- Support for One Nation drops after Press Club address
- Barnaby Joyce played down latest poll
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Pauline Hanson and One Nation’s popularity have slipped since her controversial Press Club speech with support shifting to the Coalition, according to new polling.
Primary support for One Nation fell by three points in July to 26 per cent, while the Coalition’s backing rose to 23 per cent, in a Resolve Political Monitor survey released on Sunday night.
Labor remained at 28 per cent, and support for the Greens was also unchanged at 12 per cent.
In the poll of 2,252 people, conducted between July 6 and 11 for Nine newspapers, support for Pauline Hanson as preferred prime minister dropped by eight points from 33 per cent in June to 25 per cent.
Anthony Albanese made a comeback as preferred prime minister with 33 per cent nominating him, up from 29 per cent in June, with Angus Taylor sitting on 21 per cent, two points higher than previously.
The survey comes two weeks after Newspoll and Redbridge surveys also showed Senator Hanson’s popularity had taken a tumble since her much-discussed National Press Club speech.
Key demographic groups who have shifted away from Hanson in recent weeks include people born overseas, people aged between 18 and 34, and those in full employment.
‘The two largest losses for [Hanson] are among immigrants and females, and suggest her comments in areas like multiculturalism and abortion have shown One Nation to be the party of old after all. Mutton dressed as mutton, in policy terms,’ Resolve pollster Jim Reed told Nine Newspapers.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson’s popularity as preferred prime minister dropped by eight points from 33 per cent in June to 25 per cent.

A third of voters listed Anthony Albanese (pictured on Sunday) as preferred prime minister
‘All are signs the varnish has come off a little.’
Before the controversial address, the One Nation leader had overtaken Mr Albanese as preferred prime minister in a June Resolve poll that had Senator Hanson at 33 per cent over the prime minister’s 29 per cent.
Senator Hanson suggested Australia should reject what she described as a failed policy of multiculturalism and instead become a ‘monoculture’ during the speech on June 17.
She also said employees should not be paid to take time off work, even if on maternity leave, which she later argued had been taken out of context.
One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce has since played down the poll.
‘The polls are an indicator that they’re not a vote, and you always expect there to be fluctuations in polls as you go through a process,’ he told Sunrise on Monday.
‘I think what this indicates is that Pauline Hanson is direct. She doesn’t try and gild the lily.’
‘She’s straight down the barrel with what she says.’
Joyce’s does not believe Hanson’s recent comments have affected her popularity.

One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce (pictured with Pauline Hanson) played down the party’s popularity drop in the latest poll
‘I think that people understand that one of the big things about One Nation, and one of the big things about Pauline is social cohesion and making sure that the issues, especially what we saw tragically at Bondi (the terrorist attack), are not repeated,’ he said.
‘It requires a substantive statement and you’ve got to be brave enough to make it.
‘If you don’t want to make it, then I suppose you accept that it’ll happen again and again and again.’
It comes after Joyce defended One Nation’s uncosted policies, saying it did not have adequate resources for independent costing.
‘I’m not going to give a sort of guarantee like that, because that means I have the resources to do it,’ he told Sky News on Sunday.
‘If I get the promise that we’re going to have the resources to do it, it certainly makes it a lot easier.’


