‘We’ve got to send a message’: Why Farrer is going One Nation

Paul KarpNSW political correspondent
May 7, 2026 – 5.00am

“Pauline Hanson’s the best – chuck out the rest,” declares Raelene Fantig, sitting by the Murray River after voting early in the Farrer byelection.

An Albury-based aged care worker who usually registers a donkey vote in protest, Fantig has finally found a crusade to believe in: Hanson’s decades-long battle against immigration.

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Paul KarpNSW political correspondentPaul Karp is The Australian Financial Review’s NSW political correspondent.

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