the cost of living down and our first target is on this damn net zero program. It\u2019s going to be pulled down, ripped down and kicked out. It\u2019s not what Australia wants.<\/p>\n
\u201cAustralia should be for Australians,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe will not have housing supply, we will not get education right, we will not get health right until we address this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t want to be dependent on other countries for our energy. And we definitely don\u2019t want to be dependent on other countries bringing their culture into ours. We need Australia for Australians.\u201d<\/p>\n
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson had \u201ca tear in her eye\u201d after the victory and told the gathered crowd it was \u201ca win for the rest of Australia\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cMillions are watching on their TVs now and I believe it\u2019s giving them hope,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n
\u201c(We will) represent you, the people to get our country back.\u201d<\/p>\n
She used her speech to announce her first task after her party\u2019s historic victory will be to hold an agricultural Roundtable in the region and commit to releasing a gas plan next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat I want to do is put money back in our pockets from the gas industry – they are our resources and it\u2019s been given away,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI want a system where we will own part of that equity share in the exploration of gas. I\u2019m not just going allow them to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Earlier, Hanson told Sky News: \u201cA win for Farrer, but a bigger win for the nation.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone kept saying, \u2018you\u2019re our last hope\u2019, and that\u2019s how people feel.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re so distracted from the major political parties, they\u2019ve been left behind.<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t underestimate us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Hanson received a rockstar arrival when she, Mr Joyce and other One Nation federal senators entered One Nation HQ to thunderous applause, with the AC\/DC anthem Thunderstruck playing, and a sea of more than 200 supporters in orange.<\/p>\n
Every supporter and volunteer told The Daily Telegraph they believed history was about to be made and that they were at the beginning of \u201can orange wave\u201d about to take the country by storm.<\/p>\n
The MC of the evening joked that the \u201cdark forces had gathered\u201d in the room.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut never have I seen a brighter room than this one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Victorious candidate David Farley came to the stage to the John Farnham anthem You\u2019re The Voice, as One Nation senator Tyrone Whitten led the crowd in chants of \u201cAussie Aussie Aussie, oi oi oi\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Farley clapped along for the entirety of the song \u2013 next to Ms Hanson who appeared to not know all the words to the iconic track. <\/p>\n
Mr Farley, as member elect, said he was \u201cseriously humbled\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne Nation has reached the end of it\u2019s beginning and we\u2019re going through the ceiling from here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cListened, you agreed and you spoke tonight. What are you doing tonight? We\u2019re like a mason with a chisel and a hammer and we\u2019re re-carving the letter into Australian democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n
One Nation MP and former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce said the Hanson-led party was coming for Western Sydney next. <\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky News\u2019 Paul Murray inside the One Nation election HQ in Albury shortly after it was announced in the room that One Nation would win the seat, Mr Joyce was jovial. <\/p>\n
He declared that the people who voted for One Nation in Farrer were former Liberal, National and even Labor voters \u2013 and he issued a warning to Canberra that this was just the beginning for the minor party. <\/p>\n
\u201cRemember the Australian people have a tolerance,\u201d Mr Joyce said, donning an Akubra in the packed Bended Elbow pub. <\/p>\n
At 7pm, with more than 2700 formal votes counted, One Nation\u2019s David Farley had more than 49 per cent of those votes.<\/p>\n
Independent Michelle Milthorpe had made a slow start, taking in more than 19 per cent of the early vote.<\/p>\n
Liberal candidate Raissa Butkowski was trailing behind her Nationals counterpart Brad Robertson, with more than eight per cent and 10 per cent of the vote respectively.<\/p>\n
Mr Farley\u2019s win makes him the first One Nation candidate to win a seat in federal parliament\u2019s lower house.<\/p>\n
Issuing a statement, former Liberal leader Sussan Ley warned it would be \u201can error\u201d to <\/p>\n
\u201creduce both the scale and significance\u201d of the defeat \u201cto a Coalition<\/p>\n
split which occurred months ago\u201d or to \u201cmisattribute it to the date the vote was held\u201d.<\/p>\n