One Nation Party ex Wiki
Pauline Hanson's One Nation (also One Nation, One Nation Party
and ONP) is a nationalist,
right-wing populist party in
Australia. One Nation was founded in 1997, by then-member
of parliament
Pauline Hanson and her advisors
David Ettridge and
David Oldfield after Hanson was disendorsed as a federal candidate for
the
Liberal Party of Australia. The disendorsement came before the
1996 federal election because of comments she made about
Indigenous Australians [ aka
Aboriginals ]. Hanson sat as an
independent for one year before forming One Nation.
Federally, no One Nation candidate has ever been elected to the House of Representatives (Hanson was already a member of the House when One Nation was formed). However, one party candidate was elected to the Senate in the 1998 federal election, and four One Nation senators were elected in the 2016 federal election. In state politics, however, One Nation has performed better. At the 1998 Queensland state election the party gained more than 22% of the vote in Queensland's unicameral legislative assembly, winning 11 of the 89 seats. David Oldfield was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a One Nation candidate, but he was expelled from the party and later formed the unsuccessful splinter group, One Nation NSW. Three members were elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council.
One Nation changed its name back to "Pauline Hanson's One Nation" in June 2015.
At the 2016 election the party polled 4.3 per cent (+3.8) of the nation-wide primary vote in the Senate. Only Queensland polled higher for the party than their nation-wide percentage − the party polled 9.2 per cent (+8.6) of the primary vote in that state. Pauline Hanson (QLD) and three other One Nation candidates − Malcolm Roberts (QLD), Brian Burston (NSW) and Rod Culleton (WA) were elected to the Senate. Elected to the 3rd Queensland Senate spot, as per convention Hanson is serving a six-year term while the three other One Nation Senators who were elected in the last half of spots are serving three-year terms. On 18 December 2016, Culleton resigned from Pauline Hanson's One Nation to sit as an independent Senator.
The party has a strongly nationalist and conservative platform. Hanson and other party members have denied claims that the party is racist. Hanson says that "criticism is not racism" about her statements on immigration and race. Hanson has also said that she enjoys the company of other ethnicities and welcomes people to Australia wherever their origin, but does not want other cultures to overly influence Australia.
Pauline Won’t Go to Trump Inauguration
Australia’s famous One Nation party leader
was not, as falsely claimed by the controlled media, issued a formal
invitation to attend Donald Trump’s presidential inauguration, but was
offered tickets by a party advisor who also worked on the Trump campaign.
The invitation was announced by Hanson—well-known for her anti-immigration policies—on her Twitter account, where she wrote “Would you believe it? I have been gifted tickets to the Presidential Inauguration Ceremony of @realDonaldTrump — What an honour!”
Although this tweet was wrongly presented by the controlled media as an “invitation” by Donald Trump, this was not the case.
In reality, the tickets to the inauguration were obtained by a party economic advisor who also was an advisor to Trump.
Hanson famously drank champagne on the steps of Parliament House the day Trump was elected.
Later, Hanson tweeted, “Because of work commitments I’ll not be attending Donald Trump’s inauguration. My duties to the people of Queensland & Australia come first.”
The tickets were then given to One Nation Senator Brian Burston, who will attend Trump’s inauguration—but not in any official capacity.
The Australian ambassador to the U.S., Joe Hockey, will officially represent Australia at the U.S. presidential inauguration on January 20.
No foreign delegations have been invited to the January 20 inauguration, and governments will only be represented by chiefs of diplomatic missions in Washington, a U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade spokesman told media last week.
Meanwhile, the political field in Australia continues to be shaken up by a revitalized One Nation party, with the latest development being the announcement by former Newman government minister Steve Dickson that he had resigned from the Liberal National Party (LNP) and had joined One Nation, giving the minor party its first new representative in the state of Queensland’s hung parliament.
Dickson, the Member for Buderim, confirmed
he had resigned from the LNP, and was announced as joining One Nation at a
press conference in his Sunshine Coast electorate last Friday.
The One Nation party’s policy on immigration states that the right to enter Australia must take cognizance of the country’s “right of discretion in protecting our economy, social cohesion and cultural heritage.”
In addition, the party’s stance on illegal immigration is that anyone who has entered illegally, or with false documents, is a criminal and cannot be tolerated. The party has also called for a review of all the cases involving invaders granted residency after illegally entering the country.
The party is also firmly opposed to the Islamization of Australia, saying that the country “is now seeing big changes in the suburbs which are predominately Muslim. Some of these suburbs include Lakemba, Auburn, Bankstown, Punchbowl and Villawood in Western Sydney. Tolerance toward other Australians or non-Muslim migrants is no longer the case. Our law courts are disrespected and prisons have become breeding grounds for extremist Muslims to radicalise inmates.”
To halt the Islamification of Australia, One Nation would outlaw Halal certification—a policy which would have the practical effect of forcing all observant Muslims to leave.
Pauline Hanson ex Wiki
Pauline Lee Hanson (née Seccombe, formerly Zagorski; born
27 May 1954) is an Australian politician.
Hanson first entered politics as a member of Ipswich City Council in 1994. She joined the Liberal Party of Australia in 1995 and was preselected for the Division of Oxley at the 1996 federal election, but was disendorsed shortly before the election. Although listed on the ballot paper as the Liberal Party candidate, she won Oxley as an independent.
In 1997, Hanson co-founded Pauline Hanson's One Nation, a right-wing political party with a populist and conservative platform. She lost her seat at the 1998 federal election.
After leaving federal parliament, Hanson contested several state and federal elections as the leader of One Nation, as the leader of Pauline Hanson's United Australia Party and as an independent. She was expelled from One Nation in 2002. A Brisbane District Court jury found Hanson guilty of electoral fraud in 2003 though the convictions were later overturned by three judges on the Queensland Court of Appeal. As a result of the convictions, Hanson spent 11 weeks in jail prior to the appeal being heard.
Hanson rejoined One Nation in 2013, becoming leader again the following year. At the 2016 Australian federal election she was elected to the Senate, representing Queensland, together with three other senators of her party.