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The rise and rise of One Nation has seen support translate into seats in state parliament for the first time. The party secured more first preference votes than the Liberal opposition and has conservatives across the country scrambling as voters prepare to go to the polls in Australia's two biggest states.

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00:02An unprecedented result for One Nation in South Australia's state election.
00:07I think it's wonderful, I voted for One Nation.
00:10I voted Labor every state election leading up to it, but this time I voted for One Nation.
00:15In Murray Bridge, locals say they want change.
00:19I think the affordability is obviously the thing that's affecting people,
00:23and petrol and that flows onto the cost of living and things like that.
00:26The young ones can't buy houses now. They're flooding Australia with immigrants.
00:32I'm not racist, I don't have a problem with it, but I just have a problem with the numbers.
00:36A lot of people don't see much as being done around here.
00:39On election night in Kadena on the York Peninsula, there were similar sentiments.
00:44One Nation wants Australia back as Australia.
00:49Oh, net zero, don't get me started on that. That needs to be abolished.
00:54Polling says what we're all thinking.
00:56So far, One Nation has secured the seat of Nadjeri, north of Adelaide,
01:00and stands a high chance of winning three more.
01:03Hammond in the Murraylands, MacKillop in the south-east,
01:07and Narunga on the York Peninsula.
01:09One Nation federal recruit Barnaby Joyce
01:12attributes the party's success on Saturday to their strong opinions.
01:17Clarity, unity, strength, we've been saying that all the way through.
01:20We, in One Nation, we like it if you like us, we understand if you don't.
01:25We should try and find what we agree on.
01:27Now, trust me, there's going to be plenty of things that we disagree on too,
01:31but why don't we start from a position of what we can work together on?
01:33The regional seat of Hammond is one of many across South Australia,
01:37where voters threw their support behind One Nation in record numbers.
01:42Its population centre is here in Murray Bridge,
01:45where, in many polling booths, they came first on primary votes.
01:49With an upcoming May by-election in Susan Lee's former federal seat of Farrah in New South Wales
01:55and the Victorian state election in November, nationally, major parties are already on the attack.
02:02Let's face it, One Nation, having been around for now 30 years,
02:06are yet to have ever delivered a budget.
02:09They haven't delivered a hospital, they haven't delivered a road.
02:12As counting continues in SA,
02:14One Nation is polling more than 20% of the primary vote ahead of the Liberal Party,
02:19which is now facing warnings of a long road back.
02:23The federal election is a long way away, but it does show that it's meaningful.
02:27You know, if there was an election, I think a lot of people would vote for One Nation.
02:30And so in that sense, South Australia is an example.
02:33An example and a potential threat across the political spectrum.
02:37Well, this is a problem.
02:39Well, this is a problem.
02:39On a point in the earthquake,
02:39Now that's a problem.
02:39So it doesn't work in the state.
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