{"id":659583,"date":"2026-05-09T10:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659583\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T10:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T10:08:09","slug":"one-nation-win-former-liberal-party-leader-sussan-leys-seat-in-nsw-riverina-region-votes-flock-to-pauline-hansons-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/659583\/","title":{"rendered":"One Nation win former Liberal Party leader Sussan Ley\u2019s seat in NSW Riverina region; votes flock to Pauline Hanson\u2019s party"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Nation\u2019s David Farley is the widely accepted frontrunner in today\u2019s byelection. Early results have put him far above independent challenger Michelle Milthorpe, the Liberals and the Nationals.<\/p>\n

However, Farley\u2019s run has been far from spotless, as a number of scandals have rocked his campaign, namely his attempt to run for Labor in Farrer at the 2022 election<\/a>, and his former membership of the National Party.<\/p>\n

\"OneOne Nation candidate David Farley and party leader Pauline Hanson arrive at an Albury polling booth on Friday. Janie Barrett<\/p>\n

In the lead-up to the 2025 general election, Farley also endorsed Milthorpe as a \u201cstraight shooter\u201d when she made her first run for the seat.<\/p>\n

Farley reposted three videos posted by a 22-year-old Madrid-based OnlyFans model last year, as reported by The Daily Telegraph, a move he said was \u201cinadvertent\u201d. Farley claimed at the time he had \u201cno idea what OnlyFans is\u201d.<\/p>\n

The candidate was also at odds with One Nation\u2019s staunch policy of drastically reducing migration numbers, when he told Sky News that Australia\u2019s current level of net overseas migration was \u201cprobably not\u201d too high.<\/p>\n

The impact of these incidents on Farley\u2019s electoral success can only be determined in the final count.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation\u2019s David Farley is the widely accepted frontrunner in today\u2019s byelection. Early results have put him far…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-659583","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\/659583","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=659583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}