One Nation wins WA by-election, prompts bipartisan alarm in Australia
Labor ran a former federal staffer who left politics to join Woodside's government relations team back in WA. One Nation is similarly pro-fossil fuel. Woodside, essentially, has covered all bases here.
Royce Kurmelovs81I'm sure this outcome will be read a hundred different ways, but it is another reminder that when centre-left parties punch left and pander right, they lose. Voters can see the party doesn't have any principles, and if the trajectory is rightward, they might as well vote for the real deal.
Overlizard2It’s one giant Uniparty. Only the Greens is NOT in the Uniparty.
Grumps1Management services are running them now same as education and policing. You can make recidivists of all criminals, managers, politicians and turn people conservative. Just by wedging criminality. Then come in offer consultancy and a service. The invitation to be part of team, reward and protection.
It's ONE seat in the equivalent of bum-fk Alabama, but One Nation egos will be out of control, convinced this means they're going to rule the universe next. The next year and a half is going to be nasty. 🙄 #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
Alison Jones5True, I wonder how long this elected PHON MP will hang around before they defect.
Nich Hills3PHON are going to see Secret Harbour as the latest in a string of victories: New England, Farrer, South Australia. Agree their egos will be out of control.
George Hirst3And the Labor candidate was a friggin Woodside lobbyist!
troutish2How before they quit the party?
Jayjaybee#521We underestimate the appeal of ON to a large chunk of the Australian electorate at our peril.
Time to ask One Nation dabblers. What happens to electricity prices if Australia abandons renewables? What happens with weaker gun laws? Slashing migrant workers during a labour shortage? There are unintended consequences of blowing the place up. #auspol www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
tim365.bsky.social5Time to ask a serious question- applies to all media and all parties. The Fourth Estate are abrogating their responsibilities. The #publicinterest is the loser. Can journalists please just do your job! Here’s a question- “So how might that work?” Give it a try! #auspol
Leono1Germany invested a trillion $ in renewables and have the highest energy prices in Europe.
Rocket Sago1Jim, the consequences are NOT unintended - the voters and the party are ignorant about what happens next week let alone next year, next decade.
Rob Hobson1Spot on Jim, there are indeed consequences for blowing the place up.
Twang 🍉1The Labor / Liberal Uniparty caused this crisis by looking after their corporate mates and ignoring the best interests of the people. Unfortunately that sends the politically uneducated into the arms of populists like Hanson. We need to reject all of the above and vote for someone else.
Blame One Nation's win on Labor. Labor, you're not going to win by being right wing & racist like One Nation. Labor, you're not going to win by running a candidate who is a gas lobbyist from Woodside. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08... #auspol
Nate Cochrane2Labor hasn’t been the Progresive voice since Kerr sacked Whitlam.
Valentenya the climate policy strategy cat 🍉 🐈⬛1People in WA love the gas industry don't they? Even Kate Chaney loves the gas industry. She supported Woodside's NW Shelf extension and Burrup Hub redevelopment "as long as the approval requirements are met". What am I missing?
Random Sarah21How people saw the shitstorm that is America and thought "we want that too" will never not astound me. 🤦🏼♀️ #auspol
Sharty Mcscrote (Sandy D AU) 🍉🍉6Has anyone seen Albo and Pauline in the same room? #OrangeWigAndRestingCatsBum #WhoCouldTell #LiterallyAllTheSameSideOfAPooCoveredCoin #auspol
Colour me shocked but I'd have thought they'd have considered that prior to the by-election & run a candidate that was of the calibre of Papalia, not a former Woodside employee. WA Premier Roger Cook promised Labor would listen to the result, "a reminder that Western Australians are doing it tough"
Parachuting in a would-be career politician into a "safe" Labor seat was always going to be seen for what it was. WA Labor's now basically indistinguishable from the Libs - both are shills for mining - so people are looking for something different. The problem is, in this case, it's One Nation.
JeffJL6Worse than that. She was literally a Woodside lobbyist prior.
Kathy3Parliamentary Labor needs to listen - and respond- to the views and needs of their members. Loyalists have had enough!
unionrabble.bsky.social2Labor were parachuting an oil & gas lobbyist into what was a safe seat for them. O&G lobbyists are on the nose & deserve to be defeated. Unfortunately in this case a party owned by O&G companies
One Nation wins its first lower house seat in WA: Secret Harbour, which takes in Labor bastions Rockingham/North Mandurah. < t.co/fd6J5FGbOq > This follows ON inroads in battler suburbs north of Adelaide at the SA election in March. 🚨Fair warning, Labor. Look after your own🚨 #auspol
billyon2wheels.bsky.social3Labor are the party of the Oligarchs and Corporations. Labor has been drifting away from their socialist roots since Hawke. Party politics is not democracy.
mynameisdieter 🍉2Both Labor and LNP have brought us here, we will not forget
RUOK Speedwagon2The "battlers" are going to find out what battling really is if they get us a One Nation government.
Ben (up north) 🇦🇺1They are looking after their own - corporations and billionaires. #F*ckTheDuopoly #F*ckOneNation #VoteGreen #Auspol
My brain did a triple somersault with pike, hearing voters arriving to vote at the Secret Harbour, By-election polling station, responding to reporters Qs, “I’m voting one nation, bc I believe it cares for battlers!” FFS! A leader that has at every opportunity voted against bills to help battlers 🙄.
murranji.bsky.social2Labor has spent the last decades embracing liberalism. Their language is all liberal Liberalism tells people the fall of the material conditions is because of their own efforts. So when they try hard and things get worse they search for alternative explanations. One Nation offers a systemic answer
SSVDH Au1ALP had better start reading the room . A woodside lobbyist ????? what were they thinking ?????
