Support for Hanson’s One Nation slips in latest poll

Pauline Hanson and One Nation’s popularity has fallen as support has shifted to the coalition since her controversial Press Club speech, new polling shows.

Support for One Nation fell three points to 26 percent in July, while support for the coalition rose to 23 percent, according to the Resolve Political Monitor poll released on Sunday night.

Labor remained at 28 per cent and support for the Greens remained unchanged at 12 per cent.

In the poll of 2,252 people conducted for Nine newspaper between 6 and 11 July, support for Pauline Hanson’s election as prime minister fell eight points to 25 per cent from 33 per cent in June.

Anthony Albanese returned as the preferred prime minister, with 33 per cent voting for him, up from 29 per cent in June; Angus Taylor remained at 21 percent, an increase of two points compared to the previous one.

The poll comes two weeks after Newspoll and Redbridge polls showed Senator Hanson’s popularity had fallen since his much-discussed National Press Club speech.

Before the speech, the One Nation leader had overtaken Mr Albanese as the preferred prime minister in the June Resolve poll, where Senator Hanson received 33 per cent of the vote compared to the prime minister’s 29 per cent.

In his speech on 17 June, Senator Hanson suggested that Australia should reject what he called its failed policy of multiculturalism and instead become a “monoculture”.

She also said employees should not be paid to take time off from work, even if they were on maternity leave, and later argued this had been taken out of context.

Earlier on Sunday, One Nation treasury spokesman Barnaby Joyce defended the party’s no-cost policies and said the party did not have sufficient resources for independent costing.