Guardian Essential poll: voters reject key One Nation policies as support slips

More than half of voters doubt whether One Nation have the skills to run the country, the Guardian Essential poll shows. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP View image in fullscreen More than half of voters doubt whether One Nation have the skills to run the country, the Guardian Essential poll shows. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Guardian Essential poll: voters reject key One Nation policies as support slips Survey shows two-point fall in vote amid concern about Pauline Hanson’s links to Gina Rinehart and ability to run country Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast Australians have emphatically rejected some of One Nation’s key policies, including shutting down SBS and ending multiculturalism, with voters raising concerns about Pauline Hanson’s closeness to the billionaire mining magnate Gina Rinehart and whether the party has the skills needed to run the country, according to a new poll. But even as the latest Guardian Essential poll finds voters have major reservations about Hanson and her party, more than half of respondents said they were either definitely or at least considering voting for One Nation at the next election. The Guardian Essential poll of 1,017 voters was conducted last week – after Hanson’s controversial press club speech – and found One Nation’s primary vote dropping two points, to 26% from last month’s 28% . Labor’s primary vote ticked up one point, to 30%, while the Coalition remained on 23%. Those movements are within the margin of error of the poll but are consistent with several other published polls this week – Newspoll, Redbridge and Roy Morgan, among others – which found a slight increase in Labor’s vote and a slight decrease for One Nation. Hanson has recorded far higher net approval ratings than the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, or the opposition leader, Angus Taylor. But after a fortnight of media scrutiny on Hanson and her party’s policies, Australians have resoundingly rejected many of One Nation’s key proposals. Peter Lewis, the executive director of Essential Media, said this month’s poll suggested One Nation’s poll may be “plateauing”. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email Only 15% of respondents supported Hanson’s calls to privatise the ABC , with just 11% agreeing to shut down SBS. After Hanson’s calls for a “monoculture” in Australia , only 20% said they’d support ending multiculturalism. Just 18% supported withdrawing Australia from the United Nations, while only 18% backed calls to review workplace laws to give employers more power. Slightly higher numbers said they would support stopping abortion after 20 weeks (26%) and stopping the renewables transition to instead focus on fossil fuels (25%). When racism is so entrenched in Australia, could paying lip service to multiculturalism do more harm than good? | Anhaar Kareem Read more More broadly, only 29% of Australians said abortion should be legal in all cases – down 12% from t