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View from The Hill: Would Pauline Hanson really risk a tilt at the lower house?

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05.05.2026

As high poll numbers are increasingly emboldening One Nation, Pauline Hanson now says she might seek to move to the House of Representatives.

Her adviser James Ashby first floated the idea on Sky News on Monday, saying he would “throw a new one into the mix”.

“Pauline Hanson might step down from the Senate […] and run for the seat that she lives in,” he said.

On Tuesday Hanson confirmed a lower house tilt was a possibility, saying, “It’s under consideration; no decisions have been made.

"We’re still two years outside the election.”

The speculation around Hanson follows One Nation’s Barnaby Joyce repeating in recent days that he might stand for the party in his present seat of New England, rather than run for the Senate at the next election, which........

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