Can One Nation make it in South Australia? Liberal party fears peak humiliation at state election

(L-R) Labor’s Peter Malinauskas, One Nation’s Cory Bernardi and the Liberal leader, Ashton Hurn. South Australia goes to the polls on 21 March. Composite: Guardian Design

Ashton Hurn entered her campaign launch to the strains of Ain’t No Mountain High Enough.

Hurn, who stepped into the leadership of South Australia’s beleaguered Liberal party in December – about 100 days before the 21 March election – has consistently used mountain metaphors for the task ahead of her.