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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Senator Pauline Hanson's party is challenging the coalition as Australia's conservative party of choice, and she's identified kicking Labor out of government as the major goal. So as One Nation shakes up this electoral cycle, this Squid Shortcut will get you across the party's signature policies and who is influencing them. Squid Shortcuts is the backstory to the big news stories.
I'm Alice Dempster. And I'm Anna Pikett. Anna, the polls continue to show a historic rise in support for Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party. According to a Resolve poll in the nine newspapers this week, Senator Hanson is now the preferred PM. And over the past two weeks, a couple of big polls showed that her party's moved into first place on primary votes. That's ahead of Labor and the Coalition.
It's the first time a major party has been bumped out of that position since World War II.
And that's why it's been a big news story in the last bit of time. Claire and Kate talked about the surge in popularity for One Nation in News Club on the weekend at length. So head to the News Club podcast if you want to hear that conversation from a couple of political veterans. To be clear, on those polling results, Labour would still win the next election.
And as we always say, take the polls with a grain of salt because they aren't always right. But there's no denying that One Nation's support is surging.
Yeah, and we know that from real life when you look at two elections that have been held this year. The first being South Australia's state election, where One Nation won four lower house seats. That was historic because it was the first time in the party's nearly 30-year-long history that it won state lower house seats outside of Queensland. And then there was the Faribuy election.
That's the federal seat in New South Wales that had been held by former Liberal Party leader Susan Lee for 25 years. One Nation's David Farley won that in spectacular fashion, and it was the first win the party has had directly to the House of Reps. So when you add the polling results to a couple of occasions where voters had their say, something's clearly happening. Yeah, something's happening.
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Chapter 2: What is the current support level for One Nation and its significance?
We're talking immigration and their responses to climate change and energy policy. We'll get into that in a second. But before we do, let's take a walk down One Nation's memory lane.
I've got my walking boots on, Alice. As we mentioned earlier, One Nation's been around for a while. It was established by Queensland MP Pauline Hanson in 1997. I was six at that point. She was the member for Oxley and was originally a Liberal candidate.
She was disendorsed by the party in the lead up to the 1996 election over comments she made about Indigenous Australians, but she ran as an Independent and she won.
And if you follow politics from that time, you'll know that Hanson's controversial maiden speech where she infamously declared Australia was in danger of being swamped by Asians, saw her become an overnight national figure.
There was a big backlash to that, but she also formed a base of support, particularly among rural and working class Australians who felt that they were being ignored by the major parties during a period of rapid economic change.
It all sounds a bit familiar, doesn't it? But back in the late 90s, that was ultimately the start of the party that was then called Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Alice, I think it's interesting that its foundations are still so relevant today. On its website, One Nation says it's a party that stands for Australia and Australian values.
It's big on immigration cuts and ditching global climate targets.
And it's those two policy areas where we've heard them taking plenty of potshots at the government. Let's start with immigration. What are their current policies?
Right. So One Nation wants to cap the total number of visa arrivals at 130,000. Currently, net overseas migration, that's the number of arrivals less the number of people leaving the country, is projected to be 295,000 for this year. And the federal government has a target of 225,000 by 2028. So we're on track to reduce the numbers, but the government argues that we do need migration.
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