With victory seemingly in sight, Wilson could be forgiven for believing a small-target strategy is enough to carry the Coalition across the line.
With the Victorian election just 16 days away, Jess Wilson’s odds of becoming the next premier are improving.
The latest The Australian Financial Review/RedBridge/Accent Research poll puts the Coalition at 31 per cent, up 1 percentage point, comfortably ahead of Labor’s 23 per cent (down 1 point) and One Nation (down 2 points).
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Readers react negatively to the preference announcement by Jess Wilson regarding One Nation.
It shaped colonial-era Victoria and is remembered as being a "baptism of fire" for the Garden State. But few today know about the Black Thursday bushfire.
