Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWould welcome discussion when we meet Tuesday on the proposed management of preferences, whose and how to secure them,\u201d Farley wrote in an email to a Voices Of Farrer coordinator in February 2024.<\/p>\n
At the time, Ley was the deputy Liberal leader to Peter Dutton. She had won Farrer on a 66-34 two-party margin at the 2022 election.<\/p>\n
\u201cSussan Ley with the position of deputy leader of the Liberal party and two-decade incumbent for Farrer will not go without a serious fight, that will be fought with a well-funded purse [sic],\u201d Farley wrote to the Voices coordinator.<\/p>\n
\u201cNext federal election must be on or before 27th September 2025 ~ 19 month away or earlier, time is of the essence as D day isn\u2019t clearly transparent [sic].\u201d<\/p>\n
Milthorpe would be endorsed by Voices of Farrer later in 2024, but Ley retained the seat on a 56-44 margin.<\/p>\n
Records from a ticketing site show Farley reserved a ticket to a Voices of Farrer event, called \u201cGathering In Griffith\u201d, held in September 2023, and added a small donation. In a follow-up message to event organisers, Farley wrote that he had booked conflicting meetings and would not be able to attend after all, but that he would \u201cwelcome meeting the team at Voices For Farrer in the near future\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Voices movement runs grassroots processes to find local candidates for independent campaigns for office. Inspired by former Indi MP Cathy McGowan\u2019s successful local campaign to unseat Liberal Sophie Mirabella in 2013, similar Voices groups have been established in electorates nationwide, helping support the election of community independents including Zali Steggall, Allegra Spender, Nicolette Boele and Sophie Scamps. Some Voices candidates have also attracted funding from Climate 200.<\/p>\n
A One Nation spokesperson did not dispute these messages or Farley\u2019s engagement with Voices Of when contacted for comment, replying instead that \u201cmost Australians have a history of voting or supporting other political parties throughout their life.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cMany One Nation voters have emerged as a result of the failings of Labor and the coalition. The uni-party have lost many of their once loyal supporters who have found a new home with One Nation and we welcome those people who put Australia first,\u201d the spokesperson said in a response.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have no doubt David Farley has taken that same journey in [his] search for a party that represents Australian values and it\u2019s fantastic to see he, like so many others, have chosen One Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Some campaign material from One Nation, as well as from the Liberals and Nationals, has highlighted Milthorpe\u2019s links to Climate 200; Pauline Hanson referred to her as a \u201cfake independent\u201d.<\/p>\n
Farley\u2019s shifting party affiliation has also been highlighted in campaign material, with Nationals\u2019 corflutes picturing him in a Labor T-shirt and Facebook videos portraying him as a chameleon.<\/p>\n
Farley, in a candidate\u2019s forum at Charles Sturt University last week, did not resile from his shifting party allegiances over recent years, saying he\u2019d looked at several political options.<\/p>\n
\u201cI explored the path of independents down there and looked at, can you go into Canberra as an independent without the machinery behind you? And I said no.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a 27 April Facebook post, he wrote: \u201cLike many Australians, I explored my options before finding a political home that actually reflects my values, and I make no apology for that.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the same CSU forum, he appeared to contradict One Nation immigration policy<\/a> and endorse Labor\u2019s current net overseas migration number.<\/p>\nFarley said he wanted to find a party with \u201ccourage and tenacity\u201d, which he claims he found in One Nation.<\/p>\n
He said he \u201cculturally didn\u2019t fit\u201d in the Labor party, \u201cand I got out of the door\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s 2026. Democracy doesn\u2019t live in a museum, it actually lives in a gymnasium, it\u2019s active \u2026 where you place your energies for public service needs to be matched and aligned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation\u2019s Farrer candidate, David Farley, sought to cooperate with the community independent \u201cVoices\u201d movement before the last…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":657226,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-657225","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\/657225","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=657225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657225\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/657226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}