Newspoll puts One Nation on 28% and Labor on 27%; Albanese's net approval is minus 23

One Nation, led by Senator Pauline Hanson, is one point ahead of Labor on primary votes in the latest Newspoll for The Australian, which Bloomberg reported at 10:09pm GMT on Sunday 1 November. Bloomberg, which described One Nation as far-right, said support for Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s centre-left government had slipped against a backdrop of elevated inflation and interest-rate increases.

The Newspoll figures

The poll of 1,200 voters was conducted online from 26 to 29 October by Pyxis Polling & Insights for The Australian, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.2 percentage points, according to Bloomberg and The Nightly. Changes are against the previous Newspoll, conducted in early October, as reported by The Poll Bludger and Polling Forecast.

Primary vote	Now	Change
One Nation	28%	steady
Labor	27%	down 2
Coalition	21%	up 1
Greens	13%	down 1
Others	11%	–

The previous Newspoll had Labor on 29% and One Nation on 28%, so the order of the two parties has reversed. The one-point gap is smaller than the poll’s stated margin of error. The Nightly, citing The Australian, reported that Labor’s 27% is the equal-lowest level since Albanese won office in 2022. The reports reviewed did not give a two-party-preferred figure.

Leaders’ ratings

• Albanese: 36% satisfied and 59% dissatisfied, a net approval of minus 23, the worst of the three leaders, per The Poll Bludger and AAP.
• Coalition leader Angus Taylor: 37% satisfied and 47% dissatisfied, minus 10.
• Hanson: 47% satisfied and 48% dissatisfied, minus 1, up from minus 9 in the previous poll, according to the Daily Mail’s report of the poll.
• Preferred prime minister, three-way: Albanese 44% (down 1), Hanson 30% (steady), Taylor 26% (up 1).
• Albanese against Taylor head to head: 42% to 40%, narrowed from 44% to 39%.

Other polling and context

A separate Capital Brief/DemosAU poll of 1,500 voters, conducted 23 to 26 October with a margin of error of plus or minus 3.4 points, had Labor and One Nation level on 26%, the Coalition on 24% (up 4) and the Greens on 13%. DemosAU said its modelling suggested the most likely outcome of an election held in the polling period would be a hung parliament.

Bloomberg said the Newspoll came a day before the Reserve Bank of Australia was expected to deliver its fifth rate rise of 2026, and that rising prices, high borrowing costs and falling house prices had weighed on consumer confidence. AAP reported that Albanese was overseas in the Caribbean this week. This site’s preview of the central bank decisions covers the Reserve Bank’s Tuesday meeting.

Background: For an earlier One Nation story, see One Nation rejects Albanese’s offer of extra staffer for MP David Farley.