Thirty years on, the Coalition has no idea what to do about One Nation

It has been almost 30 years since the founding of One Nation, and the Coalition parties still haven’t worked out how to deal with it. When One Nation is on 6 per cent or thereabouts, that isn’t a major problem. However, since February 10 when YouGov put One Nation ahead of the Coalition by 28 per cent to 19 per cent, it has been a huge one. Then, on July 9, in a speech to the Sydney Institute, came fiercer fire: One Nation would ‘send us broke’. AdvertisementTaylor tried to tidy this up, saying: ‘There will be no coalition with One Nation.