Polls, the media and what's really driving One Nation’s support
6/11/202624 min
Inside Politics host Jacqueline Maley and chief political correspondent Paul Sakkal debate whether the media and the near-daily reporting on polls are driving more support or exaggerating Pauline Hanson’s true popularity in Australia.
Outside of this, the hard-right party purportedly raised $1.5 million in a single day via a crowd-funding campaign called Fire the Liar. And the Coalition is squabbling over whether to preference One Nation in the next federal election, which is still two years away.
In the meantime, Labor by way of Foreign Minister Penny Wong says in the face of chaos, the government wants to go back to basics and focus on health, education and all the policies it says the other parties are lacking in.
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First 90 secondsJacqueline Maley· Host0:00
[gentle music] I'm Jacqueline Maley, and you're listening to Inside Politics from The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald. A very big Sydney hello to our chief political correspondent, Paul Sekul, who's joining us from the Canberra studio, as usual.
Paul Sakkal· Panelist0:15
Morning, Jac. How are you?
Jacqueline Maley· Host0:16
I'm very well, thank you. Paul, I just wanna check in briefly on the budget for our listeners. The last time we talked about it, we were in what I called our budget backlash era, and now we've moved to some sort of other era, I think, which is, like, begrudge resignation or, I don't know, budget fatigue. But you had a story this week about some changes that the Treasurer Jim Chalmers might make to the cutting back of the capital gains tax concessions that they announced in the budget. Tell us what the government is thinking about doing.
Paul Sakkal· Panelist0:44
Yeah, you're right, we definitely have moved into a new phase. The media cycle's moved on a bit from the budget. There is still stories every day in various papers about different groups who are complaining about various elements of the budget, be it the trust element, how it might affect charities, how it might affect biotech sectors. So the backlash is, is real and will continue, but the focus has gone onto One Nation, which we've been kind of locked into for months now, but we'll, we'll get onto that in a second. Yeah, so the story I had this week, Jac, was around this carve-out that the Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been hinting at for weeks. People will remember on budget night, the government said that they would consult with the startup and tech sector about how this new CGT model might affect businesses with a low cost base, high growth businesses. Uh, this is one of the key