after support with the group surged over the beginning of the year<\/a>.<\/p>\nThirty-two per cent of all working-class respondents suggested they would vote for One Nation, a one per cent improvement since March 10.<\/p>\n
It came despite pundits’ early claims that One Nation had only captured the attention of traditional right-wing voters.<\/p>\n
A further 26 per cent of working-class voters would support Labor, while just 15 per cent would back the current Coalition.<\/p>\n
Voters identified as working class comprised just over half of all respondents.<\/p>\n
Just 12 per cent of “well-off” respondents supported Senator Hanson\u2019s crew.<\/p>\n
Instead, well-off Aussies largely backed Labor to lead the country, with 39 per cent of the group indicating it would vote again for the current government.<\/p>\n
A further 31 per cent of well-off respondents supported the Coalition.<\/p>\n
About 32 per cent of middle-class Australians would vote again for the Labor government.<\/p>\n
The Coalition led One Nation among the group by just one per cent, 23 and 22 per cent of middle-class support respectively.<\/p>\n
One Nation appeared to wrench away votes from the Coalition over December and January and has since consolidated support with modest gains amongst its core demographic.<\/p>\n
Senator Hanson has transformed her persistent and at times controversial platform into a party of four seats in the federal Senate and one in the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n
The party at the weekend converted its polling surge to a huge proportion of the primary vote in the South Australian state election.<\/p>\n
Labor collected a decisive 38.1 per cent of the total primary vote, trailed not by the Coalition, but One Nation, according to the latest count.<\/p>\n
One Nation collected 22.4 per cent of the primary vote as of Tuesday evening \u2013 the party’s strongest primary vote since the 1998 Queensland election.<\/p>\n
The Liberals trailed on 19.3 per cent.<\/p>\n
Senator Hanson claimed the newfound support at the booth was \u201cjust the start\u201d of her movement and said she felt \u201cvindicated\u201d after three decades in politics.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not just a protest vote… you have no idea what the hell has happened in this country. There is a movement and there is an undercurrent, and it is people saying we\u2019ve had a gutful, we want our country back,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel different, I don\u2019t know what it is, I\u2019m excited, but I\u2019m sort of holding my cards close to my chest in a lot of ways because I\u2019ve been in this position before and it all falls apart because of preferences and the rest of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Premier Peter Malinauskas warned on ABC Radio the election result could harm federal Labor in the long-term, despite the party stealing away predominately Liberal voters in the state election.<\/p>\n
He said: \u201cOne Nation project patriotism in their form, we shouldn\u2019t sneer at it… it opens up an opportunity for others to talk about patriotism in a way that I think reflects our country\u201d.<\/p>\n
Mr Malinauskas believed the support should not be discarded or treated as an anomaly.<\/p>\n
His federal colleagues in the first Question Time since the election hardened their stance against Senator Hanson\u2019s party.<\/p>\n
Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles said One Nation \u201chave really only ever been about stunts and the vibe\u201d.<\/p>\n
MP Sally Sitou said One Nation had historically opposed policies benefiting working class Australians and likened the party to a \u201cbad Tinder date\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation is quickly closing the gap on Labor, with exclusive polling showing Pauline Hanson\u2019s party is just…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":678744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[4740,88644,606,15783,50,162361,80,4154,107865,144315,10871,50633],"class_list":["post-678743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-australia","tag-hanson","tag-labor","tag-liberal","tag-news","tag-one-nation","tag-politics","tag-poll","tag-pulse","tag-sky-news","tag-working-class","tag-yougov"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116285178852150697","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/678744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}