Amy Remeikis

And I think it's very interesting that we've since seen the announcement that the Nationals will be preferencing the One Nation candidate in FARA, and the Liberals have preferenced the One Nation candidate ahead of the Independent, Michelle Miltrop, who is running in there, and Labor, of course, is not running.

So there is some sort of cosying up that is still happening there.

I think also we have to put it in the context of what's happening at the world now, where these are not existential problems.

These are very real problems.

And the government, domestic issues aside, has been working very hard to assure people that it is out there, it is getting the fuel, it is shoring up those stocks, that we have more fuel than we did at the beginning of this crisis.

And that is reassuring people in a time of crisis that the government is actually doing something.

And so I think some of those people who are flirting with One Nation have gone, oh, in terms of a real crisis, we should probably go to somebody who actually has things to solve there.

But I think we're going to see a lot of attention paid to the FARA by election, although I think that the South Australian election is probably a better indicator of what we're going to see happen in Victoria rather than FARA.

Puffer jackets and Range Rovers, it is.

It was interesting to me on the drive along the highway there how many giant Australian flags and One Nation posters I saw in people's yards.

I think, you know, One Nation is absolutely going to have an impact here.

One Nation has been welcomed by Sorrento and I'm not sure whether that would be something that people would have considered something that, you know, this...

largely old money white community would have started turning to.

But economic crises tend to be great equalisers in that everybody feels aggrieved in times of economic uncertainty.

And so you get this great equaliser of economic stress at all of the ends of the spectrum.

You know, you can understand it with people who can't afford to eat or who can't afford to buy shoes for themselves or their children.

It's harder to understand when it comes to the wealthy, but they feel it too.

And I think that's what we're seeing played out in Sorrento and this seat at the moment.

However, I will say, though, again, like putting aside Peter Malinowskis' popularity in South Australia and Jacinta Allen's relative unpopularity in Victoria, I think when you look at how the South Australian election played out,

That probably is going to be a better indicator of what we're going to see in Victoria and the next federal election, if all the polls hold, than what we see in Farah, which is a very concentrated debate that is very much about local issues, water and health and those sorts of things.