Queensland election 2017: One Nation supporter snapshot
THE most exhaustive analysis yet of Queensland’s surging One Nation movement – poised to wreak havoc at the state election – reveals many supporters don’t even care about its policies.
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THEY backed Donald Trump, cheer for rugby league, and make ends meet on less than $50,000 a year.
The most exhaustive analysis yet of Queensland’s rising One Nation movement, which is poised to wreak havoc at the November 25 election, has revealed many of the party’s supporters are retired or unemployed, and they don’t even care about its policies.
They’ll vote for Pauline Hanson’s party believing it will shake things up, and because they think the major parties are deplorable.
However, three out of four plan to put the Tim Nicholls-led LNP above Labor on their ballot papers, in a result that would snuff out Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s quest for re-election.
The ReachTEL survey of 3435 residents across Queensland paints a picture of a political wrecking ball that’s determined to skittle the status quo in less than two weeks’ time.
The poll found 69.9 per cent were rooting for another anti-establishment movement – Donald Trump’s campaign to be president during the US election.
A third follow rugby league, and there is little love for the “world game”, with only 4.5 per cent saying they like soccer.
However, their education is evenly split, with 31.7 per cent holding a university degree and 29.5 per cent a TAFE certificate, while 31.1 per cent ended their learning after high school, and just over 6 per cent completed their learning after primary school.
While some work in construction and mining (9.4 per cent) and others in transport, health, retail and manufacturing, almost 40 per cent of One Nation supporters say they are retired or unemployed.
About the same percentage live in households that are trying to make ends meet on less than $50,000 a year, and very few (4.9 per cent) earn more than $200,000.
Politically, 45.7 per cent voted for the LNP at the last Queensland election, while 19.8 per cent supported Labor, and 21.1 per cent Katter’s Australian Party.
And 67.2 per cent reckon their vote will help lead to an LNP government in a power-sharing arrangement with Senator Hanson’s party, while 21.7 per cent say it will be Labor that strikes the deal.
Very few expect the major parties will hold power in their own right.
However, only 13 per cent say they are motivated by One Nation’s policies, while 22.9 per cent indicated they were determined to “shake things up”, and 22.2 per cent disliked the major parties.
Managing immigration, however, was overwhelmingly the key issue for the re-emerged One Nation voting block (34.4 per cent), followed by concerns over crime (17 per cent), and job creation (16.8 per cent).
However, with 74.5 per cent choosing the LNP as their preferred major party after Labor scrapped Queensland’s “Just Vote 1” laws, there’s a chance they may end up with a Nicholls government that doesn’t need One Nation.
Originally published as Queensland election 2017: One Nation supporter snapshot
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