One Nation NSW was a minor Australian political party that operated exclusively in the state of

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(NSW) from 2000 to 2007. The party was a splinter group of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON). It was a socially conservative

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party with policies similar to that of the One Nation party in

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and

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. These included reduced immigration levels, an end to Australia’s policy of multiculturalism, and an end to what it perceived to be overly favourable treatment of

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. The party arose as a result of internal divisions within PHON in October 2000, after

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 ...

expelled David Oldfield, co-founder of PHON and the sole representative of that party in the NSW State Parliament. Hanson accused Oldfield of abusing his authority, usurping power, and setting up alternative political parties under his control. His expulsion created even more instability in the party, which was constantly embroiled in scandal and internal strife; as a result, One Nation NSW was formed in 2001. The new party took advantage of electoral registration laws to register itself as a political party under the "One Nation" name with the

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, and achieved registration in April 2002. The effect of this was that the original PHON party was now unable to gain registration for NSW elections, and therefore any candidates which that party chose to represent them at state elections could not use the party name. Consequently, PHON could only contest federal elections in NSW under the "One Nation" banner, while the Oldfield group could present itself as "One Nation" only at state elections. One Nation NSW encountered some internal ruptures in 2002-2003 during the preselection process for the March 2003 NSW election.

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 ...

, a former National Director of PHON, had been preselected by a party conference in December 2002 for 1st place on the party ticket for the election to the Upper House, the Legislative Council (LC). Oldfield, however, had intended that his wife, Lisa Oldfield, secure this position. Therefore, he summoned a second meeting of party members in January 2003, which saw a reversal of the December decision to give Burston the top spot on the ticket in favour of Lisa Oldfield. Burston and his supporters filed legal action, and the court upheld the initial party decision of December, which gave Burston the leading position on the ticket. At the March election, One Nation NSW achieved only 1.5% of the primary vote compared to 6.3% for PHON in the previous 1999 election that saw Oldfield elected. This result was substantially below the 4.55% election quota, and consequently, Burston failed to get elected. Apart from the internal feuding which affected the party’s performance was the fact that Hanson also ran in the election as a grouped independent with support from what was left of PHON, and this fractured the One Nation vote. Hanson polled slightly better than Burston’s group, achieving 1.9%, and narrowly missed gaining the last LC spot. After the 2003 election, One Nation NSW kept a very low profile; the party did not maintain a website and drew very little media attention. Consequently, many Australian political commentators were not aware that two separate One Nation parties continued to operate in NSW at this time. Oldfield resigned from the party in December 2004 to serve the remainder of his term as an independent. His term expired in March 2007. One Nation NSW met all the necessary registration criteria to achieve registration for the March 2007 NSW election. However, the party decided not to contest that election and was deregistered afterwards.

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{{Reflist Political parties established in 2000 Political parties in New South Wales 2000 establishments in Australia Political parties disestablished in 2007 2007 disestablishments in Australia Pauline Hanson's One Nation breakaway groups Social conservative parties Conservative parties in Australia Defunct nationalist parties Defunct conservative parties Australian nationalist parties Right-wing parties Right-wing politics in Australia

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