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Matty Johns has come out against the Broncos decision to rename a conference room that was initially named after Gorden Tallis Matty said “I disagree with Gorden sometimes. That’s fine because we’re mates, what they've done makes the Broncos look pretty petty and pretty small.”

BREAKING: Islamists in Sydney screamed “ISIS STILL LIVES” while bashing and torturing a young gay Australian man on camera. Multi-culturalism.

Where One Nation is actually growing When One Nation polls at 25% or above nationally, that number isn’t distributed evenly. It never is. National averages flatten the geography out of politics and geography is where this story lives. If the average is mid-twenties, that means One Nation is pushing into the mid-thirties and beyond in a swathe of regional seats. Not everywhere. Not in the cities. But in the places where it matters for them, provincial and outer regional Australia. That’s worth sitting with for a moment. A party that didn’t exist thirty years ago is now competitive with the primary vote of the major parties in parts of the country where the Nationals and to a lesser extent the Liberal Party, once won seats without breaking a sweat. One Nation’s support is being fed from three directions: former Coalition voters moving right, serial minor party voters consolidating behind a single banner, and on the margins, Labor voters in regional seats where Labor is no longer competitive. Each channel works differently but they’re all flowing to the same place. There’s a temptation to treat One Nation’s growth as a simple story of right-wing radicalisation. It isn’t. A large share of the voters powering this aren’t ideological converts. They’re serial minor party voters, people who have bounced between One Nation, Palmer, Indis, and whoever else was available. They don’t vote ‘for’ minor parties so much as they vote ‘against’ major ones. The party name on the ballot matters less than the message it sends…..not you. One Nation has suddenly become the most durable vehicle for that sentiment. Where other minor parties have surged and faded, Hanson’s outfit has consolidated the protest vote into something more permanent (possibly). Then there’s the less obvious dynamic. On the margins, One Nation is also picking up a fraction of the Labor vote, but not where Labor is competitive. This is happening in regional seats Labor doesn’t hold and in many cases hasn’t held for a long time. These are communities where people might carry a cultural memory of Labor, but where the modern Labor Party feels distant, urban, professional, removed. In those seats, a handful of points moving from Labor to One Nation doesn’t hurt Labor. Labor wasn’t winning anyway. But it does change the shape of the contest. It super charges One Nation’s vote, and makes the seat a genuine contest versus the Coalition. Labor losing votes to One Nation in National and Liberal Party regional seats is bad news for the Coalition. I would not rule out these Labor voters tactically voting to oust the incumbent Coalition MP either.

The Prime Minister said “we could not protect,” not “we did not protect.” One avoids responsibility; the other accepts it. Only one is an actual apology.

We’re getting dangerous guns off our streets with a national buyback.