July 2, 2026 — 11:45amAndrew Hastie has vowed to recontest the next election as a Liberal, denying he was reconsidering his future amid competing views within the party about how best to tackle the surge of One Nation and despite being forced to ramp up personal security.Political commentator Niki Savva suggested on Thursday that Hastie could leave the party if he felt abandoned in his fight with One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and her supporters.Andrew Hastie in the House of Representatives on Tuesday.Alex EllinghausenHastie said on Thursday that was “not at all” on the cards. “I intend to contest the next election as a Liberal,” he said.Hastie has faced an onslaught of online abuse and was identified for security upgrades at his home and electorate office after giving evidence in accused war criminal Ben Roberts-Smith’s defamation action against this masthead.Hastie believes the campaign is being fuelled by One Nation and its supporters, according to multiple sources present at a recent Coalition party room meeting. Hanson has been a vocal advocate for Roberts-Smith, who has been charged with five counts of war crime murder. Roberts-Smith has consistently denied wrongdoing.Hanson’s chief of staff, James Ashby, has suggested One Nation has a strong membership base in Hastie’s West Australian electorate of Canning, and that the party will run a strong candidate against him at the next election.Hastie last week told his colleagues he would rather be “taken out in a box than bend the knee to One Nation”, while Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has avoided taking on the minor party so directly.Hastie said he was “more than happy with the support that I’ve received, and a happy member of the Liberal Party”.Asked about the internal split over how best to grapple with the rise of the minor party, Hastie said the Liberals needed to focus on addressing the anger of the Australian people and “delivering centre-right government”.He flagged the challenge facing his colleagues at the next election and vowed to fight on.“There are members of the Coalition who are facing a two-front war. And I think it’s important that we campaign as strong as we can to defeat Labor, and if people want to try and knock us out on the right, well, they need to be dealt with as well.”Hastie was a contender for the party leadership earlier this year as former leader Sussan Ley’s position crumbled, before bowing out to make way for Taylor after negotiations within the party’s conservative flank.He will lose a key ally this year when fellow frontbencher Jonno Duniam retires from politics.Hastie told 2GB on Thursday that he wanted to win back people who had started giving their support to One Nation.“If I’m getting attacked by Pauline Hanson and James Ashby and Barnaby Joyce, then it looks weak to not respond. Weakness is provocative,” he said.“So I want to see the Liberal Party strong again, and that’s what I’m working with, and that’s why I’m supporting Angus Taylor as our leader.”Cut through the noise of federal politics with news, views and expert analysis. Subscribers can sign up to our weekly Inside Politics newsletter.From our partners