One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has declared herself ready to take over Anthony Albanese’s job as prime minister of Australia and a new poll shows she has the numbers to back her up.

Hanson would have to leave the Senate and go to the lower house to take on the PM role, but her dedication to making that dream a reality, and to her newfound voters, has been called into question as data emerges revealing her low Senate attendance.

A bombshell poll by Redbridge Group and Accent Research for the Australian Financial Review conducted last week found One Nation has overtaken Labor in the primary vote to be Australia’s most popular political party.

The poll, which surveyed 1,005 voters between May 25 and May 28, found primary support for One Nation had increased four percentage points to 31 per cent compared to April.

Meanwhile, Labor’s primary vote fell three points to 28 per cent in the same period.

The Coalition’s primary vote also dropped, dipping two points to 20 per cent.

One Nation’s lead over Labor on a two-party-preferred basis tightened from 55 per cent to 51 per cent.

But Labor continued to lead over the Coalition on that same figure, with 51 per cent preferring Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party over the Liberals and Nationals.

One Nation beat Labor’s primary vote support in the latest poll by Redbridge Group and Accent Research (pictured is One Nation leader Pauline Hanson)

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s (above) net approval rating plummeted to -19

Hanson recorded the best favourability between herself, Albanese and Coalition leader Angus Taylor.

When their approval and disapproval ratings were added – Hanson scored 0, Albanese -19 and Taylor -4.

Redbridge director Tony Barry believed the continued growth of One Nation’s popularity stemmed from Australian voters’ dissatisfaction with the two major parties off the back of the Federal Budget.

‘The downstream effects of the budget and another interest rate rise is Labor have lost more vote share, but the Coalition aren’t the beneficiaries on a primary vote basis,’ he said.

‘With almost two-thirds of the electorate now saying Australia is heading in the wrong direction, that pervasive negative mood sentiment is fuelling more anti-establishment support and a view among a growing cohort of voters that the answer lies outside established norms and major parties.’

Hanson has been more than willing to take on her newfound popularity and on Sunday told Sky News she’s eyeing Albanese’s job as prime minister.

‘Do I want to be prime minister? Well, I tell you what, I won’t knock the job because I believe that I have the ability to do it,’ she said. 

However, details about her attendance at her current role in Senate has raised questions about how much work she’s actually willing to do in parliament. 

Parliamentary library analysis found Hanson (above) had skipped 88 per cent of Senate estimate hearing days since 2016

Parliamentary library analysis by The Australian found Hanson skipped an astonishing 88 per cent of Senate estimate hearing days since being re-elected in 2016.

In total, she attended at least one Senate estimates hearing on just 28 out of 239 days they were held in the last decade.

The data also showed Hanson skipped entire Senate estimates period, usually lasting a fortnight, 70 per cent of the time. 

Just last week Hanson skipped hearings in Canberra to meet with voters in Queensland’s Coalition-held electorate of Wide Bay.

That trip included time put aside to celebrate her birthday with billionaire Clive Palmer.

Hanson didn’t attend 12 regular parliamentary sitting days since the 2025 election, including the seven days she was suspended for wearing a burka in parliament.

She has attended less than one-third of divisions in the Senate since the election, which are held to vote on procedural motions or legislation.

Labor cabinet minister Murray Watt asked Hanson to explain to ‘hardworking Australians why she doesn’t think she needs to turn up to work while drawing a taxpayer-funded salary of over $200,000 a year’.

Hanson was slammed for choosing public events over her actual job with Labor minister Murray Watt asking Hanson to explain ‘why she doesn’t think she needs to turn up to work’

‘It shows that she would rather be partying with billionaires than fighting for working people,’ he said. 

Liberal MP Garth Hamilton told Hanson to stop focusing on ‘career progression’ and turn her attention to fighting Labor. 

‘One Nation talks about working together but we’re the ones doing all the work,’ he said.

Hanson defended her absences as things she doesn’t ‘need to be there for’, noting the skipped hearings weren’t for ‘legislation that’s going to change the country, it’s all parliamentary procedures and that type of thing’.

‘These bastards, all they are worried about is trying to kick me in the guts to make out that I’m not doing anything,’ Hanson said.

‘It is all politics. That’s why the people are coming to me because they know that I really do care and I do everything in my power to help them.’