While the media declares the election over on Saturday night, One Nation always has to wait a lot longer for our results where we have the best chance of being elected – in the proportional representation of the Senate.
Senate races can take up to 5 weeks to count, meaning we may still be 3 weeks away from a formal declaration of the result.
In the House of Representatives, One Nation’s nationwide result is very satisfying with a nationwide average vote of 6.39% (+1.43).
A particular shout out must go to Stuart Bonds in the Hunter NSW, who beat the Nationals and was the last candidate standing for the two-party preferred count up against Labor.
With some final counting still to come, 970,000 Australians chose to mark One Nation as their number one choice for the House of Representatives alone. I am eternally grateful to all of our fantastic candidates, volunteers and online supporters that made this result possible.
I know Labor’s victory may not have been what a lot of you were hoping for. Yet, amidst the uncertainty, there’s a clear and encouraging outcome: The Greens have lost three of their four lower house MP’s – Max Chandler-Mather (Griffith) and Stephen Bates (Brisbane), as well as the leader of the party, Adam Bandt in Melbourne.
For too long, the Greens have pushed divisive ideologies that have hurt our industries, undermined our values, and driven a wedge between Australians. Their agenda has been out of touch with everyday Australians, and this result shows that voters are ready for a change. This is a win for common sense and a win for hardworking Australians who’ve had enough of being ignored. It’s time for policies that put Australia first.
My re-election in the Queensland Senate is looking strong. The counting process is still underway and is expected to take a couple more weeks to finalise.
A number of One Nation candidates for the Senate in other states have made a commendable effort. They will be more reliant on very strong preference flow to get over the line, which we won’t know the result of for a number of weeks.
Despite a significant increase in the One Nation vote, Jennifer Game in South Australia finds herself in a challenging position—through no fault of her own. This situation is largely due to the way Senate seats are being filled, following a dismal performance by the Coalition and a strong surge from Labor. Unfortunately, this has made the path to securing a seat more difficult.
I’m crossing my fingers for an extra strong preference flow towards Warwick Stacey in NSW, Lee Hanson in TAS, Warren Pickering in VIC and Tyrone Whitten in WA.
None of the micro parties have a chance at getting a Senator in, however the parties that recommended to their voters to preference against One Nation may stop us getting over the line in those states. We remain hopeful.
In short: the race isn’t over yet!
I am deeply grateful for everyone especially in Queensland who supported One Nation and my campaign.
We saw a rise in support, thanks in large part to our comprehensive policy platform, the dedication of our incredible volunteers who gave their time, energy, and resources to help spread the message and man polling booths. Their commitment made a real difference, and this result is a testament to their hard work.
Once the Senate count is finalised and there’s more news to share, I’ll be sure to keep you updated. In the meantime, rest assured—we’re already hard at work planning our strategy for tackling the new Parliament. Our focus remains clear: restoring common sense to the decisions that shape our country’s future.
Get out of Paris agreement and the World Health Organisation
And Lima, that has no signatures, but has been written into our laws , policies and procedures.
Yes, I second that!!
Me too, I agree.
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Hi Senator Roberts,
I scrutineered for a couple of hours at the Fuji building upon your invitation. I hope my other commitments will allow me to do it again on 26th. Sorry I cannot do more. Here are some thoughts so far:
What I saw looked all good and appropriate. I like Tom, the AEC fellow in charge. He kindly answered my many questions. I think it is a good idea to have some One Nation presence there at the Fuiji Centre. I think the combination of private employees (sworn to standards) along with AEC supervision is the right combination of workers, rather than all public servants, for example,
it seems that the processes of receiving ballots, scanning them, storing them securely, and humans checking the machine interpretation of the numbers on the ballots is all done (well) at the Browns Plains centre (Fuji bldg).
However, a couple of things still concern me:
It seems that no human being actually counts the ballots or executes the complicated senator-decision-procedure. This appears to be all done by the Fuji software, presumably implemented (and maintained?) by someone in Canberra (or Japan?)
So in Queensland, ballot papers are digitised with care, but NOT COUNTED.
– Another strike against Federalism – even our state representative senators are decided in Canberra!
Another more serious concern I have, is the absolute confidence everyone has in the machines, whilst this aspect is the easiest point of attack for someone with money and some technical knowledge (eg Soros, WEF, our own government, a random billionaire, or union)
Are the machines online? Can they be hacked, or controlled externally?
Who wrote the counting software? Who implements the counting software? Who has entry into the building where the controlling computer resides? Might not they, the night before, substitute another version of the counting software, which appears identical, but actually counts in another way?
I have written software myself, and know that machines can be made to do almost anything, while appearing in a particular way to the users.
A ship only needs one leak to sink.
I would like to understand more about AEC’s processes to be able to rule out some of these concerns. I also think more transparency should be given by AEC on these points.
cheers,
Matt Dean
Thanks for the opportunity
Thank you so much for your help Matt. It is truly appreciated. On the auditing, One Nation successfully pushed for the first ever audit of physical ballot papers back to the machine results.
Thanks to our work on this it is now a standard procedure and we’ll be following up on the progress of the 2025 audit once the button is pushed.
Transparency is absolutely essential and will only give more confidence in the voting system. I agree with you that being able to attend and supervise is a great balance and check on the system and we are ensuring there is as much transparency as possible in all the other areas.
With a combination of supervision and audits I believe we can have confidence but this requires ongoing vigilance and the greatly appreciated help of volunteers like yourself to be a part of this process, again thank you!!
Thanks Malcolm. Keep it up !
Strength in numbers join with Katter, this will almost double our combined results
We need to have an education campaign to educate voters on preference voting. Flood every platform with the CORRECT method and how it works. 5 min video.
Fingers crossed for the preferences to flow to One Nation—although it may not be possible at this time, we need One Nation to have the balance of power at least in the Senate. It has been most disappointing to see previous ON MPs desert the Party in the past and that has been a conundrum to me — deserting the Party only serves to weaken it. ON may need to be more discerning when selecting candidates and this needs to be done well before elections are called to allow an extended period for campaigning.
I can’t understand how Labor got in as everyone had had a gutfull of them . Definitely immigrants had to be the reason , there’s enough of them !
Well done Malcolm Roberts! Well done to Stewart Bonds! And well done Lee Hanson! I really hope they win the seats! Nobody better deserving of them. I’ve been following Stewart and Lee and I like their common sense and honesty as well as their understandings of what it’s like to be a normal Australian and actually work for their money. Lee is absolutely brilliant! Pauline has done well raising her beautiful strong daughter and must be proud! Malcolm you are a bloody legend! Id love to have people like you in WA! I am a proud ONE NATION member!
As a woman it was an easy decision for me to vote number one for One Nation. I like what Pauline Hanson stands for and I have much appreciation for your efforts in the Senate, thank you Malcolm. You were the first person to alert us to the activities of WHO with the sexulaisation of children. The loss of seats for the Greens has brought joy to many people, yay! But I am hearing now that the Greens will have the “Balance of Power” in the Senate – how can that be?
Hi Malcolm,
Just a bit of feedback for you and Pauline.
Like most Australians, the political system is a bit of a bore and not followed in too much detail until and election comes around.
The cartoon series roped me in. Re- educated me. Motivated me to take a more serious interest.
Talking to people over the last say 18 months, I kept asking if around to find out how many people were aware of the cartoons. I was very surprised to learn to high number of people tuning in. And loving them.
As I was watching them through Facebook, the algorithm assessed that it was a topic I was interested in. This followed with many of your postings from the Senate. Absolute eye openers; deer in the headlights. I couldn’t believe the number of VERY legitimate questions you are asking, only to be answered with “taking on notice”. If you did get an answer to a long term question (on notice), the eventual answer was a “pineapple”.
I hope that the end of Senate counting allows One Nation to bare more teeth.