🟠 JESS WILSON'S OWN SUNBURY CANDIDATE DISCARDS HER OWN PARTY'S UPPER HOUSE TICKET AND URGES ANTI-LABOR VOTERS TO ELECT ONE NATION TO THE COUNCIL 🟠 Liberal candidate Simmone Cottom has been caught on tape telling a Sunbury resident to vote One Nation in the upper house, instantly destroying Opposition Leader Jess Wilson's public promise of "no deals". Cottom offered a desperate deal to the voter: "Lower house, Liberals, and if you really want One Nation, give them a go in the upper house." She later admitted, "I shouldn't have said it." Her betrayal exposes a Liberal campaign that knows it cannot win on its own merit. Cottom relies heavily on One Nation secondary preferences, having picked up 71% of their vote during her 2025 federal run in Hawke. Now, with One Nation candidate Elita Dabrowski running a strong local campaign against widespread illegal dumping, Cottom has effectively admitted the Liberals lack the numbers to govern alone. Read the full story here: onenewsaustralia.com/jess-wi… 🔴 Get our news straight to your inbox before Labor's Digital Duty of Care bill buries them, subscribe to our FREE daily newsletter here: onenewsaustralia.com/support… Follow us on Facebook here: facebook.com/onenewsaustrali… And subscribe for FREE on our YouTube channel youtube.com/@onenewsaustrali… so you can watch the stories the feeds won't show you.

🟠 VICTORIAN PROJECTION: ONE NATION'S ORANGE BELT CUTS THROUGH OUTER MELBOURNE AS COALITION DOMINATES REGIONAL VICTORIA 🟠 The latest seat modelling based on Newspoll and Resolve data reveals a state carved into three distinct territories: the Coalition holding the regions blue, One Nation taking the outer suburban fringe orange, and Labor pinned into a shrinking footprint in inner Melbourne. Here is how the numbers stack up on the ground: • 𝗖𝗼𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝟯𝟳 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀): Sweeping almost every regional electorate from Mildura to Gippsland East, laying a solid foundation for the right. • 𝗢𝗻𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 (𝟭𝟭 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀): Dominating Melbourne's outer suburban fringe, locking in Melton, Sydenham, St Albans, Kororoit and Point Cook in the west, Cranbourne and both Narre Warren seats in the south-east, and Mill Park, Greenvale and Yan Yean in the north. • 𝗟𝗮𝗯𝗼𝗿 (𝟴 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀): Reduced to a tiny inner-city shell covering Footscray, Pascoe Vale, Preston, Northcote, Ivanhoe, Oakleigh, Mulgrave and Geelong, as its traditional working-class outer suburbs flip orange. • 𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 (𝟮 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀): Holding Melbourne and Brunswick in their inner-city heartland. • 𝗜𝗻 𝗗𝗼𝘂𝗯𝘁 (𝟯𝟬 𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘁𝘀): Tightly contested within 3 points across the eastern suburbs, the bayside strip, and regional hubs like Ballarat, Bendigo and Geelong. The combined right bloc of One Nation and the Coalition already sits on 48 seats, clearing the 45-seat majority needed to govern before a single one of the 30 marginal seats is even counted. The left bloc of Labor, the Greens, independents and others trails far behind on just 10 seats. With 30 seats still up for grabs (the right leading in 20, the left in 10), the Coalition's seat count could range anywhere from 33 to 56, while One Nation sits in line for 11 to 19 seats. Labor has no path to victory on these numbers. Even in the absolute best-case scenario across every tight contest, Labor tops out at 16 seats, leaving the party completely incapable of forming government. Want to have your say? Cast your vote quickly at @openpollaus with no login needed, or sign up free at openpoll.com.au/ to access every poll and track live results in real time. Follow every poll on our tracker here: onenewsaustralia.com/austral… 🔴 Get our news straight to your inbox before Labor's Digital Duty of Care bill buries them, subscribe to our FREE daily newsletter here: onenewsaustralia.com/support… Follow us on Facebook here: facebook.com/onenewsaustrali… And subscribe for FREE on our YouTube channel youtube.com/@onenewsaustrali… so you can watch the stories the feeds won't show you.