One Nation's Current Lack Of Support In QLD Put Down To Powderfinger's 1998 Diss Track 'The Day You Come'

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Recent data shows that Queenslanders view One Nation as merely a volatile political hand grenade that their state has gleefully chucked south of the border.

Pauline Hanson is no longer Queensland's problem, as the Crisafulli Government maintains their place as the only electable right-wing in the country.

Recent polling data shows that Queensland is bucking all nationwide political trends, with the LNP polling above both Labor and the minor parties with a 34% primary vote.

In this month's DemosAU poll of 1,291 Queensland voters, Crisafulli holds steady - while Labor lifted one point to 26% and One Nation slipped 3 points to 21%.

Not only is Queensland a mainland anomaly by having elected a Liberal National government that they appear to be happy with, but the Labor Opposition is also not at threat of One Nation - as the tear well ahead of the margin of error.

The same cannot be said for the Southern states, who are suddenly acting like they've never heard of Pauline Hanson before - and find her merry gang of misfits quite refreshing.

In Victoria, the people are staring down the barrel of either elected a tired Labor government - or a mutant coalition of One Nation and the Liberals.

At a Federal level, the Coalition are at serious risk of losing every single seat outside of the cities at the next election, as One Nation outperforms them in the noisy social media landscape.

But for some reason, Pauline Hanson just isn't getting the cut-through in Queensland.

In fact, she hasn't really been a political threat north of the Tweed River since the late 1990s.

While her high tide put the fear of God into the LNP at the 1998 QLD state election, where the controversial party split the conservative vote and won 11 seats - the people of Queensland soon grew tired of her.

Firstly, when they realised that she achieved nothing but cementing the incumbent Labor government for another term.

Secondly, when the majority of her elected MPs the quit the party within a year and then wasted four years as clueless independents poking around QLD Parliament.

However, it was Powderfinger's 1998 alternative rock ballad 'The Day You Come' that finished off One Nation in the Sunshine State.

The Brisbane's band's first single off their third studio album, Internationalist, this song was released just as Pauline Hanson and One Nation started getting the wobbles. With lyrics that pertain to a crazed and unhealthy populist political culture that serve nobody but the interests of the rich and powerful, it placed number 8 on the Triple J Hottest 100 and won the ARIA single of the year.

Within six months of The Day You Come being released, Pauline Hanson was eviscerated for another two decades, when the Liberal Party became so un-electable that the long-suffering voters down south began flirted with letting history repeat itself.