Pauline Hanson was elected an independent MP in 1996 when she was dumped by the Liberal Party. One Nation's disgraced candidate Steve Dickson will also remain on the ballot papers but is unlikely to be as lucky in 2019.
Dumped One Nation Senate candidate Steve Dickson is unlikely to repeat party boss Pauline Hanson's feat of being elected to Parliament despite being dumped from her party.
“They are eligible to be elected. Whether they take their seat [if elected] and what banner they sit under is not a matter for the AEC.”second column from the left on the Senate ballot paperBut an expert in Australian voting trends said it was unlikely One Nation could receive enough votes to win two Senate quotas in Queensland to have Mr Dickson elected.
Professor McAllister said there were some examples where people died after being chosen as candidates and still received votes.strong grassroots local campaign when 20,000 locals chose her“So it does happen, but Tasmania has a small ballot paper with fewer names on it,” Professor McAllister said.“My impression was that he didn’t have much of a chance of getting a quota anyway in the Senate.”
Professor McAllister said more than 90 per cent of Senate voters voted by ticking the party, rather than searching for individual candidates, on the bottom half of the senate paper.voting trends research project said the most noticeable ongoing issue in Australia’s democracy was a lack of trust in politicians.
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