Party’s NSW leader Mike Newman says contenders are ‘people from the real world’ and not ‘career politicians’
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The failed federal Liberal candidate Katherine Deves, who campaigned to exclude transgender women from women’s sport, will stand for One Nation at next year’s New South Wales election.
Deves was among four NSW Legislative Council candidates announced by One Nation’s NSW leader, Mike Newman, on Sunday.
The other candidates were Arnon Wither, a construction worker from the Hunter region who works as an electorate officer for Senator Sean Bell; Manti Steele, a farmer, teacher and mother of eight from Dubbo; and Daniel Hill, a surf lifesaver from the state’s south coast.
Newman said on Sunday the upper house candidates were “authentic”, “people from the real world” and not “career politicians”.
One Nation has only announced a single lower house candidate – Newman, in the electorate of Cessnock – but he said the party would run candidates in all 93 lower house seats.
“We want to make sure that these people bleed orange, and like I said, they’re all from the real world,” he said.
“That’s the that’s the type of person we’re aiming at … people from the real world who understand business, who understand their pinch points and pain points, understand…
