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Newspoll has right‑wing parties rebounding from a slump three weeks ago

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20.07.2026

Three weeks ago, the Newspoll taken in the week after Pauline Hanson’s June 17 National Press Club address had the combined vote for One Nation and the Coalition down three points and the combined vote for Labor and the Greens up five points.

This Newspoll virtually reverses the movement three weeks ago, with the combined right vote up three points to 49% and the combined left vote down four points to 42%.

Three of the four other polls published in the last week validate Newspoll, with only the YouGov poll below contradicting it (right vote down one point to 46% in YouGov).

While there was a slump in the right vote after Hanson’s address, this slump was short-lived, and the right vote has rebounded quickly to where it was before this address.

Meanwhile, Andy Burnham will replace Keir Starmer as UK prime minister today, after he was elected Labour leader unopposed.

A national Newspoll, conducted July 13–16 from a sample of 1,238, gave Labor 30% of the primary vote (down three since the previous Newspoll, three weeks ago), One Nation 30% (up one), the Coalition 19% (up two), the Greens 12% (down one) and all Others 9% (up one).

No two-party estimate was provided, but there........

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