{"id":525386,"date":"2026-03-07T21:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525386\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T21:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T21:04:11","slug":"one-nation-seeks-a-foothold-in-farrer-as-it-names-byelection-candidate-australian-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/525386\/","title":{"rendered":"One Nation seeks a foothold in Farrer as it names byelection candidate | Australian politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Farley has been named as One Nation\u2019s candidate in the federal byelection for the seat of the ousted Liberal leader, Sussan Ley<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The New South Wales electorate of Farrer will go to the polls on 9 May after Ley, who held the seat for 25 years, quit parliament last month after being deposed as opposition leader by Angus Taylor.<\/p>\n

While the Liberals are yet to nominate a candidate for the traditionally conservative stronghold, One Nation<\/a> held a three-way ballot in Albury on Saturday, with Farley, 69, a Narrandera-based irrigator, winning the confidence of his party over Albury small business owner, Leigh Wolki, 58, and Guy Cooper, 31, from a fifth generation Farrer farming family.<\/p>\n

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson<\/a> and the former deputy prime minister and Nationals member for New England, Barnaby Joyce, who defected to the rightwing party in December, were in Albury for the preselection meeting and announcement.<\/p>\n

Hanson said she was confident the party had selected the right candidate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis is a resilient community of proud Australians. They deserve a representative who shares the same values, who works hard, and who puts their community first. David Farley is that representative,\u201d she said in a statement after the nomination.<\/p>\n

Farley claimed in a statement that One Nation represented \u201cthe only real alternative for Australians who are watching their living standards go backward under Labor\u201d.<\/p>\n

The byelection in the 126,000 sq km rural electorate will test One Nation\u2019s on-ground organisational skills<\/a> at a time when the party\u2019s popularity is surging, according to recent polling<\/a>. Before Saturday\u2019s contest, Hanson said the \u201ceyes of the entire nation\u201d would be on the outcome.<\/p>\n

It will also test Taylor\u2019s new leadership. In an address to the NSW Liberal party<\/a> state council on Saturday morning, the newly minted leader of the opposition said the byelection was going to be a \u201ctough fight\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith your help, we\u2019re going to be putting up a hell of a fight in Farrer, all the way through to the close of the polls,\u201d Taylor said.<\/p>\n

The Liberal and National parties are yet to announce their contenders for the byelection. The Climate 200-backed independent candidate, Michelle Millthorpe, who took on Ley at the last election<\/a>, will run again. Labor is unlikely to field a candidate.<\/p>\n

Nominations for the seat, in south-western NSW, close on 13 April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"David Farley has been named as One Nation\u2019s candidate in the federal byelection for the seat of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525387,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-525386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525386\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}