‘F***wit’: Young One Nation voter tees off
It’s always a gamble when you’re asking Australians who they voted for at the polls.
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It’s always a gamble when you’re asking Australians who they voted for at the polls.
At a centre in the electorate of Bradfield, on Sydney’s upper North Shore, one young man didn’t mince words when telling Sky News why he’d voted for One Nation candidate John Manton.
“That’s probably the best party because I’m sick of Albanese and Dutton,” he declared.
“Well, Dutton’s better, but Albanese is just a f***wit.”
His dad, who voted for independent candidate Nicolette Boele, had a far less potty-mouthed response.
“(We) need a change. (We) need to make these guys start to listen to the people of Australia and do what we need,” the man said.
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“It’s just too, too boring. They’re just always the same, all the time.”
Meanwhile, residents of South-Western Sydney’s Fowler are turning their backs on the two major parties as they head to the polls today.
A family wearing ‘Make Australia Great Again’ T-shirts told news.com.au that they had been “failed at a local and federal level.”
“We are voting for Dai Le (Independent MP). She’s a local girl and she’s in touch.”
The group claim Liverpool council has “gone broke” and that “immigration is choking the area”.
The final Newspoll has revealed the combined primary vote of the major parties has fallen to a record low, with support for both Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton declining in their final week of campaigning.
Both parties’ primary vote has suffered a one-point slide, with the Coalition falling to 34 per cent and Labor to 33 per cent.
That leaves the combined vote for the two major parties on 67 per cent – 1.3 per cent less than the 2022 election, which was the lowest on record at the time.
Though polling suggests Mr Albanese is on track to secure his second term as Prime Minister, there’s no guarantee it will be with a majority government.
According to the final RedBridge-Accent poll, published by The Daily Telegraph, a two-party preferred basis Labor now leads the Coalition 53 per cent to 47 per cent – pointing to a hung parliament with a Labor minority.
The poll also found that 47 per cent of voters think the Labor government has not done enough to deserve re-election – compared to 40 per cent who think it has – and 36 per cent of voters saying they think they’ll be worse off by the next election in 2028.
Hanson declares One Nation is surging
A battle royale is emerging between One Nation and Tasmania’s Jacqui Lambie with Pauline Hanson’s daughter a shot to take the seat.
Ms Hanson, 70, is emerging as one of the biggest stories of the 2025 election campaign amid predictions her daughter could enter the Senate as the One Nation vote lifts.
The party’s vote is surging according to a number of polls, including in the regional seat of Spence in South Australia, amid forecasts it could pick up more Senate seats including in that state.
That could throw up some wildcards to current polling that suggests Labor could win a majority because preference flows are not the same as the last election.
The veteran MP who first entered parliament nearly 30 years ago in 1996 is also campaigning with her daughter, Lee Hanson, who is running for the Senate in Tasmania.
If she wins, Australia’s first mother and daughter political duo will likely be at the expense of independent Jacqui Lambie, who Senator Hanson believes is not representing her constituents.
In an exclusive interview with news.com.au, the veteran MP has revealed she’s “had enough” of Senator Lambie “shrieking” in parliament and has taken matters into her own hands by hitting the campaign trail in Tasmania.
“ (Jacqui Lambie) votes constantly all the time with the Labor and Greens. She’s not a conservative,’’ Senator Hanson said.
“I’m not happy with her,” Ms Hanson added.
“People want freedom of speech (but) now she’s blocked my private member’s bill I put up to have a look at freedom of speech. She’s blocked a Senate inquiry into Covid.”
Senator Hanson has suggested that Senator Lambie’s comments on the state’s $1.46bn salmon industry earlier this month – in which she said, “We don’t want that bloody salmon farming in Tasmania, they can p*** off” – were a problem.
“What a Member of parliament has to do is investigate to ensure that there’s some way around. Working out what the problem is – you don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater.
“(Senator Lambie) has not bothered. She doesn’t give a damn.
“Her attitude is, ‘oh, well, let them go and learn another trade or do something else.’
“She’s quite happy to throw these workers on the scrap heap. I have to work to throw her onto the scrap heap.
“She doesn’t care. I want to see her gone. A swing is on.”
Senator Hanson announced her daughter’s candidacy only a month ago but with One Nation’s vote on the rise the party believes it’s a real possibility.
“My mother is polarising. I’m not my mother. I’m very different,” Lee Hanson said last month.
“But I appreciate she’s taught me the values of honesty, integrity, to stand up and give a voice to those who don’t feel they have a voice.
“If you had asked me 10 years ago if I would be standing here right now, I would say ‘absolutely not, no way’,” she said.
Originally published as ‘F***wit’: Young One Nation voter tees off
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