Back to back Barries: One Nation’s Trump-sized achilles heel
5/8/202632 min
Barrie Cassidy and Tony Barry dive into new Redbridge polling that shows Pauline Hanson’s support of Donald Trump’s war on Iran could turn voters off. They also discuss the upcoming federal budget, the returning IS-linked families and listener feedback on last week’s gas tax debate
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First 90 secondsBarrie Cassidy· Host0:00
[gentle music] This is The Guardian. [upbeat music] I'm Barry Cassidy.
Tony Barry· Co-host0:11
And I'm Tony Barry.
Barrie Cassidy· Host0:12
Welcome to Back to Back Barry's, a podcast from Guardian Australia. Well, if the Farrer by-election wasn't really happening, we'd have to invent it, because right on cue, it's going to give us such a useful insight into precisely how this political earthquake in Australia is playing out in real time. Now, Susan Lee, the Liberal leader, loses her leadership. She quits and suddenly exposes her own party to a new political reality because if the polls stand up, One Nation and an independent will finish first and second, with the coalition parties well behind them. Expectations have grown, though, Tony, over the last couple of weeks that One Nation will win it. Um, but you've-- Redbridge has got some polling that shows that they're not without their problems.
Tony Barry· Co-host0:55
Yeah, we've done a national sample, not in Farrer, but obviously Farrer is, is a perfect storm for One Nation. You know, uh, and electorate Aubrey, uh, has obviously very much urban characteristics. And as we've discussed before, the independent candidate last time, uh, won a lot of those booths or Labor. Uh, Liberal Party did not win a single booth there, but then it's got your, your true rural, regional, um, part of it as well. So you would expect One Nation to over-perform relative to the national sample. But in the last national sample we did publish this week in the Fin Review, Labor was still in thirty-one. They