Prime Minister Pauline surges

Monday 1 June 2026

The panic is on in the MSM as Prime Minister Pauline surges into the realm of reality.

One Nation has surged past Labor to become Australia’s most popular political party, following a federal budget that flopped with voters, cost the government support and caused the personal standing of the prime minister and treasurer to plunge, a new poll shows.

Canberra hate is going more and more mainstream. And why wouldn’t it? There is no national conversation that makes sense to anybody as living standards tumble.

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About the author

David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.