Ashlynne McGhee

And when you think about who they might form a coalition with, I mean, it's certainly not going to be the Greens, is it?

So, you know, Catter's Australia Party, the Nationals, the Libs, maybe?

Yeah.

So to get 76 seats or even, you know, a decent whack and form a coalition, I think it's going to be a really tough ask.

Yeah, so this is something I've been thinking about a lot, like what happens over the next, you know, 18 months, two years.

The One Nation that we see today is way more professional, way more organised than it ever has been, and a large part of that is due to James Ashby, who is Pauline Hanson's Chief of Staff, her right-hand man.

He's smart, strategic, stays out of the way.

He is a big part of why that party holds together.

But One Nation traditionally is chaos, like absolute chaos.

They're being wrapped over the years by defections, by scandals, by punch-ups, like physical punch-ups, blood being smeared on the door of someone's office, like crazy, crazy stuff, right?

So that's the first risk is that more chaos, more defections.

They get people in, but they leave the party.

People don't vote with them, all the rest of it.

The second is that the bigger you become as a party, the more establishment you become,

the less you're an outsider.

And that's really what One Nation sells itself on.

We're the outsider, we're the anti-establishment, anti-elite.

But if you're taking money from Gina Reinhart and those huge mining entities associated with her, how can you be anti-elite?

How can you be anti-establishment?

And at some point, the party's going to have to reckon with that and their voters are going to go, hang on a sec, like, is this our interests or their interests that you're representing?