From ‘please explain’ to a prison spell, what next for the One Nation wave?

After walking ‘slap bang’ into Hanson and Bernardi on the steps of SA parliament, Smithson says the Pauline show is set to roll on relentlessly.

You can sense the winds of significant political change are blowing through all levels of politics.

No more so than in New South Wales but also all the way here to the steps of parliament in the past week.

Voters overwhelmed the weekend’s Farrer by-election across the border with a resounding call to arms for One Nation.

It’s starting to have a very familiar ring after the recent SA election where One Nation gained an impressive seven seats across both chambers.

Now, David Farley will stride into the Canberra halls of power as the newly elected member for Farrer having gained an extraordinary 57.3 per cent of the two-party vote defeating independent Michelle Milthorpe who achieved 42.7 percent.

It had been a Liberal held seat since 1949 until party leader Sussan Ley was unceremoniously dumped in favour of Angas Taylor.

Now that blue ribbon stronghold has left a combined Liberal and National vote wallowing at just 22 per cent of the vote.

I’ve been astounded at the momentum One Nation and Pauline Hanson can effortlessly generate in just the blink of an eye.

She even continues to fly high with Australia’s richest tycoon, billionaire Gina Rinehart, who gifted her a $1.5 million private plane to cover our vast land.

I dutifully attended the first sitting day of state parliament last Tuesday, arriving early to get organised for a busy day of ceremony and........

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