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One Nation – Queensland
Pauline Hanson's One Nation Queensland Division
Abbreviation
LeaderJames Ashby
Founders
Founded1997; 27 years ago (1997)
Registered
Merged intoCity Country Alliance (1999–2003)[a]
HeadquartersPinkenba, Brisbane, South East Queensland[1]
Membership (2009)<1,000 (claimed)[6][7][8]
Ideology
Political position
National affiliationPauline Hanson's One Nation
Colours
  •   Orange
  •   Blue
Legislative Assembly
0 / 93
House of Representatives
0 / 30
(Queensland seats)
Senate
2 / 12
(Queensland seats)
Website
qld.onenation.org.au

One Nation – Queensland, officially named Pauline Hanson's One Nation Queensland Division,[1] is the Queensland branch of Pauline Hanson's One Nation.

Background and history

1990s

The One Nation party was formally established on 11 April 1997 at the Civic Hall in Ipswich, South East Queensland.[14][15] Eight months later, in December, the party was officially registered in the state under the Electoral Act 1992.[2] Following registration polling figures began to surge for the party – being polled at 5% in the January/March 1998 poll and rising to 15% by the end of May.[16] In the following months (June) election, One Nation won over 22% of votes (439,121) and eleven seats in the Legislative Assembly.[17] With nearly 23% of the vote, One Nation gained a higher percentage of the vote than any other third party (i.e. not Labor or the Coalition) at the state or territory level since Federation. This was also the only election at which a third party gained more votes than both the Liberal Party and the National Party considered separately.

One Nation's success at the 1998 state election, argued Rae Wear in The Rise and Fall of One Nation, was a culmination of years of corruption, movement toward the centre, and abandonment of populism from the ruling Queensland Nationals. This led to a vacuum on the right, and a reaction to it, which One Nation succeeded in filling.[18] The views, style and success politically of the party, both state and federal, lead to Pauline Hanson being compared to figures like American conservative politician and commentator Pat Buchanan[19] and former French politician and leader of the National Front, Jean-Marie Le Pen.[9]

In February 1999, five of the eleven One Nation MPs elected into the Legislative Assembly left the party and sat as Independents.[20] In August 1999 the Queensland Supreme Court found that the party's registration was fraudulent.[20][21] The Electoral Commission of Queensland (ECQ) subsequently de-registered the party.[20][21] Just four months later, in December 1999, five of the remaining MPs elected into the Queensland Parliament for One Nation at the 1998 state election quit the party and formed the City Country Alliance (CCA).[20]

2000s

Just days prior to the close of electoral rolls for the 2001 state election, the party was re-registered.[20] In the shortest permissible election campaign (26 days), One Nation received 8.7% of the vote on election day, and retained three seats.[20][22] The 2001 election resulted in the biggest Labor landslide since 1935.[20] During the campaign Labor had depicted the National–Liberal Coalition as being beholden to, and secretively controlled by, One Nation.[20]

After losing two seats at the 2004 state election,[23] the party largely became dormant. It held onto one seat in the following election (2006),[24] having fielded a total of four candidates out of a possible eighty-nine across the state.[24] By the March 2009 state election the party fielded just two candidates and received less than 10,000 votes.[25] By the end of the year, One Nation had been de-registered by the Electoral Commission (ECQ) with the party not meeting the 500-member threshold to maintain its registration status.[7] State Secretary Rod Evans stated that the party would fight the decision in court, claiming the party had over 1,000 members.[7][8] The party's claim was dismissed in court in January 2010 and the ECQ decision was upheld.[26]

2010s and 2020s

By August 2011 the party had again regained registration with the goal of running in the 2012 state election.[4][27]

In November 2014, Hanson announced that she had returned as One Nation leader, prior to the party's announcement, following support from One Nation party members. She announced that she would contest the seat of Lockyer in the 2015 Queensland state election.[28] One Nation held the Queensland seat of Lockyer from 1998 to 2004. In February 2015, Hanson lost the seat by a narrow margin.[29][30][31][32]

In January 2017 Liberal National MP for Buderim and former Newman cabinet (2012–2015) minister, Steve Dickson, defected to One Nation.[33][34] Dickson stated his joining to the party was out of "sheer frustration" because he did not want to be a "yes person" for the major parties and also cited an amnesty for medicinal cannabis users to save children's lives.[34] LNP Leader (and Leader of the Opposition) Tim Nicholls accused Dickson of acting out of self-interest.[34] Upon defection Dickson became the first One Nation MP in over eight years. The same month (January) Dickson was announced as the party's new leader.[35] Just a week later Dickson was joined by former LNP member for Logan, Michael Pucci.[36][37] The party began to soar in the polls. In the following month (February) One Nation hit 23% of primary vote polling, up from 16% in the previous poll three months earlier.[38][39] The polling suggested that One Nation could pick up more than 20 seats in the Legislative Assembly and hold the balance of power.[38] However the party's election polling steadily declined in the lead-up to the 2017 state election and dropped to 13% by election day.[40] At the 2017 state election the party achieved its biggest result since their first election campaign in 1997/98. Fielding sixty-one candidates at the election, One Nation won over 13% of the vote, including the Central Queensland seat of Mirani.[41]

In 2019 party leader Steve Dickson resigned from the party after a three-year Al Jazeera English investigation caught him (Steve Dickson § National Rifle Association scandal),[42] alongside party official James Ashby,[43] seeking to facilitate up to AU$20 million dollars in funding from the National Rifle Association of America (NRA), an American gun rights and lobbying group.[44] In the investigation Dickson was shown visiting a strip club in Washington, D.C., which was reported by the The Washington Post as the reason for Dickson's resignation.[45]

At the 2020 state election One Nation fielded the most candidates in its history at a Queensland state election. The party put forward ninety candidates in total,[46] eleven more than the party's previous high in 1998 and was just three candidates short of contesting every seat at the election (93).[46] Much of the campaign and social media display, albeit restricted, was centred around the governments response to, and actions taken during, the COVID-19 pandemic.[47] Federal party leader Pauline Hanson threatened to take legal action over the state governments interstate border closure decision in May–June 2020[48][49] and received the backing of the Minister for Home Affairs Peter Dutton.[50] Hanson later proclaimed Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk to be a dictator.[51] An Australia Institute survey published in late May of 2020 revealed that 78% of Queenslanders support state border closures,[52] with One Nation voters showing the least support at 70%.[52] At the state election One Nation recorded an almost 7% drop in support compared to the previous election,[53][54] garnering 204,316 votes.[55] One Nation comfortably held onto its seat of Mirani picked up at the previous election.[56]

Party official James Ashby was appointed party leader in September ahead of the 2024 state election.[57] Ashby was involved in the party for years, having been Pauline Hanson's Chief of Staff since at least 2019.[58] The party's historic high candidate nomination for 2020 was eclipsed for 2024, fielding a candidate in every seat (93), alongside Labor, the Liberal Nationals and the Greens.[59] The party's main campaign policy was tackling youth crime, particularly in Townsville in the state's far north,[59] and health.[60]

Electoral results

One Nation vote strength at the 1998 state election.
Legislative Assembly
Election Leader Votes % Seats +/– Government
1998[17] Heather Hill 439,121 22.68
11 / 89
 Increase 11 Crossbench
2001[22] No leader 179,076 8.69
3 / 89
 Decrease 8 Crossbench
2004[23] Bill Flynn 104,980 4.88
1 / 89
 Decrease 2 Crossbench
2006[24] No leader 13,207 0.60
1 / 89
 Steady Crossbench
2009[61] 9,038 0.38
0 / 89
 Decrease 1 Extra-parliamentary
2012[62] 2,525 0.10
0 / 89
 Steady Extra-parliamentary
2015[63] 24,111 0.92
0 / 89
 Steady Extra-parliamentary
2017[64] Steve Dickson 371,193 13.73
1 / 93
 Increase 1 Crossbench
2020[65] No leader 204,316 7.12
1 / 93
 Steady Crossbench
2024 James Ashby TBD TBD
0 / 93
 Decrease 1 Extra-parliamentary

Leaders

No. Leader Took office Left office Tenure
1 Heather Hill 21 May 1998[66] 23 June 1998[67][68] 1 month and 2 days
2 Bill Feldman 23 June 1998[67][68] 10 December 1999[69] 1 year, 5 months and 17 days
3 Bill Flynn 6 March 2001[70] 7 February 2004[70] 2 years, 11 months and 1 day
4 Steve Dickson 24 January 2017[71][35] 30 April 2019[72][73] 2 years, 3 months and 7 days
5 James Ashby 20 September 2024[74][57] Incumbent 1 month and 25 days

Members of parliament

Current MPs

Federal Parliament

Former MPs

Federal Parliament

State Parliament

Notes

  1. ^ The City Country Alliance (CCA) was a party created by Queensland MPs that defected from the Queensland branch of One Nation in 1999.[5]

References

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  2. ^ a b c "Queensland Election 1998 – ECQ" (PDF). ecq.qld.gov.au. Electoral Commission of Queensland. 16 September 1998. p. 17.
  3. ^ "Details of Polling at Queensland General Election" (PDF). March 2007. p. A4.
  4. ^ a b "One Nation re-registered as political party to contest 2012 state election". The Courier-Mail. News Corp Australia. 12 August 2011.
  5. ^ "Pauline Hanson's letter to One Nation members". gwb.com.au. City Country Alliance. 18 January 2000.
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  36. ^ Robertson, Joshua (31 January 2017). "Fourth Queensland LNP member Michael Pucci defects to One Nation". Guardian Australia. Guardian Media Group.
  37. ^ Silva, Kristian (31 January 2017). "Former LNP MP Michael Pucci joins Pauline Hanson's One Nation as state campaign director". ABC News.
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  41. ^ Williams, Paul D. (2018). "One, two or many Queenslands?: Disaggregating the regional vote at the 2017 Queensland state election". Australasian Parliamentary Review. Griffith University: 67.
  42. ^ Muller, Rodger (25 March 2019). "I went undercover to expose the US, Australia gun lobby". Al Jazeera English. Al Jazeera. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020.
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  49. ^ "Pauline Hanson threatens to challenge state coronavirus border closures in the High Court". Special Broadcasting Service. 21 May 2020.
  50. ^ Farhart, Claudia (22 May 2020). "Peter Dutton backs Pauline Hanson's legal challenge to Queensland's border closure". Special Broadcasting Service.
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  74. ^ "James Ashby to Lead One Nation Team in Queensland". onenation.org.au. 19 September 2024.
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