PHON to contest seats in next QLD election

[Black Orchid]

One Nation to 'initially' contest 36 seats in next Queensland election

Former LNP member Neil Symes has emerged as one of 36 One Nation candidates to run at the next Queensland election.

Mr Symes, then 23, was elected to the seat of Lytton in 2012 on the back of Campbell Newman's landslide LNP state election victory in 2012.

On Sunday at the North Lanes Golf Club One Nation's state president senator Pauline Hanson will formally announce it will begin its push "to win" the next Queensland election by standing "initially" candidates in 36 of Queensland's 89 electorates.

Most of the seats are outside Brisbane – except Bulimba, held by Labor's Di Farmer, which will be contested by Tristan Brown for One Nation.

One Nation's first electorates are in Ipswich, then largely on the Gold and Sunshine coasts, their hinterlands and regional Queensland. The party's long-serving state secretary Jim Savage, who will run in the seat of Lockyer now held by the retiring LNP MP Ian Rickuss, said the party was aware of suspicion it could collapse with infighting.

"I'm one of the originals and Pauline has put me in charge of having a good look at who we select as candidates," he said. "We are very, very aware that when we were elected back in 1998, we had some candidates who were less than successful," Mr Savage said.

In 1998, on the back of Pauline Hanson's first high-profile push into federal politics - One Nation won 11 seats in Queensland Parliament, but subsequently collapsed and divided into the poorly-conceived City Country Alliance.

Mr Savage said – himself aside – there were no candidates linked the 1998 One Nation collapse.

"There is nobody from those days," Mr Savage said.

"We have mostly new people. We have six or seven candidates who ran in the recent federal election and the rest are newbies," he said.

One of the new candidates is their Bundaberg candidate Dr Jane Truscott, who chairs Queensland's $70million Rural Locum Assistance Program, providing regional workforce and social welfare assistance.

Dr Truscott has told News Corp that while some of the things that US president-elect Donald Trump has said were "socially inapproporiate", he had nevertheless provided a voice for people who had previously not been heard.

Mr Savage said One Nation was not committed to standing candidates in every Queensland electorate.

"We will only contest a seat if we can find a good candidate. If we can't, well we won't," he said.

Mr Savage said One Nation was concentrating less on ex-mayors and people switching from other parties than an "community issues", "ratepayers associations" and "community projects".

The party's announcement it will contest 36 Queensland seats was met with frank assessments by both the Liberal National party and The Greens.

Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls on Sunday morning released a statement noting that standing for government meant more than simply opposing all policies.

"It's no good just being 'anti' everything," Mr Nicholls said.

"You have got to have workable solutions. "

Queensland Greens' convenor Andrew Bartlett, who was an Australian Democrats senator from 1997 to 2008, said voters should remember the performance of One Nation when they were elected to 11 seats in the Queensland Parliament in 1998. The Greens are trying to win their first seat in Queensland Parliament.

"Queenslanders gave them 11 seats in the 1998 election, but instead of standing up for ordinary working voters, they tore themselves apart with infighting," Mr Bartlett said.

"The same thing happened when One Nation won seats in the West Australian state election a few years later."

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has not called an election. Observers suggest an election will be called in the first half of 2017 to break the close breakdown of seats in Queensland's 89-seat parliament.

One Nation will contest: Mudgeeraba, Currumbin, Burnett, Ipswich West, Broadwater, Gympie, Hervey Bay, Pumicestone, Albert, Mermaid Beach, Callide, Cairns, Maryborough, Bundaberg, Lockyer, Redcliffe, Kallangur, Condamine, Gregory, Keppel, Mansfield, Mulgrave, Pine Rivers, Caloundra, Beaudesert, Morayfield, Coomera, Murrumba Downs, Bundamba, Warrrego, Mirani, Nicklin, Lytton, Glasshouse, Bulimba and Ipswich.

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensl ... tdhka.html

It seems like PHON are finally starting to get their act together. Mr Bartlett et al will be eating their words at the next QLD election if PHON stays on track.

[Outlaw Yogi]

The Hanson crew could easily take several seats in central Qld, including Bundaberg. Which tends to swing back and forth between Nats (now LNP) and Labor. Bundy has mass unemployment, with most farm jobs going to backpackers, so is ripe for the picking [pun intended].

The supermarkets screw the agents (at fruit market), and the agents screw the farmers, and the only ones the farmers can screw are the pickers. Locals know their rights, where as backpackers tolerate being scammed to obtain the extra year's visa. If they get an employer to sign off on 3 months work they get a visa for 2 rather than 1 year.

Backpacker hostel owners do deals with farmers so the farm employs backpackers from their hostel only.
Farms cheat on the pay too. The pay will be short and the pay slip fudged, making out the missing money went in tax.
Another one is they sign you upto 2 companies. Technically they're supposed to pay overtime for every hour of 40 hours worked, but rig it so you work 40 hours for one company and the remaining hours for another company. It's not legal, but it's common place.

Several years ago bashing backpackers was a local sport. It became so prevalent/common Bundy got a bad name in the Euro travel mags, and hordes of backpackers gave Bundy a wide berth, which affected the local economy, so they had a crack down on public assaults.
But still to this day plenty of working backpackers give Bundy backpacker hostels (there's heaps of them, all charging around $200 or more a week for a bunk in a dorm + fuel charges for a bus to work) a miss, get a camper van from a capital city and camp wherever they can. Any night of the week you can go into the road side rest area at Gin Gin and there'll be upto 100 vans in there - aprox half grey nomads and half backpackers.

When locals do manage to get a picking job it's piece work termed "contract" despite no contract being signed.
Piece work picking (paid for volume, not hours) is the way to go if fit and experienced (on citrus I get $180 a tonne)
but most backpackers are uni students who've never had a job, let alone done manual labour.
I've seen backpackers earning only $40 a day numerous times.

So will Hanson's crew fix the situation? ... Not likely, but it's an opportunity to give the major parties a kick up the arse.

[Rorschach]

Well they ain't the brightest looking bunch, but as they say you can't judge a book by its cover.

Hopefully if Hanson and her Party get members into parliament, then they will do good things and progress the party as a voice of the people.

[Outlaw Yogi]

Anna Palaszczuk's Qld Labor govt snuck in compulsory preferential voting (must number 1 to 6 minimum above the line, or every square below) thinking it would reduce LNP votes, but has pretty much guaranteed One Nation state seats in Qld at the next election, so no early election.

At the last Federal electoral boundaries change the Hinkler-Burnett (Bundaberg region) boundaries North and South were both moved South, taking in part of the Gympie redneck zone, which favoured the Nats but now is likely to Give One Nation a Federal seat.

And now One Nation has a chance of taking Townsville too ...

Senator Pauline Hanson to challenge defence on land acquisitions west of Townsville

http://www.townsvillebulletin.com.au/ne ... c1ceb3a256

SENATOR Pauline Hanson has offered hope to North Queensland graziers that proposed Defence land acquisitions are not “set in stone”, saying she will take their concerns back to Canberra.

Senator Hanson met with about 15 of 23 affected families at Forest Home Station yesterday where she said she had recently met with Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan, who she said assured her Defence were “still looking around” at land they may wish to acquire.

It comes as the Department of Defence provided graziers with a draft map of proposed boundaries of a substantial increase in the size of the Townsville Field Training Area, planned under the $2.25 billion Singapore partnership.

Senator Hanson said she believed two alternative sites proposed by graziers – 120km southwest of the existing area, near Pentland, and a second option near Greenvale – would make more “common sense” than taking valuable farming land.

“I can understand (the Singapore deal) will bring a lot of money to the area and benefits to Queensland but not to the detriment of farmers,” she said.

“This is important to Australia and Queensland … growing produce and cattle so we need this (land) because if we lost it we will never get it back,” she said.

“I will take this back (to Canberra) and have further talks with relevant Senators and if I have to, to the Prime Minister.”

David Nicholas, a father of six, owns Paynes Lagoon and said he knew he was “right in the firing line” but has pleaded with Defence to properly consider the alternative sites.

“This land acquisition business is stealing my children’s future … there is no other way to put it, and it’s also destroying the social fabric of this district,” Mr Nicholas said.

His son Mac, 16, said when he finished school he wanted to learn the trade and then take over his family’s farm. “It’s very upsetting knowing (acquisitions) could go ahead but I think we’ve got a good fighting chance,” he said.

Another landholder said if his property was acquired it would cripple his existing business operations.

[IQS.RLOW]

QLD has always been a basket case as evidenced by the plethora of fringe leftists like Aussie on forums and Twitter.
They were only ever going to activate and swing the pendulum to the right and swung it fucking hard they have.

You will see the hard right returned to influence and they in turn will use their influence to temper the centre right parties like the LNP to dump their inclination to try and increase their vote by pandering to the left.

In any case it's a swing to the right and that is a win.

[LEFTWINGER supreme]

Even Bernadi and the sausage man christen ftard can see the writing on the wall as they talk of defecting , rtards , how will anybody be able to tell Labor and Liberal apart when the rwnjs aren't pulling the strings ?

[Redneck]

QLD has always been a basket case as evidenced by the plethora of fringe leftists like Aussie on forums and Twitter.
They were only ever going to activate and swing the pendulum to the right and swung it fucking hard they have.

You will see the hard right returned to influence and they in turn will use their influence to temper the centre right parties like the LNP to dump their inclination to try and increase their vote by pandering to the left.

In any case it's a swing to the right and that is a win.

You would be in trouble IQ with swing!

2" doesnt create much of an arc!

[IQS.RLOW]

Even Bernadi and the sausage man christen ftard can see the writing on the wall as they talk of defecting , rtards , how will anybody be able to tell Labor and Liberal apart when the rwnjs aren't pulling the strings ?

Libs have been infected by leftists, mainly via NSW and they have pulled the party to the left which is why they have Turnbull as leader and a one seat majority. If the party can't be steered back to its roots, the honourable thing to do would be to start a new Conservative party which would hold balance of power and drag the infected Libs back to the right and eventually choke the life out of the leftards in the LNP.

[Redneck]

the honourable thing to do would be to start a new Conservative party

Lets hope they do !

Disunity is death! Here comes the demise of the Conalition!

Woopeee!!!!

[Rorschach]

PHON has always done well in QLD... Hanson is a Queenslander of course and QLD is a very parochial state.

Candidates must be better vetted by the party. But until they prove they are stable and worthwhile they will be left with the dreggs of the original party and in QLD there are lots of fringe elements wanting to ride into Parliament on Hanson's coat-tails.

If the party achieves some success and shows stability it will remain a power and continue to grow. Of course we remember all parties put PHON last in the past as they were seen as a political threat. This will probably happen again.