Voters prefer Hanson as PM. Are they prepared for her to run the country?

June 15, 2026 — 5:00am

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Do voters really want Pauline Hanson in charge of Australia’s nuclear submarine fleet? Or negotiating with Xi Jinping and Donald Trump?

According to the latest Resolve Political Monitor, that’s exactly what they want.

A whopping 33 per cent of voters nominated Hanson as their preferred prime minister in this poll, giving her a 4-percentage-point lead over Anthony Albanese, while One Nation has edged ahead of Labor on the primary vote too, leading 29 per cent to 28 per cent.

If the current rise in One Nation’s vote continues over the next two years, the party will not only win a slate of new seats in 2028 – many of them to be occupied, presumably, by people who have never been in parliament before – it will be sitting on the government benches on the eve of the arrival of the nation’s first Virginia-class submarines under the AUKUS agreement.

It doesn’t get more real than that.

Resolve Political Monitor

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© Brisbane Times