• Australia’s far-right One Nation party won a key by-election in the rural seat of Farrer, securing its first lower house seat in federal parliament.
  • Candidate David Farley won 59.1% of the vote, defeating the incumbent center-right Liberal Party which had held the seat for over half a century.
  • One Nation now has four senators in the upper house, and this is the first time the party has won a lower house seat.
  • The victory does not affect the Labor Party’s majority, which still holds 94 of 150 lower house seats.
  • The result comes amid a global surge in support for far-right parties, including AfD in Germany and Reform UK in Britain.

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