One Nation announced its upper house ticket featuring Katherine Deves, Arnon Wither, Manti Steele, and Daniel Hill for the upcoming New South Wales election. Party leader Mike Newman, who is contesting the lower house seat of Cessnock, confirmed the organization intends to run candidates across all 93 Legislative Assembly electorates. Deves plans to target laws regarding discrimination, hate speech, and birth certificates to enforce language centered on biological sex.
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One Nation is targeting everyday voters by selecting working-class candidates to address…: One Nation is targeting everyday voters by selecting working-class candidates to address business and cost-of-living concerns.
A central policy objective for the ticket involves rolling back government initiatives ti…: A central policy objective for the ticket involves rolling back government initiatives tied to diversity, vilification laws, and net zero.
The party intends to pursue legislative changes that mandate biological sex distinctions…: The party intends to pursue legislative changes that mandate biological sex distinctions on official state records and safeguard female-only spaces.
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The failed federal Liberal candidate Katherine Deves, who campaigned to exclude transgender women from women’s sport, will stand for One Nation at next year’s New South Wales election.
Deves was among four NSW Legislative Council candidates announced by One Nation’s NSW leader, Mike Newman, on Sunday.
The other candidates were Arnon Wither, a construction worker from the Hunter region who works as an electorate officer for Senator Sean Bell; Manti Steele, a farmer, teacher and mother of eight from Dubbo; and Daniel Hill, a surf lifesaver from the state’s south coast.
The NSW election will be held on 13 March.
Newman said on Sunday the upper house candidates were “authentic”, “people from the real world” and not “career politicians”.
One Nation has only announced a single lower house candidate – Newman, in the electorate of Cessnock – but he said the party would run candidates in all 93 lower house seats.
“We want to make sure that these people bleed orange, and like I said, they’re all from the real world,” he said.
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