One Nation party support surges in Queensland in new poll

One Nation party support surges in Queensland in new poll A Galaxy Research poll on Saturday shows a surge in support for Pauline Hanson...

One Nation party support surges in Queensland in new poll

A Galaxy Research poll on Saturday shows a surge in support for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Photo: AAP The New Daily @TheNewDailyAU

Surging support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party is set to form preference deals in the upcoming Queensland election with a Galaxy Research poll on Saturday showing voters are snubbing the state’s major parties.

The poll shows one third of voters would support minor parties or independents at the upcoming November 25 Queensl and state election, raising the potential for a hung parliament.

A staggering 18 per cent of poll participants said they would vote for One Nation, up from 15 per cent three months ago.

Meanwhile, support for the Liberal National Party had fallen to 32 per cent and the Labor vote had flat lined at 35 per cent, suggesting there is potential for neither party to win the majority.

The poll of almost 900 Queenslanders published in the Courier Mail on Saturday also showed a nine per cent increase for the Greens as voters voice their opposition to government subsidies of the proposed Adani Carmichael coal mine.

Current Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced her government would have “no rule in the future” of an assessment of a $1 billion loan to Adani on Saturday.

The Northern Infrastructure Fund (NAIF) is currently considering an application from the Indian company to receive concessional Commonwealth funds to help with the construction of a r ail link between the coal mine and the coast.

On Friday, Ms Palaszczuk revealed her partner, Shaun Drabsch, worked on an application to the NAIF, but she denied a conflict of interest.

Ms Hanson had earlier accused Ms Palaszczuk of being a “coward” for calling the state election while the One Nation leader was out of the country on a parliamentary trip to India.

The Premier called the snap November 25 election on October 29, sending voters to the ballot box two months ahead of schedule.

The decision meant Ms Hanson, who was waylaid in India, missed the first week on the Queensland campaign trail.

Tim Nicholls of the Liberal National Party dismissed suggestions he would need the support of One Nation to become the next Queensland Premier at a press conference on the Gold Coast on Saturday.

The leader said he wouldn’t play into the polling and didn’t agree he needed the support of One Nation.

“Polls will come and go, you know I don†™t comment on polls,” Mr Nicholls said on Saturday.

“The most important poll is the poll that will be held in three weeks time on the 25th of November.”

Ms Palaszczuk had previously said she would not enter into a deal with One Nation, even if it meant losing government.

Professor John Wanna, a political expert at Australian National University and Griffith University had previously told The New Daily that “fighting against One Nation” would make it difficult for the LNP to form a majority.

“They might need One Nation’s support on the floor of Parliament,” he said.

“They might also need One Nation’s preferences in some of the key seats where they can’t beat Labor on the primary.”

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