{"id":8906,"date":"2026-05-11T03:51:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/8906\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T03:51:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T03:51:31","slug":"one-nation-turns-to-western-sydney-after-farrer-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/8906\/","title":{"rendered":"One Nation turns to Western Sydney after Farrer landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Nation is eyeing up Labor strongholds in Western Sydney and fielding potential candidates for the 2028 federal election, Barnaby Joyce says, after the far-right party won the seat of Farrer in a historic upset.<\/p>\n

The populist party\u2019s candidate David Farley was elected as the member for Farrer on Saturday in a thumping victory that broke the Coalition\u2019s 77-year hold on the rural NSW seat.<\/p>\n

\"Pauline<\/p>\n

Pauline Hanson has led the One Nation party since it was formed in 1997. Picture: NewsWire \/ Simon Dallinger<\/p>\n

It was One Nation\u2019s first successful contest for a lower house seat since its founding in 1997.<\/p>\n

The New England MP claimed on the night of the Farrer win that One Nation was coming for Western Sydney.<\/p>\n

He doubled down on this in comments to Seven\u2019s Sunrise on Monday, and did not rule out coming after Energy Minister Chris Bowen\u2019s seat of McMahon.<\/p>\n

It includes the cities of Blacktown, Penrith, Cumberland and Fairfield.<\/p>\n

\"Barnaby<\/p>\n

Barnaby Joyce defected from the Nationals to join One Nation in November. Picture: NewsWire \/ Martin Ollman<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are very much in the mind for western suburbs of Sydney. I was talking to people from the western suburbs of Sydney last night \u2026 on the ground,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo be quite frank, I think we\u2019re talking to potential candidates. People are very enthusiastic. \u201cThey know we have a huge potential as a nation, and they want to be part of that potential, not part of this butterfly chasing exercise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Joyce declined to provide details on the candidates being canvassed but said they were \u201cfirst generation, second generation Australians\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u2018A great deal of disappointment\u2019<\/p>\n

Anthony Albanese attributed Mr Farley\u2019s win to a strategic mistake by the Coalition in \u201clegitimising\u201d One Nation, including its decision to preference the far-right party.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the Liberal Party and National Party made a big mistake legitimising One Nation and adopting many of their policies but a lighter version of them,\u201d the Prime Minister told ABC Radio National.<\/p>\n

\"PRIME<\/p>\n

Anthony Albanese said the Coalition effectively endorsed One Nation. Picture: NewsWire \/ Martin Ollman<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd then following that up by giving them preferences, they were saying effectively that it was OK to vote for One Nation rather than the traditional conservative party.\u201d
Mr Albanese added there was a \u201cgreat deal of disappointment\u201d among conservative voters with the break-up of the Coalition, which split twice \u2013 first in May 2025, then again the following January.<\/p>\n

He said the ousting of former opposition leader Sussan Ley, who held Farrer for more than two decades, was also a factor.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe removal of a leader who had represented of course that seat in Sussan Ley for 25 years but who was removed without even being given the opportunity to do a single budget reply,\u201d Mr Albanese said.<\/p>\n

\"LIBERAL<\/p>\n

Mr Albanese said former Farrer MP Sussan Ley\u2019s ousting as Liberal leader left a legacy of \u2018betrayal\u2019. Picture: NewsWire \/ Martin Ollman<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the way that was done, having these meetings on the day of the funeral of one of their former colleagues, I think left an extraordinary legacy of betrayal for people who had supported Sussan Ley for a long period of time.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd also, quite clearly, there\u2019s a lot of people under financial pressure who feel like the system isn\u2019t working for them.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd that\u2019s a message for all political parties in the system.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation is eyeing up Labor strongholds in Western Sydney and fielding potential candidates for the 2028 federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[483,4918,1946,1488,1955,1941,247,10264,265],"class_list":{"0":"post-8906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sydney","8":"tag-anthony-albanese","9":"tag-barnaby-joyce","10":"tag-david-farley","11":"tag-farrer","12":"tag-one-nation","13":"tag-sussan-ley","14":"tag-sydney","15":"tag-the-coalition","16":"tag-western-sydney"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/australia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}