Values crucial to Hanson's vote

Tony Abbott, launching James Allan's book Making Australia Right, said, "a book like this can become the thinking person's justification for voting One Nation". Or a call to arms for the Coalition.

Politics is not just about the back-pocket nerve. Security and fairness loom large. For security read "fear of Islam", for fairness read "sick to death of too many takers".

As I write in Allan's book, "Selling stringency and insecurity is not going to win elections." There has to be a moral element to the Right.

None of this suggests that One Nation or other newcomers have any solutions, but they are entitled to search for votes.

Eventually, hopefully, if the politicians have any brains, the political market will shift to accommodate both the needs of the voters and the needs of the nation. Of course the two are not the same.