Australia, Global Sentinel

Labor and the Coalition must force Pauline Hanson to ‘please explain’ her policies if they are to win back voters | Tom McIlroy

Her strongest supporters don’t care that her positions often don’t make sense, but first-time One Nation voters could swing back if the party faced more scrutiny

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Angus Taylor was in Perth on Friday, demonstrating fairly competently why voters are abandoning the Liberals and Nationals for One Nation.

In a week when Newspoll put Pauline Hanson’s party ahead of the Coalition and Labor for the first time, on Friday the opposition leader was unable to name a single seat in electorally sensitive Western Australia.