Overview

• The Australian Electoral Commission declared on May 30 that Warwick Stacey won the final New South Wales Senate seat for One Nation, bringing the party’s total to four senators.
• The new senators include Tyron Whitten, a Western Australia–based businessman, and Warwick Stacey, a former British soldier and hostage negotiator, joining Pauline Hanson and re-elected Malcolm Roberts.
• Labor will hold 28 seats in the 76-member Senate, the Coalition 27, the Greens 11, One Nation four, and six others form the crossbench.
• One Nation’s four-seat presence matches its best outcome from the 2016 double-dissolution election.
• Hanson has indicated the enlarged caucus will advocate for tighter migration limits and oppose Australia’s net-zero emissions targets.