Home of the fake left, The Guardian, should read this and weep.
One Nation’s polling surge has continued with a record-high primary vote of 22% in the latest Guardian Essential poll off the back of ongoing Coalition chaos and rising social tensions.
Meanwhile, there is widespread public support for the Labor government’s response to the Bondi beach terror attack, with a majority backing crackdowns on guns, hate speech and protests. However, most poll respondents say Anthony Albanese has poorly handled the fallout from the antisemitic shooting.
The prime minister’s personal approval rating continues to fall, but there is also little good news for the opposition leader, Sussan Ley, whose popularity has dropped as she faces the prospect of a Liberal leadership spill as early as next week.
A second poll confirms that ON is now the official opposition, according to Roy Morgan:
In the week of January 19-25, 2026, the Roy Morgan Poll shows primary support for the ALP up 2% to 30.5% and One Nation support up 1.5% to 22.5% and ahead of the Liberal Party on 20% (down 2%) for the first time during the week the National Party dissolved the L-NP Coalition – at least for now. Primary support for National was up 0.5% to 2.5%.
We have warned for a decade that the intellectual cowardice of The Guardian would produce this outcome by shutting down the immigration debate.
Perhaps most pointedly, we have spent years describing the apostasy of Greg Jericho as he swung from a data-driven analyst to a fake-left censor, clearly under the influence of editor, Lenore Taylor.
It has also rendered the formerly excellent Australia Institute unreadable.
The populist upwelling that The Guardian has created is now evident, resulting from its treatment of anyone who highlighted how the immigration-led economic model has harmed the living standards of youth and lower-income households through suppressed wages and productivity, increased rents and prices that have displaced people, overwhelmed public services, and disrupted the social fabric.
It will take two steps to fix it.
First, the fake left must rediscover Karl Marx and the basics of class warfare.
Second, immigration must be cut to zero.
Sure, there’ll be growing pains, but that’s now the cost of putting down the rebellion, and if nobody else does it, ON will keep rising until Pauline takes over Canberra.
To her credit, immigration cheerleader Millie Muroi can see the two points.
When there’s an urgent need for workers – to care for our growing pool of grandparents, for example – or to make our GDP numbers look good (we can partly blame the media for its obsession with these figures), it’s easy for decision-makers to just bring in more people. Although as we’ve seen, it comes with political risk.
But relying on population growth alone as a Band-Aid fix for our workforce shortages and to fuel our economic growth is a problem.
While having more people increases the amount we can produce as a country, it’s not total economic growth we should care about so much as economic growth per person. There’s little point in having a bigger pie when each slice is unchanged – or smaller.
Indeed, Millie.
But it is too late for soft steps. Post-Bondi, Australia is headed into a rupture.
Either immigration is cut to zero, or ON destroys and overtakes the LNP.
Your choice, fake left.
