Waking up in One Nation country: Farrer hands Hanson the keys the Liberals left under the mat

Guardian Australia · Sarah Basford Canales · Sunday 10 May 2026

Waking up in One Nation country: Farrer hands Hanson the keys the Liberals left under the mat

Pauline Hanson's One Nation has won its first ever lower-house seat in the rural NSW electorate of Farrer, with Coalition MP Colin Boyce now publicly mulling a defection.

Hanson's spent thirty years in the Senate yelling through the keyhole, and Farrer's finally let her in the front door. The Liberals didn't lose this seat — they vacated it, packed up the broad church, and left the keys under the mat. Menzies built a tent big enough for graziers and shopkeepers. This mob couldn't keep a fruit-picker.

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