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Hanson’s press club speech a ‘reality check’ for Australians, says Watt
Environment minister Murray Watt, says One Nation’s popularity dipping from 31% to 29% is due to Pauline Hanson’s controversial press club address, but concedes the “polls will bounce around a bit.”
We have seen a bit of a change in the public mood towards One Nation since Pauline Hanson’s Press Club speech.
I think that speech was a bit of a reality check for a lot of Australians who were thinking about voting for One Nation, because they got to see that as much as people are under pressure at the moment, things could get worse under One Nation with all the cuts they were talking about imposing.
Yes, of course, any improvement is welcome. But we know that we to provide real answers and real change to the pressure that people are feeling.
I’m a half glass full sort of guy, Nat [Barr] and the the electorate’s very restless. People are understandably restless because they’ve seen their incomes decline back to 2011 levels under government … So it’s very volatile.
The first thing you’ve got to do is get the herd moving and the herd is moving. It’s just not going through the the right gate for us at the moment.
