Casey Briggs

It's undeniable that a large part of One Nation's growth and support is not about the individual local candidates.

It's about Pauline Hanson and her profile and her ability to cut through where other politicians haven't.

And, yeah, we're seeing issues like this, the Ben Roberts Smith posters, which we saw as well in the PN in the Victorian state seat on the Mornington Peninsula.

It was by election there a week ago.

We saw the same signs appearing at polling places.

But...

For One Nation, they see this as a winner and it's a way to cut through.

They have made it a virtue of the fact that One Nation is supporting Ben Robert Smith through his war crimes trials and seem to think that that's going to pull people and grab attention and pull people over to their side.

Yeah, we saw this incident on the pre-polling centre during the week.

Are you giving a video?

Yes, I am.

You don't video me without... James Patterson is one of many, many Liberal frontbenchers that have been coming through Albury, and the Liberal Party have deployed this sign showing the One Nation candidate, David Farley, sort of pulling apart his shirt to reveal a Labor kind of logo T-shirt underneath it.

And it spilled over into a very public altercation between James Patterson and an angry One Nation volunteer.

That's assault.

You have just committed an assault.

Yes, you did.

We're seeing that happening as our sort of political world fragments.

But it's also interesting, Ruby, to look at, you know, we've had this interesting relationship between the Liberal Party and One Nation through the campaign, where on the one hand, they've been attacking One Nation, they've been attacking their candidates.

On the other hand, they're recommending preferences toward One Nation rather than the independents.

It's a complicated puzzle to unpick, and I do wonder what voters make of that, you know, seeing these sort of mixed messages out of the Liberal Party at the moment.