One Nation

Status & organisation

The party is registered as “One Nation Victoria”, a name it changed on 3 August 2026. It first registered on 31 May 2018 and re-registered on 7 November 2024, with Pauline Hanson (Qld) as registered officer VEC . Federal leader Pauline Hanson is a Queensland senator. Warren Pickering, the Pakenham candidate, is Victorian state leader and president, and Colleen Harkin is deputy leader. The party holds 1 Council seat, held by Rikkie-Lee Tyrrell in Northern Victoria. She was One Nation’s first Victorian MP, elected in 2022 Election Tracker .

Current position

One Nation is the central disruptor, polling about 22–25% primary. It peaked at 27% in July and 31% in June, and at times in 2026 polled ahead of the Liberals nationally One Nation . It is contesting about 103 candidates: 87 in the lower house, against an intention to run in all 88 with only Northcote unnamed, plus 8 upper-house region leads One Nation . Hanson launched the campaign on 3 October 2026 at Crown with a 63-page booklet, “The Real Deal” ABC . Harkin says: “Labor is our political enemy and the Liberal Party is our political competition… We will work with anybody to remove Labor” ABC .

Policy platform

Law and order is the centrepiece. The party would recruit ADF veterans into the police, use AI to cut administrative work, and lower the age of criminal responsibility to 10. It would charge serious violent youths as adults, make parents liable, run a 24-hour bail court and trial capsicum spray, and it cites UK-style self-defence law.

Beyond law and order

It would scrap the Suburban Rail Loop and redirect the money to Airport Rail and Melton electrification. It would abolish Gellung Warl and the statewide Treaty, and scrap all net-zero targets and subsidies. It would cancel VNI West and the Western Renewables Link, reverse the gas-connection ban and repeal the nuclear ban. On tax, it would wind back land tax, raise the payroll threshold and abolish insurance stamp duty. It promises a back-to-basics curriculum and school vouchers, and an end to renewable subsidies. It would bring back logging and native timber and keep coal at Loy Yang and Yallourn ABCElection TrackerGuardian .

Vulnerabilities

Pickering admitted using ecstasy, methamphetamine and marijuana, and losing his licence three times for drink-driving, in September 2026. He denied smoking ice in front of children, and Hanson stood by him: “Who in this country has not tried drugs” GuardianSMH . Pickering also promoted a “15-minute city” conspiracy theory ABC . An AI-generated launch video featuring a machete-wielding African man and a Middle-Eastern suicide bomber drew racism claims, and Harkin denied it was racist ABC . Redbridge’s Kristy McSweeney says voters “can’t see what they’re going to do for Victoria” ABC .

Precedent/context

One Nation won the federal Farrer by-election with about 40% primary and 57% two-party-preferred Guardian . It won the WA state seat of Secret Harbour from Labor with a 19% swing, while Labor’s primary fell 23%, in September 2026 ABC . In the 2026 South Australian election it won 4 seats against the Liberals’ 5 Wikipedia .

Policy record

The Real Deal booklet section by section, with page references, post-booklet releases and the full costing position: One Nation . Cross-party comparison is on the front page.