Pauline's United Australia Party was an Australian

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launched by One Nation founder

Pauline Hanson Pauline Lee Hanson (''née'' Seccombe, formerly Zagorski; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation, a right-wing populist political party. Hanson has represented Queensland in the Australian ...

on 24 May 2007 after disputes within her former party led to her separation from it. It was registered by the Australian Electoral Commission on 20 September 2007. The party draws on the name but is unrelated to the historic United Australia Party which existed from 1931 to 1945. Hanson formed the party in order to ensure that her name appeared above the line (as per the voting method in Australian federal elections) rather than simply below the line amongst a list of independent candidates. Hanson stood for the

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in the state of

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during the

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, in which she received 101,461 first preference votes, representing 4.2% of the statewide vote.

Brian Burston Brian Burston (born 25 February 1948) is an Australian who was a former Senator for New South Wales from 2016 to 2019, originally representing One Nation. After falling out with party leader Pauline Hanson over company tax cuts, Burston left O ...

, Hanson's former One Nation adviser and future Senator, also stood for the Senate in the state of

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and received 39,807 votes, which was nearly 1% of the total votes. Hanson voluntarily de-registered the party in March 2010 after announcing her intention to relocate to the

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. Her planned emigration did not occur, but the party remained de-registered.

Federal parliament

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