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FED:Coalition says One Nation's rise is chance for change

Top coalition MPs insist they're not worried about Pauline Hanson's skyrocketing popularity as analysts say the populist party is on the cusp of a political breakthrough.

Ahead of the One Nation leader's closely watched address to the National Press Club, her surging political fortunes have sent the opposition and the government scrambling to respond.

Nationals Leader Matt Canavan, whose Senate seat could be at risk from One Nation if recent opinion polls are borne out at the next election, said Senator Hanson's rise presented a "massive opportunity".

"What we can see at the polls is people want change," he told Nine's Today program on Wednesday.

"What we've got to do is convince people in the next year-and-a-half or two years that the Liberal and Nationals parties the one that can offer the change that will lift living standards, secure our border, get our energy resources going again and get industry back to this country.

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