Subhead:Disillusioned Liberal members and voters shift support, with Pauline Hanson’s party positioning itself as a rising alternative ahead of the Nepean by-election.#
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I met with Michael Piastrino in Melbourne as the political landscape in Victoria continues to shift ahead of the upcoming Nepean by-election, with disaffected voters and former party members signalling a growing appetite for alternatives.
Piastrino, who stood as a Liberal candidate against former premier Dan Andrews in 2022, has now made the jump to One Nation. Reflecting on that decision, he told me: “I ran in 2022 against ex-premier Daniel Andrews in the Liberal Party. No more Liberal, One Nation all the way.”
“I decided I wanted to be in a party that… stuck together, that looked after each other and protected each other,” he said.
