Polling reveals Jacqui Lambie has a higher net approval rating than Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton

Jacqui Lambie is brash, brave and controversial, and she doesn’t care who the next Prime Minister is, as long as they do this one thing. WATCH THE VIDEO

EXCLUSIVE: Brash. Brave. Controversial. Tasmanian Senator Jacqui Lambie pulled herself up by her bootstraps all the way to Parliament House where she intends to stay and keep the bastards honest.

The ADF veteran is facing her fifth election campaign and has Jacqui Lambie Network senate candidates running in NSW, Queensland, South Australia and of course her home state of Tasmania.

“Tasmania is very cliquey and we’re all related,” Senator Lambie said of her home state.

“No seriously, we are. At least in the north west where I’m from.”

Senator Jacqui Lambie has a higher net approval rating than Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton. Picture: Dylan Coker

Exclusive RedBridge polling has confirmed Senator Lambie has the highest net approval rating out of politicians including Anthony Albanese, Peter Dutton, Adam Bandt, Simon Holmes a Court, Pauline Hanson and Clive Palmer.

Senator Lambie has a net approval rating of minus one, Mr Albanese has a net approval rating of minus four while Mr Dutton has a net approval rating of minus 15.

“She’s authentic and voters are all looking for authenticity even if they don’t subscribe to her views,” said RedBridge director and former Liberal strategist Tony Barry.

The research found 27 per cent of voters have a favourable or very favourable view of the straight shooting senator.

In contrast about 10 per cent of voters have a favourable or very favourable view of Clive Palmer, the billionaire with whom Lambie was first elected as part of the Palmer United Party in 2013.

Senator Lambie said she gets along with both Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and she doesn’t care whether the government is Liberal or Labor as long as they do the right thing.

“As I understand as I’ve got older, you need those people,” she said.

“So making enemies out of them, unless it’s an absolute necessity, don’t do it. If you get shitty with one of them, you have your say and you move on and you get on with it.”

Senator Lambie says the cost of living crisis and a deep distrust of politicians will be the biggest issues of the election campaign. She said she reckoned giving the Albanese government a second term would likely deliver stability Australia needed amid global chaos brought by the US re-electing Donald Trump.

“I would feel more confident in seeing whether these guys [ALP] have got what it takes in the next three years than going back from scratch rather than going back to an old party again and then restarting,” she said.

“I just don’t think the country can afford that instability.”

Senator Lambie said Australia needed to do a better job at standing up to Donald Trump after the US president slapped tariffs on a range of products including beef and steel.

“Quite frankly Australia needs to do a better job standing up for itself and quite frankly I haven’t seen that out of both leaders [Mr Albanese and Mr Dutton],” she said.

“You wanna play Trump, you’ve got to play right back at him and there needs to be repercussions for what he’s done to Australia,” she said.

“Both our leaders do not have the courage to do that.”

Originally published as Polling reveals Jacqui Lambie has a higher net approval rating than Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton