How far can Pauline Hanson’s One Nation ride Australia’s growing far-right wave?

SYDNEY – Australian anti-migrant firebrand Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party catapulted into second place in a recent opinion poll, overtaking the Liberal-National Coalition for the first time amid widening cracks in the conservative bloc.

The boost to One Nation’s popularity follows the

Dec 14 terrorist attack at Sydney’s Bondi Beach

, in which an Islamic State-supporting father-and-son duo shot and killed 15 people at a Jewish festival event.