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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. [19]
At the 2004 Queensland state election, One Nation polled less than 5% of the vote and its sole elected representative, Rosa Lee Long, acted as an independent. One Nation attempted to defend its Queensland Senate seat at the 2004 federal election, but lost it (effectively to the National Party). Len Harris's Senate term expired on 30 June 2005.
Since it was formed in 1997, Pauline Hanson's One Nation has had a number of elected representatives at the federal, state and local level in Australia. [1] [2]As of June 2018, more than two-thirds of all elected One Nation members had left the party before the end of their term.
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. [78] One Nation held the Queensland seat of Lockyer from 1998 to 2004.
He is a member of One Nation and has been a Senator for Queensland since 2019. He also served in the Senate from 2016 to 2017. Roberts studied engineering at the University of Queensland. He was a mining engineer before entering politics, working in the coal industry including as general manager of the Gordonstone coal mine in central Queensland.
He was a member of the Queensland Legislative Assembly beginning in 2006, representing the electorates of Kawana (2006–2009) and Buderim (2009–2017). First elected for the Liberal Party, he joined the Liberal National Party in the 2008 merger, but switched to Pauline Hanson's One Nation in January 2017.
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It is understood One Nation was targeted because of its strong approach to reducing immigration numbers and a travel ban on countries with terrorism links. One Nation strongly supports the rights of lawful gun ownership within Australia and have clearly outlined our policy on our website. One Nation members have always complied with the law.'" [38]