View from The Hill: One Nation’s performance in SA will send shivers down Angus Taylor’s spine for Farrer campaign

As he looks to his own coming wrestle with One Nation in the May 9 Farrer byelection, Angus Taylor can only take from Saturday’s South Australian result a sense of deep trepidation.

One Nation drove a front-end loader through the conservative vote in the state election, slicing it in half and gathering up a higher primary vote than the Liberals. It is likely to do something similar in the federal New South Wales regional seat.

On early indications, the frontrunners in Farrer are One Nation candidate David Farley, an agribusinessman and former National Party member, and…

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