Richard Chambers

On Saturday night, the Libs pulled a primary vote of 12.

One Nation's primary vote was 42%, and the swing against the coalition was 31%.

That seat has been held by a Liberal or a National for 77 years.

They're the numbers.

Now the optics.

The party that One Nation threw at the Crooked Arm Hotel on Saturday night went off like you would not believe.

And across the road, the Liberals could only manage a crowd of about 50 people.

They're in all sorts of trouble.

I mean, Hanson's victory speech, if you can look it up, she said,

This is to Australians because it was telecast live right around the country.

You are no longer the forgotten people.

We are coming for you.

We want our country back.

And the place was rocking.

She came into the room.

to the sounds of John Farnham's You're the Voice and they all went crazy.

She's now got her eyes on Western Sydney.

The next test will be the Victorian state election in November.

They won't do as well in Victoria as they will in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and the other states of the country because Victoria is still more slightly to the left than anyone else.

But she's now claiming that migrants are voting in big numbers for her.