One Nation surges in polls

In the federal Resolve and Morgan polls, Labor has lost support to the Greens and others, although YouGov has Labor’s vote up one point.

One Nation is ahead of the Coalition in all three polls, and it appears the switch in Liberal leadership from Sussan Ley to Angus Taylor has had no lasting impact.

The total vote for the Coalition and One Nation combined was at 45 to 46 per cent in these polls, and it appears to have stalled at this level. Labor would win an election comfortably on current polls.

A national Resolve poll for Nine newspapers, conducted from March 9 to 14 from a sample of 1803, gave Labor 29 per cent of the primary vote (down three since the February Resolve poll), One Nation 24 per cent (up one), the Coalition 22 per cent (down one), the Greens 12 per cent (up one), independents eight per cent (up one) and others five per cent (steady).

Nationals leader Matt Canavan has vowed to take the fight to Pauline Hanson's ascendant One Nation with a “hyper-Australia” agenda of barbecues, larrikinism and fossil fuels.

Senator Canavan was a key player in the coalition’s decision to dump its net-zero emissions by 2050 target and is a major supporter of coal production, prioritising driving down energy prices over climate action.

In his first media conference as leader, the conservative senator outlined a nationalistic approach to policy.

“We need to go hyper-Australia for our country,” he told reporters in the Nationals party room in Canberra.

“We need more Australian babies. We need more Australian humour, more Australian jokes. We need more Australian barbecues, sometimes often fuelled by fossil fuels. We need more Australian everything.”

Asked about the difference between the Nationals under his leadership and One Nation, Senator Canavan accused Senator Hanson of peddling divisive politics and said her party was not a “grassroots” organisation like his.

“I struggle to point to a single dam, single road, single hospital that Pauline has delivered in Australia,” he said.

Former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce, who defected to One Nation in late 2025, disputed Senator Canavan’s claims but said he relished the political debate.

“It’s like now running on for a serious game of football. I’m really looking forward to it,” he told reporters in Canberra.

– with AAP