One Nation has effectively launched its campaign for the federal Wide Bay electorate, now held for the LNP by Llew O’Brien.
A party spokesperson said the candidate Chad Burgess wanted to see “a stronger, freer Australia.”
The spokesperson said Australia’s foundations had been eroded by “short-term decisions” made by representatives of the major parties.
Thee had “undermined key sectors like mining, manufacturing, agriculture, and technology, while also chipping away at Australia’s liberty and national identity.
“Australia has become a gilded cage where we’ve traded our advantages and freedoms for convenience,” Mr Burgess said.
“We are forgetting who we are, but I am inspired to fight for the memory of what Australia was, and what it can be.”
He said pressing issues in Wide Bay included “cost-of-living pressures, better opportunities for small businesses and safeguarding the region’s unique natural resources.”
He would also support Australia being “a country that values its heritage and freedoms” as well as improved “accountability, transparency, and common sense in government.”
The party’s website calls for an end to limits on pensioner and veterans incomes affecting their pension entitlements and a lift in the tax-free threshold for self-funded retirees, an end to gender treatment for children and says Australia should follow Queensland’s lead in banning puberty blockers.
It accuses the LNP of “stealing a longstanding One Nation plan to protect Australian business from woke banks” and promises “Trump’s action and style” and a withdrawal from the World Health Organisation’s health plans in favour of a “sovereign health policy.”
