Huge Grievance Pushes One Nation to Major Status

One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, poses for a photo with Liberal Party volunteers outside a polling booth ahead of the Farrer by-election in Albury, Australia on May 8, 2026. Jesse Thompson/Getty ImagesAustralia’s major political parties face a “huge amount of grievance” as a leading Liberal figure concedes his party’s decade of flawed policies has helped fuel the rise of One Nation.Polling from RedBridge Group and Accent Research shows Pauline Hanson’s One Nation could win up to 59 lower house seats if a federal election were held today.