Former insiders and political observers alike think Queensland election result signals bell is tolling for volatile but doggedly resilient movement
left One Nation, the party did it tough,” recalls Jim Savage, who spent 11 years running the entity that had been founded in her flame-haired, firebrand image.into the Australian political psyche in the late 1990s. Her party won 11 seats at the 1998 Queensland election but within a few years it had all but collapsed. Hanson resigned in 2002 amid an
It was a moment that would reshape the country’s political landscape, with Hanson’s infamous warning to white Australia that it was in danger of being “swamped by Asians” –“We went in, as the 11 MPs, like lambs to the slaughter,” Knuth says. “And, sadly, the person we felt that would be guiding us, did more attacking than guiding.”
He says he has now walked away because the political movement he was told would bring accountability to politics was run more like “an incorporated body” than a political party. “James Ashby could have asked Stephen for lessons and worked with him. Stephen was already helping other local candidates, he was their best asset in that region and it was crazy to get rid of him.”
“It was highly predictable,” the newly re-elected member for the sprawling seat of Traeger in the far-flung north-west says. While the eponymous party he leads scored less than a third of One Nation’s primary vote statewide in 2024 and, the Katters – who ran in only 11 electorates, all in the state’s centre and north – still held three seats and will dominate a crossbench otherwise comprising only one Green and one independent., predicted that Ashby was unlikely to win Keppel but flagged he might, possibly as soon as next year, succeed Hanson as the federal senator for Queensland.
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