{"id":949305,"date":"2026-11-02T00:48:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949305\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T00:48:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:48:09","slug":"nationals-leader-matt-canavan-to-run-for-lower-house-seat-in-possible-showdown-with-one-nations-james-ashby-australian-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/949305\/","title":{"rendered":"Nationals leader Matt Canavan to run for lower house seat in possible showdown with One Nation\u2019s James Ashby | Australian politics"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, will run in a lower house Queensland<\/a> seat at the next federal election, in a move that may see him face off with Pauline Hanson\u2019s national director.<\/p>\n

The announcement follows the retirement of the Capricornia MP Michelle Landry, and could result in a contest against James Ashby<\/a> in a major battle for regional seats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe issue is we need to keep this seat to change the government, and I want us to continue to deliver for central Queensland,\u201d Canavan told the Courier-Mail on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think you\u2019ll be surprised by this announcement but I\u2019m not going to die wondering. I may very well die politically, but I\u2019m not going to die wondering. I\u2019ll give it my all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hanson ruled herself out for the seat, but left the door open to Ashby running as a contender.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s still over a year out from the election, a year and a half, so I\u2019m not making any decisions or giving any indication where I\u2019m standing or where James Ashby, if James Ashby is going to stand,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n

Canavan was previously tipped to make a bid for the House of Representatives<\/a> amid warnings from pollsters the Nationals leader has a \u201czero per cent\u201d chance of holding on to his Senate spot if One Nation maintained its surge in opinion polls.<\/p>\n

Earlier last month, Canavan said he was prepared to do \u201cwhatever it takes\u201d to hold Capricornia for his party.<\/p>\n

Landry, based in Rockhampton, announced her decision last month to retire from politics and not to recontest her seat at the next election.<\/p>\n

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The Nationals senator Bridget McKenzie<\/a> said One Nation should not be fighting to win Coalition-held seats if the party was serious about taking on Labor.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf One Nation<\/a> is really serious about firing the liar, then they need to start running in Labor party seats instead of running against someone like Matt Canavan,\u201d she told Nine\u2019s Today show.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I\u2019m] not afraid of a fight \u2013 I want to save our country, and that means changing the prime minister, and that means taking Labor party seats.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, will run in a lower house Queensland seat at the next federal election,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-949305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949305","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=949305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}