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According to some recent national opinion polls, One Nation is now the most popular political party at the federal level.
Drilling down a little further into the party’s appeal, One Nation appears particularly strong in rural and regional electorates, with the South Australian state election and the federal by-election in Farrer providing recent evidence to support that view.
So if One Nation is increasingly influential in rural and regional Australia, what influence will rural and regional areas in turn exert on the country as a whole?
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.