{"id":757637,"date":"2026-06-24T18:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757637\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T18:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T18:06:14","slug":"rookie-one-nation-mp-blames-lack-of-staff-for-mistakenly-voting-with-greens-one-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/757637\/","title":{"rendered":"Rookie One Nation MP blames lack of staff for mistakenly voting with Greens | One Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

One Nation\u2019s rookie MP David Farley has blamed his political inexperience for mistakenly voting in support of winding back fuel tax credits, which drew condemnation from miners and the Coalition.<\/p>\n

Farley sided with the Greens and teal independents in a lower house vote to cap the scheme, which refunds miners, farmers and other industries that use heavy machinery the 52.6c a litre excise applied to petrol and diesel.<\/p>\n

The amendment \u2013 which was moved by the Bradfield MP, Nicolette Boele on Tuesday afternoon\u2013 was defeated after Labor and the Coalition<\/a> rejected it.<\/p>\n

Farley\u2019s stance endorsed a position that the Minerals Council of Australia (MCA) and National Farmers\u2019 Federation (NFF) have labelled an attack on farmers, miners and truck drivers \u2013 constituencies One Nation claims to represent.<\/p>\n

In a statement reported by the Nine Papers on Wednesday, Farley said he had asked the clerk of the house of representatives for advice about correcting the vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, I was not able to change my votes after the fact,\u201d said Farley, who was sworn into parliament earlier this month after winning the Farrer byelection.<\/p>\n

\u201cI regret that I made these mistakes. They were made due to my inexperience in Parliament. Recruiting experienced staff to support my work has been difficult, however I am rectifying the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Earlier on Wednesday, the MCA chief executive, Tania Constable, whose organisation this week launched a new campaign to protect the scheme from \u201cnoisy activists\u201d<\/a>, said Farley\u2019s position on the vote was \u201creally disappointing\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Farley is a regional member and it was his first big opportunity to show what he\u2019s made of, and he voted against regional Australia,\u201d Constable told Sky News.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe voted against the farmers, the fishers, the construction industry. He voted against the miners. He voted against regional Australia and we\u2019re really deeply disappointed that he threw his lot in with the Greens and the teals.\u201d<\/p>\n

Farley\u2019s vote put him in the same camp as climate campaigners, unions, rank-and-file Labor members and mining billionaire Andrew Forrest, who view the rebate scheme as a handbrake to decarbonisation and want it capped at $50m a company annually.<\/p>\n

Farmers and other \u201csmall users\u201d would not be captured under that model, which was replicated in Boele\u2019s amendment, meaning Farley was not voting against those groups.<\/p>\n

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The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, earlier this month said she \u201chad to have a conversation\u201d with Farley<\/a> about his positions after he backed current migration levels and signalled he would fly the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flag in his office.<\/p>\n

He later clarified on Facebook that his office would fly the Australian flag and that no flag would stand above or replace it.<\/p>\n

Guardian Australia has been told One Nation privately assured mining bosses on Wednesday that Farley made a mistake and the party supports the existing fuel tax credit regime.<\/p>\n

The Nationals seized on Farley\u2019s decision to side with the Greens and teals on the fuel tax credits vote, staging a press conference with the NFF CEO, Michael Guerin, to demand clarity on One Nation\u2019s position.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid Farley says it\u2019s all theatrics,\u201d the shadow resources minister, Susan McDonald, said. \u201cIf he wants theatrics, he should join a play group. But if he is serious about being a part of the Australian parliament, of taking his job and the voters that have sent him here seriously, he has got to think about what he is doing. Is this now One Nation policy?\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked if Farley should be forgiven if, as a rookie MP, he simply made a mistake on the chamber floor, the Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, said: \u201cI don\u2019t think this is a place for training wheels.\u201d<\/p>\n

The shadow treasurer, Tim Wilson, said Farley\u2019s position showed One Nation was \u201call over the place\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t really know where it is they stand, or who they\u2019re fighting for, but that\u2019s a matter for them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation\u2019s rookie MP David Farley has blamed his political inexperience for mistakenly voting in support of winding…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":757638,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-757637","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\/757637","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=757637"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757637\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}