{"id":926279,"date":"2026-10-13T05:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926279\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T05:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T05:50:16","slug":"vikki-campion-news-corp-columnist-and-wife-of-barnaby-joyce-begins-role-with-nsw-one-nation-one-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/926279\/","title":{"rendered":"Vikki Campion, News Corp columnist and wife of Barnaby Joyce, begins role with NSW One Nation | One Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vikki Campion, the News Corp columnist and wife of the federal One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce, has begun working as an adviser for the party in New South Wales<\/a> in the lead-up to the March state election.<\/p>\n

Campion, who helped the NSW One Nation<\/a> leader and candidate for Cessnock, Mike Newman, with a press conference in the Hunter electorate on Tuesday, told Guardian Australia she had started working for the party\u2019s state executive as a contractor, providing media advice on a part-time basis this week.<\/p>\n

She said it was \u201cpublicly disclosed that I [am] married to Barnaby on my website and the public are aware of my affiliation with One Nation through many media reports\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve worked as a political contractor for around six years across a range of campaigns and candidates while writing regularly and running a farm,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI report to the NSW state executive which is a separate entity to the federal One Nation, and I have previously worked for the state Nationals in similar arrangements.\u201d<\/p>\n

Campion writes a weekly column for the Saturday Telegraph, with her latest one published on 9 October.<\/p>\n

Asked if she would disclose her work for the party in future columns for the paper, Campion said that \u201cas an opinion writer, I don\u2019t think anyone who has read my column would be shocked that I would want to help One Nation\u201d.<\/p>\n

After Guardian Australia put questions to the Daily Telegraph about Campion\u2019s work with One Nation, the paper published an article about her new role in the party. She told the Telegraph it was a \u201cnatural extension\u201d of her career as a conservative commentator.<\/p>\n

\u201cCampion will continue to write her weekly column appearing every Saturday as a contributor,\u201d the article stated.<\/p>\n

Campion subsequently posted to social media about her role, saying \u201cthe party is a phenomenon and unlike anything Australian politics<\/a> has seen in a very long time\u201d.<\/p>\n

Campion worked as a media adviser to Joyce when he was deputy prime minister. The pair married in 2023. Joyce had announced in late 2017 that he and his first wife had separated and the Daily Telegraph subsequently published a photo of a pregnant Campion on its front page in February 2018.<\/p>\n

In an appearance on the ABC\u2019s Australian Story in August, Campion said she felt \u201csuicidal\u201d during a press conference called by the then prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, after the story broke<\/a>. The ABC issued an apology to Campion after the ABC News Instagram account published a clip from the episode with Campion discussing her experience of postpartum depression without disabling comments under the video.<\/p>\n

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Joyce, the federal MP for New England, defected from the Nationals to One Nation<\/a> last December.<\/p>\n

The revelation about Campion\u2019s work for the party came after News24 reported that another high-profile former Coalition figure, the 2022 Liberal candidate for Warringah, Katherine Deves, would run as an upper house candidate in the NSW election. Deves had previously announced that she joined One Nation in September.<\/p>\n

But after News24 reported that Deves \u2013 who said she had received death threats<\/a> after comments she had made about transgender people surfaced during the 2022 campaign \u2013 would run as an upper house candidate, One Nation put out a statement saying it had only confirmed three candidates \u2013 Newman and the upper house candidates Stuart Bonds and Jeff Bacon, a firearms manufacturer based in Tamworth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have received more than 800 [candidate] applications from community leaders, advocates and business people,\u201d a spokesperson said. Campion told Guardian Australia she had no plans to run as a candidate for the party.<\/p>\n

One Nation and the Saturday Telegraph were contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vikki Campion, the News Corp columnist and wife of the federal One Nation MP Barnaby Joyce, has begun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":926280,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-926279","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\/926279","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=926279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/926279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/926280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=926279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=926279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=926279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}