One Nation support continues slide, new poll shows

Support for One Nation has fallen for a second straight week, while Labor maintains a lead that would hand it an election victory, a new poll shows.

Backing for One Nation has now dipped by 9 percentage points during the past two weeks after hitting a high of 31.5 percentage points when Pauline Hanson addressed the National Press Club for the first time, according to the Roy Morgan survey.

During her inaugural address to the club, she sparked controversy by calling for Australia to become “monocultural”, which she said meant “[living] under the one cultural umbrella”.

She is currently in London to meet Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and to attend conservative political conference CPAC.

Hanson’s remarks were condemned by politicians and cultural and sporting figures, including iconic comedian Paul Hogan.

Hanson and her party have shot to the top of several opinion surveys in recent weeks, and recently won their first federal seat in parliament in Farrer

But results of the new polling, conducted from June 29 to July 5, and released today show Hanson’s comments about multiculturalism are losing votes for One Nation.

During the  past two weeks, support for the populist party has dropped by at least 10 percentage points in capital cities, and the three largest states of NSW, Victoria, and Queensland.

If a federal election was held today, Labor would win a clear majority against either One Nation or the Coalition, the research shows.

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The main political combatants in many federal seats would be One Nation and Labor, and after preferences, Labor would emerge the victor by 56 percentage points to 44 percentage points.

In contrast, the Liberal Party and its leader Angus Taylor look stuck in the doldrums of federal politics, attracting an unchanged 19 percentage points.

Polling has shown he’s failed to make up any ground on One Nation, a party he declared was a “one-person show” when speaking with Today on Monday.

“The reality is they are a one-person show, but we also recognise that there are a lot of reasons why people are angry right now,” Taylor said.

“We have an economy that’s heading in the wrong direction, we’ve had the biggest hit to our standard of living of any developed country, we saw what we saw back at Bondi late last year... this country is heading in the wrong direction, people are angry and they are grieving for an Australia they want to see and are not seeing... we absolutely recognise that.”