Will One Nation’s ‘orange wave’ hit South Australia?

Today, InDaily editor Belinda Willis on the state election that may be a whitewash for Labor, but a warning for everyone else.

Mar 21, 2026, updated Mar 21, 2026

South Australia does not usually wake up on election day at the centre of the national mood. But this morning, a contest that looks settled on paper is carrying a much stranger energy.

Labor, under Premier Peter Malinauskas, is expected to win today’s state election comfortably.

The real movement is happening elsewhere; in the noise around One Nation, the protest vote in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis gathering around the once marginal party, and the possibility that a state election could end up telling us something bigger about where Australian politics is heading.

Today, InDaily SA editor Belinda Willis on the state election that may be a whitewash for Labor, but a warning for everyone else.

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