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Frank Hough (boxer)
Francis Carson Hough (born 12 April 1944) is a former Australian politician who remains politically active. Born in Subiaco, Western Australia, Subiaco, Western Australia, he was a self-employed business proprietor before entering politics. In 2001, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for Electoral region of Agricultural, Agricultural Region as a member of One Nation (Australia), One Nation. After the resignation from the party of Paddy Embry in 2003, he and John Fischer (politician), John Fischer were One Nation's only MPs in Western Australia. On 1 June 2004, he and Fischer both resigned from the party to sit as independent (politician), independents. On 30 November 2004, Hough and Embry co-founded the New Country Party, and contested the 2005 Western Australian state election, 2005 state election as such. Both were defeated. He ran as the Palmer United Party candidate for the Division of Pearce at the 2013 Australian federal election, 2013 federal ele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Country Party
The New Country Party was a minor political party in Australia. It emerged from the internal divisions of the One Nation Party in Queensland and Western Australia in 2003 (in a similar fashion to the City Country Alliance) and was registered by the Australian Electoral Commission on 9 January 2004. Two Western Australian state upper house MPs elected on One Nation tickets, Paddy Embry and Frank Hough, joined the party and were its only serving MPs until their defeat in the Western Australian state election in 2005. In the leadup to the October 2004 Federal election, there was some suggestion that Queensland independent MP Bob Katter would run on the New Country Party ticket. However, he did not do so. The party ran Senate tickets in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, where it got 0.18%, 0.13% and 0.16% of the vote respectively, and obtained 0.08% of the vote nationwide in the lower house. In February 2005, the party contested the Western Australian state el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |