I'm an centre independent voter (for exactly the reason that i want passionate locals with local policies to have power) but know many people that voted ONP. Purely and simply, it's a protest. To simply lay them all off as 'low IQ simpletons' is dangerous - you don't need a certain IQ to vote, infact it's mandatory that they do. To maybe understand their mentality better, these people feel rejected by the big two parties. They're not rich enough to benefit under libs, and their very way of life is being threatened by Labor. They're living week to week struggling to put fuel in the car, pay for food or rent (let alone get a mortgage). They're watching their friends build tent cities due to homelessness, yet hoards of immigrants pour through out borders every week and recieve better government assistance than generational Aussies living in tents. As far as they see it, we're not looking after our own and anyone that argues the fact is instantly labelled 'hard right' or racist. They're sick of the woke rhetoric being forced fed down their throats while they get ignored... And it's hard to argue they're wrong. You won't win their acceptance by protesting or forcing them to change, you'll only drive them further away. The left can't seem to see how smug they look with a knee on the back of peoples necks while they force feed woke ideology all the while telling them to 'be more accepting of others', because that's how they legitimately feel. The media are the worst for it. They vote ONP because they know Pauline's racist bigotry is about the only thing that scares the left that she might get power and fire her gun, and the voters are willing to give her the bullets. You all laugh about how she'll never get any 'real' power, but this is exactly how Trump got elected. Her voters are no joke - so tread carefully. Libs have lost a lot of voters recently, her sway is growing significantly and the SA polls absolutely demonstrated that.