Murray Olds: Australia correspondent on Pauline Hanson and latest polls

Far-right political party One Nation, led by Pauline Hanson, has surpassed Labor and the Coalition in Queensland in the latest poll. 

"Once upon a time, Pauline Hanson was the fringe lunatic way out on the lunar right, and now, in South Australia, she smashed the conservative vote down there," Australian correspondent Murray Olds said.

Olds chats to Andrew Dickens about One Nation's unprecedented rise, and solutions to the fuel crisis.

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Speaker 1 (00:09):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Murray Olds has been found. Good morning to you, Murray.
It's thirteen to seven.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah, Marie Easterns when they say these days, good morning
to you to go.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
How's things well, first of all, no one, of course.
We actually the one person called me dicko and that
was the man Butcher. I'll let you do it as well, so.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
Goodness sake, I'm a great company.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Indeed, okay, let's talk about Pauline Hanson. She just refuses
to go away. In fact, she's getting better and better
in the polls.

Speaker 3 (00:43):
Certainly is That's exactly right, Andrew the latest poll from
the Murdock Organization over here, the News poll. Her party
not only eating into the coalition right, the conservative side
of Australian politics over here at the Liberal Party and
the National Party. They are a federal coalition also at
state level. But Pauline Hanson's eating their lunch. And she

(01:06):
started now on labor. Once upon a time, Pauline Hansen
was the fringe lunatic way out on the lunar right,
and now she's in South Australia. She smashed the Conservative
vote down there. She got four seats in the Lower House,
two seats in the Upper House and the latest News
poll has found young voters women out of suburban seats

(01:29):
as well, falling in behind this redheaded disruptor from Queensland.
She's huge in Queenslan. We know one nation belt at
them in South Australia, right, but Labour has been sliding
since Christmas. This is Anthony Albernezi, the Prime Minister, ninety
four seats in the one hundred and fifty seat parliament.
He's riding high. But how bad is labourmen sliding? Well?

(01:52):
Very bad. One nation's primary vote now in Queensland thirty
percent Labor twenty seven, the Liberal Party twenty three, and
it's heading south. In New South Wales and Victoria, Labour's
primary voters has collapsed, falling in for Labor. In New
South Wales that's Anthony Albanezi's home state, thirty seven to

(02:13):
thirty one percent, down three points. In Victoria, the thirty
two percent one nation in New South Wales has nearly
doubled its support to twenty seven percent, twenty one down
the Victoria and it's it's look, it is quite staggering.
The conservative side of Politicus doesn't have a clue what
to do. They got rid of Susan Lee, who for

(02:34):
twenty five years was the Liberal member for the seat
of Farrer in southern New South Wales. The seat's just
about as big as bloody Belgium. Now what happened by
dumped her. She was the leader of the Liberal Party.
They flicked her put in the Zanga's Taylor broken a
suit And you just watched Pauline Hanson is going to
go in there and smoke them again in this federal

(02:55):
in the federal by election that's coming up.

Speaker 2 (02:57):
It's a simple and a sure message. And this is
happening all over the world for raj and reform. In
the UK here with some Peters, he keeps on going up.
They're doing very similar things. Simple patriotic messages.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
That's right, you know, But I mean, look, for many
people on the left, Hanson's messages are dreadful. You know,
I hate immigration, I hate renewable energy. Well, everyone on
the left loves renewable and everyone on the left recognizes
how important migrants are to the Australian story. Not Hanson.
A lot of people are absolutely buying her message and

(03:32):
it's exactly what's.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Happening now on renewable energy. Of course, we've got a
fuel crisis and now we've got a dobbin program for
New South Wales motors.

Speaker 3 (03:43):
That's what it's been dubbed. I mean, I'm sure the
people who came up with this wonderful idea aren't saying, oh,
you've got a doublement, but they that's what's happening because
New South Wales motorists are being asked to report service
stations that are hiking up their petrol and diesel prices,
you know, to unconstinable levels. There's a government compliance splits

(04:04):
out there amid shortages of course, that are caused by
what's happening in Iran. Now. Last week we were not
aware of this at the time, but there's an Office
of Fair Trading in New South Wales and Fair Trading
offices were out inspecting eighteen hundred service stations over the
last week. In New South Wales there are twenty four hundred,

(04:25):
so they went and checked on eighteen hundred of these
service stations checking on prices. Only one hundred were caught
checking up the pump price, which I suppose in the
big scheme of things, it's a smaller number than you
might expect, but it's a pretty easy way to check
because there's a thing called fuel Check. It's a tool

(04:46):
that tracks petrol prices in real time across all of
the state. As of Sunday in New South Wales, just
over forty stations completely out of gas, two hundred and
fifty five out of one type of fuel, one hundred
and forty five out of diesel and or premium diesel.
And that's what this Stralia runs on, as you know,
as I say, two hundred and four and four hundred

(05:09):
stations in New South Wales. But the government's assuring everybody
here was the federal government, you know, there's help on
the way. They've done a deal with Japan. Japan buys
a heck of a lot of Australian liquefied national A
natural gas, and a lot of fuel that Australia imports
comes from Japan, comes from Korea, Malaysia and Singapore as well,

(05:29):
all of which buy Australia's energy. So they've done some
sort of deal at government level to make sure that
as long as oil keeps arriving in those refineries in Asia,
Australia will get its fair share.

Speaker 2 (05:41):
Well, good luck to you married. We're in exactly the
same situation and I thank you for your turn. Let's
marry Olds out of Australia.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
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