The likeability of right-wing populist MPs including Pauline Hanson, Barnaby Joyce and Andrew Hastie is surging among voters, in findings that internal critics of Sussan Ley could use to argue the Coalition is on the wrong track.

Ley, a member of the Liberals’ moderate faction, wants to move the Coalition back to the political middle ground after Peter Dutton’s shellacking at the May 2025 election.

The party is bitterly split on preserving or ditching net zero emissions by 2050. While the opposition leader privately supports the policy, the Liberals are expected to copy the Nationals and formally drop the two-word target on Wednesday, in a further blow to the leader’s authority.

It’s tough times for a centrist. The latest Resolve Political Monitor, which surveyed 1804 respondents and wa

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