One Nation, a right-wing populist party, won the May 9 by-election in Farrer, a rural New South Wales seat that had been held by the Liberal Party, one of Australia's two main conservative parties, since 1949, the Australian Financial Review reported the same day.

Australia's mainstream right wing is normally dominated by the Liberal-National coalition, an alliance between the urban and suburban Liberal Party and the more rural National Party that competes federally against the center-left Labor Party. One Nation's win comes amid a period of historic coalition weakness, including high-profile defections from the coalition to One Nation, and the startup party was able to turn voter anger over cost of living, immigration and distrust of major parties into a lower house seat.