One Nation has unveiled former Liberal candidate Katherine Deves as part of its Legislative Council ticket for the 2027 NSW election, marking her return to electoral politics four years after her controversial campaign for Warringah.
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NSW One Nation leader Mike Newman announced Deves, construction and mining worker Arnon Wither, Dubbo mother-of-eight Manti Steele and South Coast teacher Daniel Hill as the latest additions to the party’s upper house team.
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Unveiling the candidates on Sunday, Newman said they represented 'ordinary Australians' as opposed to political insiders.
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This is a team that reflects our membership.
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This is a team that bleeds orange,' he said.
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Deves was selected by then-prime minister Scott Morrison to challenge independent MP Zali Steggall in Warringah at the 2022 federal election.
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Her candidacy sparked a national row over social media posts about transgender women in sport, including a comparison between her advocacy and resistance against the Nazis, for which she later apologised.
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The new recruits join lead Legislative Council candidate Stuart Bonds, Singleton cattle farmer and coalminer, and Tamworth firearms manufacturer Jeff Bacon on One Nation’s upper house ticket.
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Speaking on Sunday, Deves criticised the growth of the state bureaucracy and diversity policies, referring to changes made to NSW Parliament workplace guidance in October concerning breastfeeding and gendered language.
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Katherine Deves (pictured) will run on the NSW One Nation Upper House ticket in 2027
Deves, a former Warringah candidate, was picked by then-prime minister Scott Morrison to challenge independent MP Zali Steggall at the 2022 federal election
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Australian households are worrying about how they're going to pay for Christmas, yet overpaid bureaucrats are debating whether men can breastfeed and become pregnant,' she said.
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'There are laws covering anti-discrimination, hate speech, vilification and birth certificates where we can restore clear and accurate language around biological sex and ensure women and girls have safe spaces in services and sport.'
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NSW Premier Chris Minns later intervened and reversed the change following backlash, calling it a return to 'commonsense'.
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Newman said One Nation intended to contest all 93 Legislative Assembly seats at the March 2027 election, with lower house candidates to be announced in the coming months.
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The election will be held on Saturday, March 13.
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'We've had 900 candidates to process.
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There are a lot of people to get through,' he said.
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The party's upper house team is headed by Bonds, who sparked controversy earlier this month after telling an anti-migration rally that Australians were 'being demographically replaced inside our own nation'.
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Premier Chris Minns condemned the remarks as 'frankly outrageous and racist', saying they relied on a conspiracy theory.
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One Nation was mentioned in the NSW Parliament 57 times this week despite having no seats
Labor is under pressure across a number of safe seats in the Hunter and Central Coast region, with Daily Mail understanding Labor's own polling shows they are in danger.
Labor and Minns have repeatedly targeted One Nation in Parliament, despite the party holding no seats in either NSW chamber.
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One Nation was mentioned about 57 times in the NSW Legislative Assembly in just three sitting days, while leader Newman was referenced about 10 times and candidate Bonds about 16 times, as Labor intensified its attacks ahead of the election.
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A Resolve poll published this week put One Nation's primary vote at 25 per cent of NSW voters, behind Labor on 30 per cent.
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