The result in Farrer has made One Nation's attempts to become the natural home for conservative Australians look less like a protest and more like a genuine electoral threat.
In a way this isn’t surprising. I’m from Griffith, which wasn’t originally part of Farrer but got brought into the seat a couple of years ago. We suddenly went from having a representative people seemed OK with to being part of one of the largest electorates in the state with the typical setup of an MP in Sussan Ley who had been there for years that did nothing for the place but never got voted out.
Sussan Ley was health minister for a bit, then ended up leading the party out of default through lack of any better option.
It was never going to go Labor because it never had been, and they weren’t given the option. And it’s not like anyone else gave them a compelling choice to vote for them who would realistically get in.
Combine this with the media telling everyone how One Nation is ascending and your right wing brain worm algorithms and it’s no surprise this happened. Are commentators really worried, or will this make the news a lot more intere see ting for them in the lead up to the next few elections?
In a way this isn’t surprising. I’m from Griffith, which wasn’t originally part of Farrer but got brought into the seat a couple of years ago. We suddenly went from having a representative people seemed OK with to being part of one of the largest electorates in the state with the typical setup of an MP in Sussan Ley who had been there for years that did nothing for the place but never got voted out.
Sussan Ley was health minister for a bit, then ended up leading the party out of default through lack of any better option.
It was never going to go Labor because it never had been, and they weren’t given the option. And it’s not like anyone else gave them a compelling choice to vote for them who would realistically get in.
Combine this with the media telling everyone how One Nation is ascending and your right wing brain worm algorithms and it’s no surprise this happened. Are commentators really worried, or will this make the news a lot more intere see ting for them in the lead up to the next few elections?