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Pauline Hanson is having a victory lap at the moment.

I think it's maybe the happiest that I've ever seen her in 30 years of watching her on the national stage because even when she was elected, it was as an independent.

Barnaby Joyce jumped ship from the nationals.

But this is people putting one next to a One Nation candidate at the voting booth.

While the Liberals and the Nationals had preference, David Farley, in the end, he didn't even really need those preferences because he was so far ahead on first preferences that, you know, it was overwhelmingly he was the choice of the electorate.

And so, yeah, Pauline Hanson is very, very happy and she started talking about, you know, One Nation's dominance and to which an extent that is absolutely true.

What we're seeing is a reordering of the right when it comes to mainstream politics in Australia.

One Nation's rise has corresponded with the Coalition's decline and it's all happened quite rapidly after the last federal election.

So what Pauline Hanson now is doing is talking about where One Nation is heading next, and that's national seats, but it's also outer suburban seats.

And Pauline Hanson has said that Western Sydney is on her list, including in the Liberal-held seat of Lindsay, which Melissa McIntosh, who considers herself one of the future leaders of the Liberal Party, currently holds.

And the Liberal Party is quite worried about One Nation's impact on...

on seats like Lindsay and what that's going to mean over the next couple of years.

I think there is a lot of anger, but there always has been, particularly in regional Australia.

Regional Australia feels very abandoned by mainstream politics.

That's not new.

And in a lot of cases, they're right to feel abandoned.

I mean, Barnaby Joyce, when he was nationals leader, used to make a point of saying that the nationals electorates were the poorest in the country.