Hanson has no solutions, but she’s winning over younger Australians with one simple truth

May 25, 2026 — 3:30pm

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Pauline Hanson says One Nation is rising because the main parties have “lied” to voters. RedBridge polling, published in the Australian Financial Review, demonstrates that younger Australians – Millennials and Gen Zs, now the largest voting cohort in the country – increasingly agree. This is because neither main party is offering the economic reform required, or is honest enough to tell young voters that it is about to get worse. Neither is prepared to admit that the past 15 years were the warning shot, not the wound. Until one of them does, votes will keep bleeding to One Nation – and the two main parties will have earned it.

Younger Australians know that the economy is failing them – and that reality is no longer being contested. The Productivity Commission documented a “lost decade” of income growth: between 2008 and 2018, real wages for 25- to 34-year-olds went backwards while those over 35 kept growing. Per Capita estimates that this cohort was collectively denied more than $60 billion a year in wages over the decade to 2022. COVID hit the same cohort hardest, stalling........

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