Australia's Populist One Nation Party Scores Historic Breakthrough With Special Election Victory
Australia’s populist One Nation has claimed a major electoral breakthrough in Western Australia, capturing the state seat of Secret Harbor and dealing a major defeat to leftist Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his governing Labor Party. The post Australia’s Populist One Nation Party Scores Historic Breakthrough With Special Election Victory appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
TL;DR
- One Nation secured the state seat of Secret Harbor in Western Australia.
- The victory is considered a major defeat for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's Labor Party.
- One Nation candidate Luke Herdegen won approximately 57 percent of the two-party-preferred vote against Labor.
- The result marks an important breakthrough for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party, indicating growing national support.
- One Nation's Western Australian leader, Rod Caddies, declared the result would send "shock waves across the entire country."
- One Nation campaigns on lower immigration, tougher law and order, economic nationalism, opposition to net-zero policies, and resistance to progressive social policies.
- The Liberal Party finished a distant third with 17 percent of the primary vote.