One Nation Heals the Gender Divide

One of the big stories in political trends in the West in recent years is the growing divide between male and female voters. While anecdotal exceptions will always exist to prove the rule, the general trend is that women have skewed further to the left as men have skewed further to the right. Suddenly, though, One Nation is not just breaking the two-party system, it’s busting the political gender divide. It is also, if not breaking, at least reversing the trend of the political age divide.

Naturally, it’s sending the uniparty’s camp-followers, the legacy media, into a panic and none more so than the normiecon CINOs.

But first, the conclusions of the left-leaning pollster Resolve, with an analysis of a year’s worth of polling by the Resolve Political Monitor.

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation now has more women supporters than men, according to an analysis of a year’s worth of polling by the Resolve Political Monitor, while the number of young people, well-off and people living in the inner city who support the party has surged in the last year.

Analysis of a year of data from the Resolve poll, conducted for this masthead, shows One Nation has significantly expanded its reach and appeal across all demographics, ages, income and education levels.

Most polls also agree that One Nation is now the second-running political party, in Australia. Possibly the leader. They’ve left the coalition to eat their dust, and are either, depending on the poll, either nipping at the heels of, or just drawing ahead of Labor.

These are significant, possibly fault-line level, shifts.

A year ago, in the immediate wake of the last election, just seven per cent of men and six per cent of women said they’d vote One Nation. This has now surged to 22 per cent of men, with women leading the charge, at 24 per cent.

The turnaround in the youngest demographic is even more startling. While 18–34- year-olds still lean left, the degree of the tilt is fast correcting: support for One Nation amongst Zoomers has quadrupled in just a year, now sitting at 15 per cent. Their older cousins, the Millennials, are backing One Nation at 22 per cent. One in three Gen Xers now surf the Orange Wave. They haven’t just deserted the coalition, either: they’ve abandoned both major parties by almost equal amounts – an eight per cent switch from Labor and 11 per cent from the coalition.

Even more astonishing turnarounds have occurred across the rural-city and educational divides. Support for One Nation in the inner cities has surged from just two per cent to a respectable 18 per cent. This is fast catching up to the 24 per cent support in the suburbs, and 25–27 per cent in rural and regional Australia. Support among the degree-holding class has surged by roughly the same amount as the inner-cities. Twenty-eight per cent of tradies and 22 per cent of the unemployed now back the party.

Resolve pollster Jim Reed said One Nation had started out taking votes from the coalition in regional and rural areas last year, “but we quickly started to notice their gains spread to the suburbs and Labor’s base. This is not just a right-wing, conservative fragmentation, but a wave of change”.

“They still do best among older, lower-income voting groups who aren’t voting Greens or teals, but the bigger picture is the relative homogeneity of One Nation’s gains. They appeal equally across the states, among men and women, and it’s now winning them seats at elections and byelections.”

And it’s driving the legacy media into full panic mode. Especially the normiecons. The same ‘moderate’ yapping mutts in conservative clothing who sneered into their snifters at the Bad Orange Man and spitting up the last dregs of their Cognac at the Bad Orange Woman. This Jeremiad from the Australian ’s Paul Kelly is almost hilarious in its cluelessness.

Hanson would be far worse than Albanese. She would threaten every aspect of this country, from its prosperity to its cohesion, leading a party that has built nothing and shows no capacity to exercise executive power.

Leaving aside that he’s been grumbling the same sour-grapes bullshit about Donald Trump since 2016, is he really serious? Looking around at what Kelly’s beloved uniparty has ‘built’ and the state of the ‘cohesion’ they’ve created, is he really bloody serious?

Even the thought of a power-sharing agreement between One Nation and the sad remnants of the Liberals has him clutching his pearls like a maiden aunt.

This is the surrender pact to Hanson; it accepts the Liberals are a subservient party, and it makes preference deals counter-productive since once Liberal candidates on a lower primary vote are eliminated, their preferences elect One Nation MPs, thereby cutting the throats of the Liberal Party. Can you imagine a more ignominious fate for the Liberals – deciding the only way they could defeat Labor would be as Hanson’s junior partner?

There are a few more ignominious fates I could imagine, but few that would be such a well-deserved belly-laugh. Kelly and Co have spent years greasing the poles of the ‘moderates’. They can reap what they’ve sowed, while the rest of us point at them and laugh.

As if to prove how full of it he really is, Kelly concludes with this clanger:

It is past time to terminate Hanson’s free ride as a celebrity.

I’m not sure what Kelly thinks was the “free ride” Hanson has supposedly enjoyed for the last 30 years. Was it the endless attack jobs from both left and right? The pissing contest, every election, to see which of the major parties could preference her lower? Perhaps Kelly thinks being falsely imprisoned – largely at the behest of the Liberals – was just going easy on her?

The uniparty establishment is afraid. Good.

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