SMH · Parnell Palme McGuinness · Sunday 7 June 2026
Women are drifting to One Nation from both Labor and the Coalition, and the major parties are treating the exodus as a surprise rather than a verdict.
Both sides treated women like a captive market — a childcare announcement here, a netball-club photo op there, the whole thing run off a focus group. Hanson's hoovering up the ones who worked out nobody was actually listening. The parties will blame the women. Bismarck handed the workers pensions to stop them defecting; this mob's polled women for a decade and never once read the answer.