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One Nation Wins Australia Special Election, Claiming Seat in Lower House

9 May 2026 at 12:30
One Nation, an anti-immigration party with Trumpian policies that has risen in popularity, won a seat in Parliament’s lower house for the first time.

‘We’re coming after those other seats’: Pauline Hanson jubilant as One Nation wins Farrer byelection

9 May 2026 at 11:17

David Farley wins One Nation’s first lower house seat after Coalition vote collapses and Angus Taylor says Liberals will take ‘hard lessons’ from result

Pauline Hanson says One Nation is coming after Coalition and Labor seats around Australia, declaring her supporters want to “take the country back” after winning an emphatic victory in Saturday’s Farrer byelection.

The rightwing populist party won its first ever lower house seat at an election, with candidate David Farley easily seeing off the independent Michelle Milthorpe, amid a collapsing Coalition vote in the seat previously held by the former opposition leader Sussan Ley.

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© Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

© Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

© Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

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