One Nation overtakes Labor in national polling | Sunrise

Alright.Leading the news today, Pauline Hanson is now the leader of Australia's most popular political party.For the first time ever, One Nation's primary vote has beaten Labor's in a new poll published in the Australian Financial Review.One Nation can claim 31 % of the primary vote against Labor's 28 % because of a surge after the federal budget.For their take, let's bring in Social Services Minister Tanya Plibersek and One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce.Morning to both of you, Tanya.

These polls have had One Nation closing in on you for a while but now they have officially overtaken you.Does that worry your government?

Of course we're interested in polls but they don't drive us.What we're concerned to do is understand that people are feeling the pressure and we are all about reducing that pressure.We're about higher wages, lower taxes, a way better health system, investment in education.We know that people have been feeling the pressure.That's why we've got about $2 ,800 of tax cuts coming.It's why we support higher wages.

I think if Pauline Hanson wants to be Prime Minister, as she said in that interview yesterday, it's time for One Nation to start talking about how they would deliver some of these things.Because every opportunity they've had, they've actually voted against things that would make it easier, make life easier for Australians.And just yesterday, in the same interview where she was saying she wants to be Prime Minister, Pauline Hanson was saying that Australians are paid too much and they should be easier to sack.So if they want to be taken seriously as a party, maybe they should tell us how they're going to do what we've done, bring down the price of medicines, make sure there's more bulk billing clinics right across Australia, make sure that young Australians can get a TAFE education or an affordable university education, and most of all, how they can afford a home of their own one day.

Barnaby, we know polling isn't always right.Some people say this is a protest vote.It's pretty clear.We've had quite a few polls.They've been increasing.Is Pauline Hanson going to be the next Prime Minister?

I'd never get ahead of ourselves.That'd be hubris.It's an incredible honour.It's an indicator, not a vote.I'd like to thank Tanya for the talking points which we get every Monday morning.But the issue is that people are suffering from the cost of living because of the insane desire to change the weather via climate policy, the further socialisation of our land by incremental environmental laws, the fact that people can't afford a house.

and making it even more difficult and we'll see that shake out as it goes along.This policy is ridiculous.We haven't really done anything, any major infrastructure the nation can be proud of, no dams, no freight rail.We just get a litany of basically talking points and then the continual sort of left -wing socialisation of both our economics and our property.and at the same time the debt, to be quite frank, under both governments keeps going through the roof.In a time we should be coming as strong as possible as quickly as possible with the sort of fracturous nation of politics in South East Asia where we live, we don't get a sense that either government is ready and prepared.

protect us.The list can go on.Changing the social structure, the sort of naive belief of bringing people, hell, we're at Weston Crook and they all will get along swimmingly in Australia and everything will be fine.People are over that.Almost the embarrassment of the Judeo -Christian basis of Australia.People are sick of that.

I know these things because when you give the speeches, it's where people cheer.It's where the public is.And it's not one nation that's changed, it's the Australian public that's changed and they've changed in waves.Not an aberration, it's real and politics has changed in Australia.

Tanya, in this latest poll, 63 % of the population is saying the country's heading in the wrong direction.A lot of these polls, the last few, are since the budget.Tanya, would you agree this morning that your budget's tanked?

Well, Nan, just pause for a second.What Barnaby did just then is what One Nation always does.There's a long list of things that he complains about.

Okay, we're going to get rid of the Climate Change Department and get rid of most of your budget.Your budget's hopeless.

Hang on Barnaby, let's just let Tanya speak, please.The budget's hopeless.The budget's a disaster.This is really typical of One Nation.You get a long list of complaints and no solutions.

Hang on Barnaby, just let Tanya speak, then you'll have a turn.

You get a long list of complaints and no solutions.When you look at how they vote...Every single time, One Nation votes to make life harder for people.They vote for lower wages.They vote for less rights at work.They voted against electricity bill relief.

They voted against all the cost of living measures that we've offered as a government.And look at Barnaby's own electorate, right?Two and a half thousand people have got into a home of their own with Labor's 5 % deposit housing policy.What's Barnaby's housing policy?Look at Barnaby's health services.He's got a Medicare urgent care clinic, more than 30 ,000 people seen there and clinics that fully bulk bill have gone from 22 to 33 in his own electorate, fully bulk bill clinics because of our policies.

What has he done to assist that?What would he do to make Medicare stronger?We've made medicines cheaper in his electorate.Two new leukaemia medicines Two new leukaemia medicines listed today.Absolutely life -saving.What would Barnaby

Just email us the talking points.

Email the talking points.I'm trying to tell you but I don't get much of a chance.