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Australia news live: poll puts One Nation ahead of Labor; free public transport ends in Victoria

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation now the most popular political party in the country, Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll suggests. Follow today’s news liveOne dead after house fire in MelbourneA person has died and another was seriously injured after an early morning house fire in Melbourne, Australian...

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by Nick Visser
Australia news live: poll puts One Nation ahead of Labor; free public transport ends in Victoria

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation now the most popular political party in the country, Redbridge Group/Accent Research poll suggests. Follow today’s news live

One dead after house fire in Melbourne

A person has died and another was seriously injured after an early morning house fire in Melbourne, Australian Associated Press reports.

What Australians are right now is despairing of the state of this government. … We need to be better and make sure that we clearly communicate to the Australian community what we’re going to do. But I’m absolutely convinced that, not just we will be here in the next parliament, but we will go on to win. …

I think there’s a chunk of voters who are just going into the orange paddock of despair because there’s a lot of noise and attention there, but we need to actually make it clear where we want to take the country.

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