YouGov: Labor 29, One Nation 27, Coalition 19 (open thread)

One Nation now knocking on the door of the Labor primary vote in the latest YouGov poll, with the Coalition remaining adrift.

The fortnightly Sky News Pulse poll by YouGov finds One Nation only one point shy of the vote it recorded in the thick of the Liberals’ early February leadership crisis, recording 27% of the primary vote with Labor down one to 29%, the Coalition steady on 19% and the Greens steady on 13%. One Nation also records its best result yet on the two-party preferred measure against Labor, with the latter leading 53-47, in from 55-45 a fortnight ago. Labor’s lead over the Coalition narrows from 55-45 to 54-46. The poll was conducted from last Thursday through to yesterday from a sample size unspecified – I will hopefully be able to provide further detail later today.

The weekly Roy Morgan poll has Labor down one-and-a-half points to 27% with the Coalition up by the same amount to 25.5%. One Nation and the Greens were each up a point, to 23.5% and 13.5% respectively. Labor’s two-party lead over the Coalition narrows from 54-46 to 52.5-47.5 on respondent-allocated preferences, and from 52-48 to 51-49 on previous election preference flows. The poll was conducted Sunday to Monday from a sample of 1664.

Author: William Bowe

William Bowe is a Perth-based election analyst and occasional teacher of political science. His blog, The Poll Bludger, has existed in one form or another since 2004, and is one of the most heavily trafficked websites on Australian politics.

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  1. I think that Trump’s vision for Kharg Island is Marine landing (from V22 Ospreys; parachutes are passé), flag raising photo opportunity (Iwo Jima), Iranian surrender, declare victory, home by Wednesday.

    And we’ll all have cheap fuel by Friday.

  2. Who can balme Ukraine for doing this, to try to at least offset some of the advantage Russia gets from the US/Israel-Iran War in higher oil revenues and diminished arms deliveries to Ukraine? Not to mention Iran’s substantial military support for Russia’s murderous assaults upon Ukraine:

    “Ukraine war briefing: Zelenskyy drums up defence agreements with Gulf states on countering missiles and drones:
    Ukraine leader says signs with Qatar and Saudi Arabia, with one to come with the United Arab Emirates, as Iran presses aerial campaign against neighbours. What we know on day 1,495”
    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/29/ukraine-war-briefing-zelenskyy-drums-up-defence-agreements-with-gulf-states-on-countering-missiles-and-drones

    Qatar and Ukraine signed a defence agreement on Saturday that included cooperation on countering threats from missiles and drones, the Gulf state’s government said, as Iran presses an aerial campaign against its neighbours. Earlier on Saturday, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy – during a previously unannounced flurry of visits to Gulf nations – said his country and the United Arab Emirates had agreed to cooperate on defence, after Iran targeted countries in the area in retaliation for US-Israeli strikes. Ukraine also signed an air defence agreement with Saudi Arabia during Zelenskyy’s visit to the kingdom earlier this week.

    “We are talking about a 10-year cooperation. We have already signed a relevant agreement with Saudi Arabia, we have just signed a similar agreement with Qatar, also for 10 years, we will sign one with the Emirates,” Zelenskyy told reporters at a briefing.

    Ukraine has quickly grown into one of the world’s leading producers of cutting-edge, battle-tested drone interceptors that are cheap and effective. They are playing a key part in its defence against Russia’s full-scale invasion, which began on 24 February 2022.

    In return for its aid to Gulf countries, Ukraine is seeking more high-end air-defence missiles that they possess and that Kyiv needs to counter Russia’s attacks. Last week Zelenskyy said that Ukraine was looking into whether it could play a role in restoring security in the strait of Hormuz.

    Ukraine wants to build long-term ties with Middle Eastern countries, Zelenskyy said, including joint production, cooperation in the energy sector, investment and sharing battlefield experience. He spoke with journalists via Zoom during an official visit in Qatar, the latest in his tour in the region. “Simple sales do not interest us,” Zelenskyy said. “We want systemic relationships, where exporters earn revenue and Ukraine receives sufficient funds to invest in domestic production.”

    Zelenskyy has sought to craft an opportunity from the war, which otherwise benefits Russia through higher oil prices and possible slowdowns in western arms supplies to Kyiv. Almost immediately, he started offering US allies in the region deals to get their hands on Ukrainian drone interceptors and has dispatched more than 200 military experts. “Surely no one else can help in this way today, with expertise,” he told reporters. “No one else possesses such experience.”

  3. Murray Watt on Sky earlier today – might be a new line of attack:

    But I think if there’s one thing that we learned from that South Australian election result, it is that there is absolutely no possibility after the next federal election that we would see a Liberal National Party government without having to rely on One Nation. We’re in a new paradigm in Australian politics now that we haven’t been in before, where the Liberals can only govern with One Nation as part of their team, and One Nation can only govern as part of a Liberal Party coalition. So, what people will need to think about is that if they vote Liberal, they’re going to get a coalition with Pauline Hanson. If they vote for One Nation, they’re going to get all the cuts that the Liberal Party will always take to an election.

    https://minister.dcceew.gov.au/watt/transcripts/interview-andrew-clennell-sky-news-sunday-agenda-2

  4. NathanA:

    Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 6:30 pm

    ‘Mavis

    The incompetence of the Trump administration is probably best exemplified by Rubio’s recent comments seeking to prevent Iran implementing a toll on the Straight of Hormuz.

    If Dick Cheney was around, a contract would already be tendered to a private firm to provide security for a fee paid by passing ships. A few years later, by a strange coincidence, ol’ Dick would be president of the company.

    By contrast, this mob are a unique blend of shameless and incompetent crooks.’

    Ha! If someone wrote a screenplay about this mob, it would be rejected as being so far over the top that no one would believe it. With the passage of time, however, the screenplay will be turned into a film and will win the Best Picture Oscar. This period in US politics will be judged by historians as the very worst since it came of age 250 years ago.

  5. I suspect there may be an outbreak of “imaginary heel spurs’ amongst the American soldiers who have been told they will be invading Irans kharg island.

  6. New Republikon poll out for Hungary, election only 2 weeks away now.

    (Republikon being Independent/Opposition aligned, taken from 23-26 March, compared with their last one on 12-17 February)

    Fidesz (Orban’s lot): 40% (+1)
    Tisza (Opposition): 49% (+2)
    Our Homeland (Agrarian nazis): 5% (-1)
    Others: 6% (-2)

  7. And this is how to stop Russia from profiting from these skyrocketing global fuel prices:

    “Russia announces gasoline export ban as Ukrainian strikes hammer oil infrastructure”
    https://kyivindependent.com/russia-announces-gasoline-export-ban-as-ukrainian-strikes-hammer-oil-infrastructure/

    Though the war in Iran has led to increased fuel profits for Moscow — including a temporary suspension of some U.S. sanctions on Russian oil transit — Ukraine’s continued assault on energy facilities in Russia has carved a significant wedge in the country’s export capacity.

    Amid Ukrainian drone strikes, tanker seizures, and damage to key pipelines, about 40% of Russia’s oil export capacity has been halted — a historic low.

  8. Kos Samaras comments on his new Redbridge poll.

    https://www.facebook.com/kosmos.samaras/posts/pfbid02vPr5woTcZ6WxxEueNbcbbb3YcQKLF2gR9LgeeJBDp1FfVEoC7WJ2czBnYw7ufNBsl

    Kos Samaras

    New RedBridge/Accent Research poll. March 23–27. After the commencement of the fuel crisis.
    The Coalition has recorded its lowest primary vote in our polling series. 17%. Down another two points. One Nation is at 29%. Labor vote steady.

    One Nation is now twelve points ahead of the Coalition that has governed Australia for the majority of the post-war era. In polling numbers, One Nation is now the Opposition. The numbers say so. The geography says so. The demographics say so.

    On the fuel crisis: the vast majority of Australians we surveyed blame Donald Trump. This is significant. It means the economic pain is being sheeted home to someone the Coalition has been reluctant to publicly confront, except Andrew Hastie. That silence is costing them.

    The realignment is not coming. It is here. The question now is whether the Coalition survives as a meaningful political force or whether it completes its transformation into a third party trailing a movement it helped create.

    More details below.

  9. Kos also made an interesting point comparing UK and Aus greens. Basically what’s helped drive the greens vote in the UK (on top of the clusterfuck that is starmer) is that UK greens members know how to, and often are, working class. Threading the needle with socially conservative voters who nonetheless support the core values of a more egalitarian economy.

    Not exactly wrong that Australian greens have a cliche of over educated white collar inner city dwellers by some

  10. Ozblog: Gas giant Santos has sent an early shipment of crude oil to a Victorian refinery to help ease Australia’s fuel crisis, which was sparked by the war in Iran.
    Santos said on Sunday it has brought forward part of a 575,000-barrel Cooper Basin crude parcel by about a month for delivery to Viva Energy, which owns and operates the Geelong refinery in Victoria.
    This means the Geelong refinery can now produce the maximum possible amount of petrol and diesel after deferring planned maintenance. Viva Energy chief executive Scott Wyatt said the Geelong refinery has been running at “maximum rates since the recent events in the Middle East with a focus on maximising diesel production”.

  11. “Core support for Anthony Albanese’s Labor government has hit its lowest mark since last year’s federal election, as the Prime Minister battles to manage an escalating cost-of-living crisis and economic headwinds fuelled by Donald Trump’s war in Iran.

    An exclusive Newspoll conducted for The Australian revealed that Labor’s primary vote has plunged to 31 per cent, down from 36 per cent in November last year and 34.6 per cent at the election.”

    And to justify a certain Libs peace talks;

    “Asked whether they approved or disapproved of US military action against Iran, 72 per cent of voters said they disapproved (including 50 per cent who strongly disapproved) compared with 23 per cent who approved and 5 per cent who said they didn’t know.

    On the question of whether Australia should join allied nations in supporting the US to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for international shipping, 63 per cent of voters opposed sending naval vessels, while 30 per cent supported it, and 7 per cent didn’t know.”

  12. “The Newspoll, which included a sample size of 1232 voters and was conducted between Monday and Thursday last week, showed the Coalition’s primary vote rising to 21 per cent, with One Nation dropping a point to 26 per cent and the Greens lifting to 12 per cent.

    Mr Albanese’s net approval rating fell further into negative territory, with 39 per cent of voters satisfied with his performance, 57 per cent dissatisfied and 4 per cent uncommitted. The Labor leader’s net approval rating of minus-18 compared to Angus Taylor’s minus-7, with 35 per cent of voters satisfied with the Opposition Leader’s performance, 42 per cent dissatisfied and 23 per cent uncommitted.

    The Labor leader maintained an 8 per cent lead over Mr Taylor on who voters rank as the Better Prime Minister, with 44 per cent backing Mr Albanese and 36 per cent endorsing the Liberal leader.

    Ahead of Monday’s national cabinet meeting to discuss the fuel crisis, two special Newspoll questions revealed overwhelming disapproval by a majority of voters against the US war against Iran and the deployment of Australian naval vessels to the Strait of Hormuz.

    Asked whether they approved or disapproved of US military action against Iran, 72 per cent of voters said they disapproved (including 50 per cent who strongly disapproved) compared with 23 per cent who approved and 5 per cent who said they didn’t know.

    On the question of whether Australia should join allied nations in supporting the US to keep the Strait of Hormuz open for international shipping, 63 per cent of voters opposed sending naval vessels, while 30 per cent supported it, and 7 per cent didn’t know.

    The Albanese government has received no formal request from the US to provide military support.

    The Newspoll showed that more than two-thirds of every age group disapproved of the US military action in Iran. One Nation voters were more likely to support the war in Iran, ahead of Liberal, Labor and Greens voters. Men are twice as likely to approve of the military action (30 per cent) as women (16 per cent).”

  13. About margin-of-error then.

    Probably as good as expected for Labor at the moment what with things as they are at the moment worldwide, and with the fuel crisis.

  14. The Greens again MOE movement at best.

    Why is the country’s longest serving minor party not doing better in an era when both major parties are on the nose?

    This is a failure for the Greens who have not shown they can rise to the moment.

  15. Plenty of polling tonight, all telling much the same story, Labor around 30, LNP around 20, Greens around 12-13 and One Nation on too many

    It’s probably a fair point re the Greens and blue collar workers, even if we’re the best friends of the unions these days. We need some plumbers running for us

  16. Greens got an all time high vote a few weeks back in SA.
    Both polls today showed vote going up.

    Only interest, is the UK vote situation slowly unfolding here?

  17. Mark’s look says it all.. he knows it’s over.. Not sure why Meta stock only feel 8% on these cases.. I assume they are appealable, however Meta is in the sights of governments around the world.. a fall of 50%+ wouldn’t surprise. the more it falls the better..

  18. Confessionssays:
    Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 8:06 pm
    Bystander @ #2007 Sunday, March 29th, 2026 – 8:01 pm

    Whatever became of Nadia who was doing such a great job coordinating the incoming polls?

    Another woman who decided this place was far too toxic and left.
    __________________________________
    That’s one way of putting it. Another way would be simply: Omar.

  19. Even on Newspoll
    The federal lib/nats combined primary vote swing against is 10.8% from the 2025 federal election

    Labor primary vote swing against was 3.6% , if this occurred on 2028 federal election day

    Labor increases Majority

  20. Kirsdarke, thats not… that inaccurate I guess.

    On another note, I would note that for those rubbishing the lack of growth from the Greens, Labors not exactly showing a healthy trajectory at this point…

    And again, this is before 5 plus interest rate and the continued flow on effects from the clusterfuck that Labor came out strongly for (and which the vast majority of Australians do not in Iran).

  21. Miskal

    Did you see the top issues as chosen by the Redbridge poll participants ?

    You may notice that the Iran War, Aukus and our relations with Israel and the USA do not rate in the top 10. Could be why the Greens are stuck in the polls.

  22. “The realignment is not coming. It is here. The question now is whether the Coalition survives as a meaningful political force or whether it completes its transformation into a third party trailing a movement it helped create.”

    Maybe implies a parallel with US politics? Repuglicans to TeaBaggers Party, to MAGA …… Repuglicans effectively cease to be.

  23. The Australian emphasising everything except the two party preferred, so that probably still looks bad for their side.

  24. I don’t think it’s all that profitable to talk all that long about the Aus Greens. Fundamentally, more than 9 out of 10 voters do not think they are the solution to any economic issues, and that is before the heat of an election where real policy scrutiny could be applied.

    But their position might be worse for the 2028 election – if the upcoming budget does indeed have changes on negative gearing and capital gains taxes as rumoured, but nothing on migration, it will be the party associated with measures that didn’t help on housing as promised, only punished a lot of people with higher taxes. It’ll be like 2013 all over again, hence why again, Labor needs to do something about migration before end 2027.

  25. 6 months ago Hastie had his tongue deep in Trump’s arse, breaking with the convention of not attacking Australian politicians in regards to foreign affairs, to write a fawning letter to Trump urging Trump to smack down Albo during their meeting.

    Maybe his flirtation with the cookers, that ended ingloriously with his being labelled a traitor and pro-zionist Israeli shill by the far-right, getting his office vandalised by Nazis in the wake of the antisemitism bill has shaken him.

    Also he looks like a giant nerd in his nerd glasses. Four eyes nerd Hastie.

    He’s also done well to hide his god-bothering, creationist, moronic anti-scientific beliefs.

  26. sprocket, the Iran war leads directly to the current surge in the cost of living in multiple facets.

    Pretending support for Iran has nothing to do with Cost of Living is absurd.

    And again, by the very metrics on this website, Labor PV has been heading south at a slow but rather stable rate. Even 2PP is wobbly, and mostly held up by the absolute clusterfuck happening on the right wing of the australian political landscape.

    How will Labors vote look once interest rates are 5+ (or hell, 6 as some are saying by June).

  27. Primary: ALP 31 (-1) ON 26 (-1) L/NP 21 (+1) GRN 12 (+1) OTH 10 (0)

    Labor 2PP ~ 32 + 0.25*26 + 0 + .85*12 + .55*10 = 54.2 —> round to 54.

    MOE (sample 1232) ~ 2.8%.

  28. Not sure why Meta stock only feel 8% on these cases..
    ———————————
    Because the market knows the billionaire c&nts running these platforms can still have a very profitable business model without being evil. Thats what makes them such evil f’ing c&nts.

    F I hate them. They should be facing criminal charges.

  29. Leroy says:
    Sunday, March 29, 2026 at 8:46 pm

    One Nation is now twelve points ahead of the Coalition that has governed Australia for the majority of the post-war era. In polling numbers, One Nation is now the Opposition. The numbers say so. The geography says so. The demographics say so.

    On the fuel crisis: the vast majority of Australians we surveyed blame Donald Trump. This is significant. It means the economic pain is being sheeted home to someone the Coalition has been reluctant to publicly confront, except Andrew Hastie. That silence is costing them.

    The conclusion to be drawn from this is that political pollsters are responsible for the herd mentality now destroying Australia’s democracy.. that herd mentality is one of following ON mindlessly.

    Why not ask the idiot voters to name 5 ON policies & how ON intends to implement them.. Pawleen couldn’t even answer that one

  30. I wonder in general if people are surprised if the rise of One Nation is genuine or is it a still just a protest vote.

  31. Kevin Bonham: Newspoll ALP 31 L-NP 21 ON 26 Grn 12 others 10
    My 2PP estimate 53.8 to ALP (-0.3)
    vs ON 53.3 to ALP (+0.2)

  32. The conclusion to be drawn from this is that political pollsters are responsible for the herd mentality now destroying Australia’s democracy.. that herd mentality is one of following ON mindlessly.

    Sceptic, the belief that political pollsters are destroying Australia’s democracy is just a kind of psychosis that emerges from hanging around on pollbludger for too long, it’s not real.

  33. It’s quite rare to see satellite imagery of damage to US assets. Here is a rather good report on damage to US air defences in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait and elsewhere in the UAE. It indicates very good targetting by Iran. Toward the end of the video they address the difficulty in getting timely and accurate satellite imagery on damage to US facilities. This report – from yesterday – is about two weeks later than the equivalent reports on US/Israeli damage to Iran. There’s a link in the description to the older stuff.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1jcwvzbUQw

  34. I do wonder what it would take for the Greens to move on their economic policies. They dont seem a very pragmatic party, but I guess this is how they keep their existing vote. But the centre right was there for the taking.

  35. Borewar scribbled,”Those arguing for free everything inevitably are those who always use free everything.”

    Stated like a true Tory. And just what would all those free things be? idiot!

  36. Kirsdarke @ #2018 Sunday, March 29th, 2026 – 8:46 pm

    About margin-of-error then.

    Probably as good as expected for Labor at the moment what with things as they are at the moment worldwide, and with the fuel crisis.

    Well within margin of error on all percentage measures. This means that the changes are INSIGNIFICANT, ie NOT WORTH COMMENTING ON. All of the commentators’ blatherings are meaningless waffle.

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