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Dear John,
The 2025 federal election confirmed something we’ve known for
years: when voters understand how to use their preferences,
they can defeat the political machine. Because of that, One
Nation now has two new Senators in the federal
parliament, Tyron Whitten in Western Australia and
Warwick Stacey in New South Wales.
Both victories were won ‘from behind’. Neither Tyron nor Warwick
held a top-six primary vote position, but thanks to strong flows of
preferences from like-minded voters, they overtook better-funded
candidates from the major parties. These were the only two
Senate seats in the country won in this way. In fact its the first
time a Senator has won this way in a state since the 2016
reforms.
That’s not luck, it’s the result of hard work, education, and
voters standing firm on their principles.
This success didn’t come out of nowhere. In 2016, the Senate voting
system changed.
Under the old Group Voting Ticket model, voters lost control of
their preferences, parties did the dealing behind closed doors, and
One Nation was locked out while micro parties were shuffled in to
serve the political elite.
It was only after those micro parties became a nuisance that the
major parties scrapped the system, and in doing so, opened the door to
real representation.
Since then, One Nation has made educating voters a priority. We’ve
always said: put us first, then number every box according to your
values. That message has cut through. At this election, One Nation's
education attempts made the difference.
We also saw how like-minded parties working together
through preference recommendations can help our side of
politics. One Nation placed many such candidates high on our
how-to-vote cards, while always reminding voters that the final
decision is theirs.
Unfortunately, there were cases where other parties chose to
preference Labor or the Greens above us. In those cases we lost, and
the radical left gained.
Let this be a lesson for future elections: if you
share our values, put One Nation first, because that
number one vote matters more than ever.
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Must see: One Nation's new senator from Western
Australia, Tyron Whitten on Paul Murray.
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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation
https://www.onenation.org.au/
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