AAP General News (Australia)
12-22-1999
Qld: One Nation breakaway party to reveal new name
The words One Nation - a name synonymous with Australia's right-wing political movement
- will be erased from Queensland's political landscape from today.
State executive director IAN PETERSEN says the five One Nation MPs who 10 days ago
applied to register their breakaway group as One Nation Queensland will apply to amend
their electoral commission application today.
The party's leader in state parliament, Caboolture MP BILL FELDMAN, says the new party
is likely to be called The Country-City Alliance.
Mr PETERSEN says the new party plans to become a real grassroots-driven political force
in within a few years.
He says the party's policies will be exactly the same and it is still firmly in support
of rural and regional Australia.
One Nation, founded by Ipswich fish-and-chip shop owner PAULINE HANSON in April 1996,
was struck off the political register in August, and last Monday the party's five Queensland
state MPs split, citing on-going uncertainty as their reason behind the move.
Since the move, New South Wales MP DAVID OLDFIELD and party figurehead DAVID ETTRIDGE
have threatened to launch legal action against the group for trademark breaches in using
One Nation in the name.
AAP RTV ap/jn/msk
KEYWORD: NATION QLD (BRISBANE)
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