Nation That Would Not Vote For Peter Dutton 6 Months Ago Is Suddenly Very Keen To Vote For Pauline Hanson, Says Australian Media

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Pauline Hanson will be the next Prime Minister of Australia, it has been confirmed.

This follows the news that the leader of One Nation has been tipped as the preferred Prime Minister in recent voter surveys, conducted in the first couple weeks of the 2026, not even 6 months after Labor were elected to government in a landslide 94 seat victory.

While some would say this early crow is reminiscent of the right-wing commentators declaring that Albanese would lose the 2025 election by a landslide because he was tanking in the polls after the unsuccessful Voice referendum - apparently it's different this time.

Because the embattled Coalition is no longer worth the media's time of day, so instead, they are now backing the upper house senator from Ipswich who has a 60% turnover rate for the petty criminals that she has previously dragged with her into Parliament over the last three decades.

The fact that the vast majority of Australians chose not to elect Peter Dutton in 2025 because he was 'A wannabe Trump' and 'Too Divisive' - is also irrelevant.

Because the embattled Coalition is being lead by a woman that is currently one step away from falling off the glass cliff, and apparently if the nation was asked to choose between the two female leaders today, they'd apparently pick the upper house senator from Ipswich who has a 60% turnover rate for the petty criminals that she has previously dragged with her into Parliament over the last three decades.

This is an interesting media narrative, considering that Pauline Hanson even more Trumpian and divisive than Peter Dutton, and even more isolating to the over 50% of Australian voters who are either migrants or the children of migrants.

Ignoring the fact that Senator Hanson has experienced this kind of short-lived renaissance about three or four times in her storied career as a right-wing slopulist media darling, and ignoring the fact that her greatest ever election result was in the 1998 Queensland state election where she gained 11 seats with poorly-vetted candidates that immediately became absent independents the moment they realised how hard the job was, the Australian media says it's worth completely giving up on the Liberal Party.

Because Pauline Hanson is now the one flying in Gina Rinehart's private jet, and not Sussan Ley.

The nation now waits with baited breath for Pauline Hanson to unveil her 'economic policy' as well as her plans for strengthening health and education outcomes for the Australian middle class. Her plans for tax reform are also expected to be very impressive.

But for now, her 'deportation and slash migration' policies are more than enough to have her surging ahead of both the Federal Coalition and the largest majority Labor government since Federation.

MORE TO COME.