Abortion and nuclear dump form thrust of Hanson’s new tilt at SA
Growing South Australian membership has inspired a new One Nation push into the state, with local allies already mapping their election paths.
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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation has laid the foundations to run in the South Australian election next year.
The party, which last ran in an SA election in 2006, hopes to win several Lower House seats and also have a presence in the Upper House.
Senator Hanson told The Advertiser One Nation membership has continued to grow in SA over the past five years.
“(This has) resulted in a call to register the party ahead of the next state election and preselect a number of candidates who will run in both the Assembly and Legislative Council,” she said.
The party registered too late for the 2018 state election.
Former SA Senate candidate Jennifer Game, a policy adviser to Ms Hanson, is leading local campaign efforts for the state election in March 2022.
She submitted the party’s application to the Electoral Commission last month and hopes to win preselection for a state seat.
“We hope to be present at least in the Upper House and a few Lower House seats. It will depend on the quality of the candidates,” Ms Game, 68, said.
She said One Nation’s focus would be to block Federal Government plans to build a radioactive waste dump near Kimba.
The party would also push for more jobs in SA’s mining and agricultural industries.
Ms Game also expressed concerns about the Termination of Pregnancy Bill, which is due to be debated in the Lower House when parliament returns next month. “I am shocked,” she said.
“To think they want to take medical requirements away and simply make it a choice is horrible.”
Meanwhile, SA Greens MLC Tammy Franks has announced 29-year-old Yesha Joshi as the party’s second candidate for the Upper House.
She will join Robert Simms as the other Greens candidate, replacing outgoing MLC Mark Parnell, in the fight to win the balance of power.
And questions remain over who will run for the seat of Waite, currently held by independent MP Sam Duluk.
The Advertiser understands the Liberal Party has not yet opened applications for candidates in the seat, which includes Blackwood, Eden Hills and Coromandel Valley.
Mr Duluk was expelled from the party after he was accused of slapping SA-BEST MLC Connie Bonaros on the bottom at a Christmas party.
Originally published as Abortion and nuclear dump form thrust of Hanson’s new tilt at SA
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