The crowd, clad in orange One Nation T-shirts and flying Australian flags, appear certain they’re in the winners’ circle, with cries of “prime minister” sounding in the rabble.

The pack greeted Pauline Hanson and her newest recruit, former Liberal turned Sky News commentator Cory Bernardi, in Adelaide on Tuesday high on news of a surge in the polls.

South Australia’s March election will be the first real test of the growing One Nation vote which is feeding off the chaos in the federal Coalition – or the alliance formerly known as.

Hanson has historically been a leader who inspires total devotion, often followed by swift desertion, disorganisation, disqualifications, and c

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