Excerpts from article by NYT's Victoria Kim:

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Farrer is home to about 175,000 residents in a region the size of Mississippi, where the top local concerns are water management and an overburdened local health care system.

Even so, the [Farrer special election] race was breathlessly covered by the Australian media as a bellwether of whether One Nation was on the cusp of a rise comparable to those of Reform U.K or Alternative for Germany — one that would shake the two forces that have always dominated politics here, the center-right Liberal-National Coalition and the center-left governing Labor party.

On Saturday night, multiple outlets called the win a “political earthquake." The seat had been held by the Coalition since its inception in 1949, most recently by Sussan Ley, a former leader of the conservative opposition, whose resignation in February prompted the special election.

“There is serious potential for realignment for Australian politics on the right, the way we’ve seen in Europe,” said Benjamin Moffitt, a senior lecturer in political and international relations at Monash University whose research has focused on the global rise of populism.

[One Nation founder] Ms. Hanson, who has said that Australia risks being “swamped” by Asians and Muslims, remains staunchly against immigration. She has also been critical of public support for, or recognition of, Indigenous Australians and has assailed what she calls political correctness.

Many of her positions are closely aligned with President Trump’s messaging. Last year, she spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Mar-a-Lago, where she praised Mr. Trump’s policies and laid out her aims of wanting to mirror them in Australia.

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