Mutiny at the bowling club: One Nation crashes Adelaide’s safest seat
Lifelong Liberal voters in Adelaide’s elite eastern suburbs are defecting to One Nation, citing cost-of-living and immigration concerns.
From left, Liberal leader Ashton Hurn, Labor premier Peter Malinauskas and One Nation’s Pauline Hanson, whose party is attracting voters on immigration and cost of living fears. Bethany Rae
Walking to her car after a One Nation campaign launch at the Kensington bowling club in Adelaide’s wealthy eastern suburbs last week, Therese Britton-La Salle describes a scene at her local supermarket. She offers the anecdote by way of explanation when asked why a former life-long Liberal voter is now curious about Pauline Hanson.
“A migrant family is pushing multiple trolleys through the aisles, seeming to care little for what entered their cart,” says Britton-La Salle, an elected member of her local council. “That’s why interest rates are going up. It isn’t people like us that are causing inflation.”
Daniel ArbonDeputy newsletter editorDaniel Arbon is deputy newsletter editor for The Australian Financial Review. Email Daniel at daniel.arbon@nine.com.au
