Right wing politicians from One Nation to the Turnbull government's own backbench have heralded Donald Trump's electoral victory as a wake up call to mainstream politics and the major parties, predicting a coming democratic shock in Australia.

Coalition backbenchers Cory Bernardi and George Christensen said on Thursday Mr Trump's defeat of Hillary Clinton should serve as a lesson to Australia's political elite and the global establishment.



Speaking from the United Nations in New York, where he is on a three-month secondment, Senator Bernardi said he had foreseen the election of a figure like the combative Republican businessman for years and warned major political parties were wilfully ignoring voters in favour of their own power and self-interest.

He said Mr Trump's victory was "a validation of all I have been warning about for many years".

"The movement against the establishment political parties, who have consistently and willfully ignored the mainstream majority in favour of their own power and self-interest, is moving across the globe."