Controversial Neighbours favourite reveals surprise plans to run for senate

She wooed Dr Karl on Neighbours, and now Nicola Charles wants to win over voters as she prepares a run at a Victorian senate seat in next year’s federal election.

Nicola Charles plans to run for a senate seat in next year’s federal election. Picture: Jason Edwards

From Ramsay Street to Parliament House, former Neighbours bombshell Nicola Charles has a new role in her sights, revealing her political ambitions.

Charles played Sarah Beaumont — one of Erinsborough’s most memorable characters who caused a stir in an affair with notorious TV love rat Dr Karl — and plans to run for a senate seat in next year’s federal election under the Great Australian Party banner.

“I am being mentored by Rod Culleton who is the leader of the party and is a former senator along with a couple of constitutional barristers and lawyers,” Melbourne-based Charles said.

Charles has courted controversy in recent years and railed against lockdown rules and vaccine mandates during the pandemic with her views resulting in her being cancelled.

Charles courted controversy throughout Victoria’s lockdowns. Pic supplied by Mercedes Benz.

Nicola Charles as Sarah Beaumont in Neighbours.

Nicola Charles from an Inside Sport shoot in the 1990s. Picture: John Davis

She plans to campaign on privacy issues, the influence of foreign interests on Australians and is strongly opposed to the Digital ID bill.

“If I get into the senate I will do everything I can to have this bill repealed,” Charles, an actor, author and activist, said.

“Australia is under attack by greedy globalists and unelected outside foreign interests.

“Australians are seeing a subversion of their democracy take place in favour of corporate profits.

“I have no concerns for myself or my career anymore. I genuinely believe I owe Australia a debt of gratitude because I was not born in Australia, but I have been 100 per cent made in Australia.

“For me to stand by and watch what is being done to this country and her people is heartbreaking and I am not prepared to let it happen. I will go down fighting. I have been here for over 30 years. I chose this country. I chose it to live and work in and I chose it to raise my children in.

“Governments have responsibilities and citizens have rights, not the other way around.”

One hurdle for her political ambitions is that Charles holds British citizenship, an issue she will need to resolve.