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|membership = Increase since early 2015〔http://www.onenation.com.au/hot-topics/hanson-takes-her-maiden-flight-in-her-new-plane〕 |membership_year = 2015 |international = British National Party (observer) |seats1_title = House of Representatives |seats1 = |seats2_title = Senate |seats2 = |website = |country = Australia }} The One Nation Party (also ONP and One Nation, officially Pauline Hanson's One Nation) is a minor political party in Australia. One Nation was founded in 1997, by then-member of parliament, Pauline Hanson and her advisiors David Ettridge and David Oldfield after Hanson was disendorsed as a federal candidate for the Liberal Party. The disendorsement came before the 1996 federal election because of comments she made about Indigenous Australians. Hanson sat as an Independent for one year before forming One Nation. Federally, no One Nation candidate has ever been elected any members to the House of Representatives (Hanson was already a member of the House when One Nation was formed). One party candidate was elected to the Senate, representing Queensland, at the 1998 federal election where the party peaked 9% of the vote, nationwide. In state politics however, One Nation has performed better. At the 1998 Queensland state election the party gained more than 22% of the vote in Queensland's unicameral legislative assembly, winning 11 of the 89 seats. David Oldfield was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a One Nation candidate, but he was expelled from the party and later formed the unsuccessful splinter group, One Nation NSW. Three members were elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council. The party has never achieved such electoral success again. The party has a strongly nationalist and conservative platform. Hanson and other party members have denied claims that the party is racist. Hanson says that "criticism is not racism" about her statements on immigration and race. Hanson has also said that she enjoys the company of other ethnicities and welcomes people to Australia wherever their origin, but does not want other cultures to overly influence Australia. One Nation changed its name back to "Pauline Hanson's One Nation" in June 2015. Hanson has announced that the party will field candidates in the 2016 Federal Election, with Hanson contesting a Queensland Senate Seat. ==Overview== One Nation was formed in 1997 by Pauline Hanson, David Oldfield and David Ettridge. Hanson, was an endorsed Liberal Party candidate for the seat of Oxley, Queensland at the 1996 federal election, but was disendorsed by the party shortly before the elections due to comments she made to a local newspaper in Ipswich, Queensland opposing "race-based welfare". Oldfield, a councillor on Manly Council in suburban Sydney and at one time an employee of Liberal minister Tony Abbott, was the organisational architect of the party. The name "One Nation" was chosen to signify belief in national unity, in contrast to a perceived increasing division in Australian society allegedly caused by government policies favouring immigrants and indigenous Australians. The term One Nation was last used in Australian political life to describe a tax reform package by the Labor government of Paul Keating, whose urban-based, Asia-centric, free-market, and pro-affirmative action policies were representative of what One Nation voters were opposing. Arguing that the other parties to be out of touch with mainstream Australia, One Nation ran on a broadly populist and protectionist platform. It promised to drastically reduce immigration and to abolish "divisive and discriminatory policies ... attached to Aboriginal and multicultural affairs." Condemning multiculturalism as a "threat to the very basis of the Australian culture, identity and shared values", One Nation rallied against government immigration and multicultural policies which, it argued, were leading to "the Asianisation of Australia."〔(One Nation's Immigration, Population and Social Cohesion Policy 1998 )〕 The party also denounced economic rationalism and globalisation, reflecting working-class dissatisfaction with the neo-liberal economic policies embraced by the major parties. Adopting strong protectionist policies, One Nation advocated the restoration of import tariffs, a revival of Australia's manufacturing industry, and an increase in support for small business and the rural sector.〔Charlton, P. 1998. Full Circle. ''The Courier-Mail'', 13 June 1998.〕 One Nation became subject to a political campaign by Tony Abbott, who established a trust fund called "Australians for Honest Politics Trust" to help bankroll civil court cases against the Party (see ''Tony Abbott#Action against the One Nation party''). He was also accused of offering funds to One Nation dissident Terry Sharples to support his court battle against the party. Abbott conceded that the political threat One Nation posed to the Howard Government was "a very big factor" in his decision to pursue the legal attack, but he also claimed to be acting "in Australia's national interest". The party's greatest appeal was in country areas of New South Wales and Queensland, the traditional heartlands of the junior partner in the non-Labor Coalition, the National Party. Indeed, for much of 1997 and 1998, it appeared that One Nation would pass the Nationals. The party has been involved in Glenn Druery's Minor Party Alliance. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「One Nation (Australia)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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