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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Michael McGowan and Joe Hinchliffe

One Nation running candidates in states where they don’t live, as emails reveal scramble to fill seats

Pauline Hanson
One Nation party leader and senator Pauline Hanson said the party would field candidates for all House of Representative seats at the 2022 federal election. Photograph: Mike Bowers/The Guardian

One Nation was still scrambling to find people to run for this month’s federal election just hours before the close of nominations, telling one prospective candidate to leave the electorate he was running in “blank” on his form while the party desperately tried to fill seats.

Guardian Australia can also reveal that several of the candidates chosen to run for the party live in other states than the seat they’re standing in, including a husband and wife selected to run in separate seats in New South Wales and Victoria.

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