It’s not all that surprising that Victorian Labor government MPs have sought a change in leadership, replacing Jacinta Allan with her deputy Ben Carroll. A range of polling on the voting intentions of Victorians indicates that the Labor government is in serious trouble.
As an example, polling by Freshwater Strategy gave Labor a primary vote of just 23 per cent, with One Nation ahead of them at 25 per cent and the Liberal-National Coalition in front at 27 per cent.
Polling commissioned by the Victorian Unions from Redbridge indicated One Nation is actually leading with a primary vote of 27% while Labor and the Liberal-National Coalition were both on 26% and the Greens had just 13%.
But what is truly staggering is that the people indicating a preference for One Nation are essentially voting for an empty chair. One Nation does not have a single seat in the lower house of the Victorian Parliament and just one representative in its upper house. It hasn’t even nominated a person that would be the leader of its Party in the Victorian Parliament after the next election.
One Nation’s Victorian campaign website, entitled “our team,” instead leads with photos of its two Queensland senators in the federal parliament – Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts – as part of the Victorian leadership team.
