Australia’s Populist Hard Right Usurps Main Opposition in Poll

Australia’s populist One Nation party has pulled ahead of the main center-right opposition for the first time, in a sign the fracturing of the conservative vote in developed democracies may now be emerging in Australia.

One Nation recorded 22% in a Newspoll published in The Australian newspaper on Monday, up from 15% in the prior survey and ahead of the Liberal-National Coalition’s record-low 21%. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor party slid to 32% in the poll, which didn’t provide a margin of error.