One Nation (Australia)
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Pauline Hanson's One Nation
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| President | Pauline Hanson |
| General Secretary | James Ashby |
| Founded | 11 April 1997 |
| Headquarters | 2/38 Hudson Road, Albion, Queensland |
| Newspaper | The Nation |
| Youth wing | Young Nation (defunct) |
| Membership (2015) |
 5000 |
| Ideology | |
| Colours | Yellow |
| Slogan | Never give up, we won't! |
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Country Party One Nation Queensland One Nation New South Wales Pauline Hanson's United Australia Party |
| Senate |
4 / 76
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| Queensland Parliament |
1 / 89
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| Western Australian Legislative Council |
3 / 36
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Pauline Hanson's One Nation (also One Nation, One Nation Party, ONP and PHON) 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. 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.
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