Barnaby Joyce, One Nation looking ahead after historic win

Hanson said the result ‘vindicated’ her side and proved it was not a flash in the pan but offered hope for Australians.

“I stuck to my guns, what I believed in,” she told 2GB Radio in Sydney.

‘I felt like the country was in a complete mess and that the major political parties were not responding to the needs and concerns of the Australian people.

“I just feel like there was no future for our future generations. And a lot of young people came to me and other people, whether it was small businesses, industries, manufacturing, the agricultural sector or just ordinary Australians saying they had no hope for the future.”

She took aim at Liberal leader Angus Taylor, who claimed a rising One Nation vote would only keep Labor in power.

“They’re so arrogant, and Angus Taylor is so arrogant with their attitude like it’s just a two-party system in Australia,” she said.

“He’s trying to justify the whole thing… why you should just stick with the two major political parties. He’s not going back… he needs to take a good hard look in the mirror as to why it’s happening this way, because they haven’t delivered anything for the Australian people.”

She declined to confirm whether she would like to use the increase in One Nation support to win her own place in the House of Representatives at the 2028 election (Hanson is a senator in the House of Lords), but she admitted that with the party’s changing fortunes, anything could happen for her and MP Barnaby Joyce.

”When Barnaby met, he indicated that he would like to run for the Senate. But the way things are going now, as I told Barnaby, ‘Your position might be better in the lower house.’ And that is something that I also think about,” she said.

Joyce reveals the next One Nation target

Joyce said Farrer’s victory had encouraged One Nation to target urban seats in parts of Sydney with the aim of forming a government.

“I’ll tell you what, I’ve met some people from the western suburbs of Sydney who are quite happy that One Nation is moving,” he said. Today.

“This is not an issue about regional Australia, this is about [all of] Australia.”

He said recent results in Farrer and at the South Australian state election had removed previous tags about the party, and One Nation was aiming to win power rather than “maintain the status quo”.

“I don’t think people see One Nation as racist; they see them as tough,” he said.

“People say Labor is so strong in the western suburbs. Labor didn’t even turn up at the Farrer by-election, that’s how strong they are.”

He also rejected the idea that the route back to power for the conservative side of politics was to regain seats in the inner city.

“[People say] ‘You have to win back blue-green seats’; No, you don’t, you have to take care of the people in the regional areas and the western suburbs of the major capitals,” he claimed.

Some commentators have suggested that the Liberal Party and One Nation could come together to form a coalition government that could challenge Labor, an idea rejected by Liberal MP Tim Wilson yesterday.

However, Joyce insisted this was off the table, saying he preferred to pursue “policy outcomes” rather than ministries.

“We don’t want your ministries, keep your ministries and your salaries. You have all the prizes, but you will deliver policy results because we will not be limited by the cabinet solidarity that has hit the Australian people,” he said.

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