biography
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| (1954– )
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| biography:
| Politician, born in Brisbane, Queensland, NE Australia. She stood as a Liberal candidate for Oxley in the Queensland parliament in 1966, but backing was withdrawn when she made derogatory remarks about Aborigines. She won the seat as an Independent, and went on to form her own party, One Nation. One of the most controversial figures to emerge in Australian politics in the 1990s, in the 1998 Australian general election her party failed to win a single seat in the House of Representatives. She resigned as leader of One Nation in 2002. |
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