Australia’s Trump-aligned populists vow to fight mass migration

Australia’s right-wing populist One Nation party, which wants to emulate U.S. President Donald Trump’s aggressive deportations, vowed to focus on ending mass migration, after winning its first seat in the country’s lower house. Saturday’s by-election win by farmer David Farley in the rural seat of Farrer, some 550 km (340 miles) south of Sydney, does not affect the majority of centre-left Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, as the seat was previously held by a member of the Liberals, the biggest conservative group. But it is a significant advance for One Nation, which has four Senate seats. The party is polling second this year to Albanese’s Labor Party in opinion surveys, ahead of the mainstream conservative coalition. One Nation’s leader, Senator Pauline Hanson, has higher approval ratings than Albanese or the Liberal leader. “The people of Australia will not be forgotten. One Nation will fight for you on the floor of Parliament,” Hanson posted on X late on Saturday. “We will