Australia news live: poll puts One Nation ahead of Labor; free public transport ends in Victoria

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation now the most popular political party in the country, Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll suggests. Follow today’s news live Health minister says don’t read ‘too much’ into polls showing surging One Nation Mark Butler, the federal health minister, said he wouldn’t “read too much into the numbers” showing surging support for One Nation, noting the country is two years out from the next election. There’ll be a million polls between now and the election day, which will determine future government. I think we all understand that households are under enormous pressure right now. They have been for a period of time. We saw even before the war in Iran that our economy was pretty hot, building a lot of price pressures in the system, but that’s been greatly aggravated by the impact of this war in Iran. So I think you see that in the polls, you see it in private research. Continue reading...