For those Australians thinking of voting One Nation, Pauline Hanson is their wrecking ball and truth teller.

One of the big conversation points among the political and media class is whether One Nation’s primary vote will run up against some form of a ceiling.

This week’s Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll published in the Australian Financial Review shows the ceiling keeps rising, with One Nation’s primary vote now punching through 30%. With Labor’s vote crashing three points to 28% and Coalition down another two points to 20%, One Nation now leads all parties on a primary vote basis, an unprecedented event in Australian politics. Another first in this poll is that a majority of Australians say they would not vote for Labor or the Coalition.

Assessments of the budget were broadly negative, with respondents believing it will be both bad for the country and for them personally.

But what will be concerning Labor strategists is that only around a quarter of the generation Z cohort – one of the claimed targets of their efforts to tackle intergenerational inequality – say the budget will be good for the country, while 36% say it will be bad or very bad. Similarly, only 28% of millennials say the budget will be very good or good for the country.

Gen X voters had the most negative........

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