Arabic version: ديفز تنضم إلى قائمة «أمة واحدة» لانتخابات المجلس التشريعي في نيو ساوث ويلز
According to The Guardian, former federal Liberal candidate Katherine Deves will stand for One Nation in the New South Wales Legislative Council election next year. Deves was one of four upper house candidates announced on Sunday by the party’s NSW leader, Mike Newman. The NSW election will be held on 13 March.
The other candidates named were Arnon Wither, a Hunter-region construction worker who works as an electorate officer for Senator Sean Bell; Manti Steele, a Dubbo farmer, teacher and mother of eight; and Daniel Hill, a surf lifesaver from the state’s south coast.
Newman described the candidates as “authentic”, “people from the real world” and not “career politicians”. One Nation has announced Newman as its only lower house candidate so far, in Cessnock, though he said the party would contest all 93 lower house seats. He said the party wanted candidates who understood business, cost-of-living pressures and cashflow.
Deves was selected by former prime minister Scott Morrison to contest the federal NSW seat of Warringah in 2022. Her candidacy drew controversy, including after she likened anti-trans activism to standing up against the Holocaust. She said she joined One Nation because she wanted to be part of the “rescue, recovery, and restoration of our nation”.
If elected, Deves said she would seek changes to state laws relating to “discrimination, hate speech, vilification, birth certificates, etc”. She said she wanted to restore language around biological sex and ensure women and girls had spaces for services and sport where it was inappropriate for males to be present. Deves announced she had joined One Nation in September.
