Yeah, I mean, David, it's this thing, right, where parents quite correctly are told by schools, you are involved in the education of your child, right? You're not dropping them off at the mechanics to get fixed up, right? You're involved 24 hours a day, right? Well, equally, the parent has to have the ability to be able to interact with a school and a school to listen when enough of the parents come and say, hey, what's all this about?

Correct.

You know, first of all, parenting is the goal and the ultimate responsibility of the child is the parent.

You know, I've just finished a tour of the north-western section of Farrah, right from out to Wentworth and then came back through Euston all the way up to Hay, Hilston, all through that part of the world.

And we met with what we call the three Cs, constituency, council and commerce.

And in that commerce side, we had many of the school teachers come along.

And one of the big complaints they had was this curriculum that they're being forced to teach to now.

The idea that the average Australian, including one in a small country town, doesn't want somebody who doesn't look like who they went to school with is garbage.

Can you just clear up what your position is on immigration?

Well, it's pretty, it's pretty simple.

We've, we've gotta get in control of immigration.

At the moment, immigration's in control of us.

Uh, a lot of people are working their way around our rules to maintain a presence in Australia.

Our position's 130,000 net, uh, NOM, net overseas migration.

So when we look at the NOM, we've gotta also be cognisant there's about a million Australians living offshore at the moment.

I mean, what's your priority? Is it staying in One Nation no matter what, or is it protecting the interests of your seat, Farrer?

To what extent have you sought and to what extent have you been able to obtain access to the relevant ministers to discuss this? And do you think you can make any progress?

Well, first of all, yes, our campaign was based on, our slogan through the campaign was to bring back productivity and capacity to FARA.

And what we talk about there is productivity is in our agricultural land and capacity is in our secondary industries of logistics, processing, and just running communities.

That's health, schools, hospital, law, et cetera.

What progress are we making? We're making good progress.

My first question at question time to the Parliament was directed directly to the Minister of Defence, Richard Miles, and that was focused on, Minister, are you and your department engaged in the review of the 2007 Water Act? Are you and your department engaged in the review of the 2026 Murray-Darling Basin Plan? And are you and your department engaged in the drafting of the Australian Food Security Document? Now, I ask that question in particular because when you actually go over to the defence papers and their policies, water is in there quite clearly.

And at the moment, water has only had the eyes and the lens of the Department of Environment and Water on it.

What is your opinion of the centres and would you like to see them in Farah and are there any plans at the moment for them in Farah?

But it It wasn't just Pauline Hanson, her daughter Lee, who you know personally, Lee is one of the most lovely people, she and her children have had death threats as well.

Yeah, I do know Lee, a magnificent woman, very smart.

It is unfortunate that we've got some lunatics out there, people who are disorganised, disarranged, etc., The whole objective of our AFP, the skills that they've got, is to make sure they're on top of it.

These people, depending on what type of communication or media they're using, will be tracked down.

They will be pulled into line and, of course, dealt with accordingly.

But the most important thing is keeping those that are prepared to serve the country through public service, keeping them safe.

And...

Talk me through that.

Why has this raised your ire?

What's been reported today is a massive $360 million water buyback out of the heart of the food bowl of Australia.

It's an enormous amount of water, circa 86 gigalitres of water.

It will have an immediate impact on production.

It'll have an immediate impact on spring planting and irrigation intentions, and ultimately it's going to have a flow-on effect straight into the supermarkets of Australia.

Who's selling this water? Well, this is interesting in its own right.

It's State Street, which is part of Aware Super, which is the superannuation money of the New South Wales, Victorian and some Western Australian state

and this is part of the government's plan to buy well buy back part of but get 450 extra gigaliters of water to the murray darling basin plan it sounds like you're opposed to them going into the market to do that

What does a monocultural Australia look like from One Nation's perspective?

It's what we are.

It's what we've got.

It's where we've come from.

It's what we have the chant at the sports and the Olympic Games of our famous Aussie chant of oi, oi, oi.

It's one nation that builds together.

You know, it's people who can identify them as migrants, but they can be an Australian migrant or an Australian Italian, an Australian Greek or an Australian African.

So outside of a crisis or a situation of war, under a One Nation view of monoculture, are people free to practice and express their culture publicly in Australia?

What does a monocultural Australia look like from One Nation's perspective?

It's what we are.

It's what we've got.

It's where we've come from.

It's what we have the chant at the sports and the Olympic Games of our famous Aussie chant of oi, oi, oi.

It's one nation that builds together.

You know, it's people who can identify them as migrants, but they can be an Australian migrant or an Australian Italian, an Australian Greek or an Australian African.

And would people in regional areas be receiving news solely about their region or would they have news on national and international events? Would you still need those journalists but you'll be providing it to a smaller audience?

What's going on? How do you account for this significant rise in support for One Nation, particularly over the past few months? Well,

first of all, I think we ought to put it in perspective, as Pauline Hanson has.

It is a poll.

It's not a ballot.

So polls have got elasticity to them.

But what we learnt in FARA was, first of all, the art of listening to actually understand what's going on within your electorate.

and that can transfer over to what's going on within Australia at the moment.

Are you prepared to, on some occasions, vote on issues based on your personal beliefs and the electorate's view, even if Pauline Hanson may disagree with a position?

True.

So polls, polls have got elasticity to them.

But what we learned in Farrer was, uh, first of all, the art of listening to actually, actually understand what's going on within your electorate, and that can transfer over to what's going on within Australia at the moment.

Australians, uh, in particular, uh, are very, very uncomfortable, uh, and feeling a lot of personal discomfort, family discomfort, and commerce discomfort, uh, just in way...

the, the policies that are r- running and driving our country at the moment, whether it's, uh, the, uh, the price of liquid energies, the price of, uh, retail, uh, power for houses or for, for, um, homes in themselves.

Uh, we've just, uh, trying to digest a bouncing rubber ball of a budget that the government has, uh, delivered that, um, uh, again, approaches, uh, from a, an aggressive tax angle, which is taking more discretionary spend out of the pocket.

And more importantly, I think it's just where is the aspiration for Australia at the moment? Um, people cannot put their head above the daily parapet and look at a target and say, "We're going here." Um, the government's having a lot of problems in articulating their narrative of where they want Australia to be, when they want it to arrive, and how they're going to do it.

What's One Nation's tax policy?

Are they ready for you in Canberra?

Uh, well, I'm ready for Canberra.

I hope they're ready for me, definitely.

Um, and, and it's pretty simple, Karl.

There's a job to be done, and, um, that, that, that job, if we do it in Farrer, it's good for the nation of Australia.

You know, we're, we're producing circa 40% of Australia's food.

Um, we've got a big footprint across, uh, New South Wales and across Australia.

Uh, would you mind just giving people who are listening and watching an idea of, of what you've done, a snapshot?

Is it a case of One Nation has always stood for what it has historically stood for and the electorate has changed? Or is it just a rejection of the old parties, Labor and Liberal? How would you characterize it?

One Nation has been true to form, true to itself and true to its form through its entire 30 years.

Pauline Hanson has stood the test of time.

She has demonstrated she has been the consistency in the Australian Parliament.

She's been there both with policy and with presence.

I think it's really 25, what we did learn is that 25 years as a safe seat is a neglected seat.

And Being a safe seat means there's no competition in it.

He reckons the Nationals and the Liberals are finished.

I- is it a case of One Nation has always st- stood for what it, what it has historically sta- stood for a- and the, and the ele- the electorate has changed? Or is it just a rejection of the old parties, Labor and Liberal? How, how would you characterize it?

Um, it's One Nation has been true, true to form, true, true to itself and true to its form, uh, through its, you know, entire 30 years.

Uh, Pauline Hanson has, has stood the test of time.

She has demonstrated she has been the consistency in the Australian Parliament.

Uh, she's been there, um, with, you know, uh, both with policy and with presence.

Um, I think it's really 25...

What we did learn is that 25 years as a safe seat is a neglected seat, and, uh, being a safe seat means it's not being-- there's no competition in it.

He reckons, uh, th- the Nationals and the Liberals are finished.

Um, can you explain to us how that would look, uh, and why that's, uh, something that you would consider, uh, when it hasn't worked elsewhere?

Thanks for the question.

Um, I haven't explained to you, what I explained to you is the due diligence I did on hospital studies, not only in Australia but around the world, and that was part of a conversation.

It wasn't a recommendation.

Our position and my position on the hospital is quite clear.

We've got a $550 million allocated amount of money to, to complete our brownfields project that we're doing at the moment.

We must complete that.

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... powerful team of volunteers on the ground who are putting a lot of work into it, dedicated volunteers that are working well.

And this evening I've got the support coming in behind me with the One Nation senators, and Pauline Hanson herself, and Barnaby Joyce as well.

So not only have we got a powerful team, we, we've got powerful policy, we've got a powerful action plan.

We're giving people confidence that Farrer will be well-represented.

Are you confident about preference flows to get you over the line on Saturday night?

Yeah, no, we're very confident.

We've, you know, that deal's been done.

I do appreciate it.

Yeah.

Just simply tell us, who are you and who were you before you became potentially the next member for Farrer? David, we'll start with you.

Thank you.

David Farley, uh agriculturalist, agri-businessman, and a very, very proud father of three girls.

What do you bring to the table here?

Um, my background's interesting, and especially for Farrer.

My grandfather returned after the First World War to establish orchards.

My father returned after the S- Second World War and started an agribusiness, uh, business.

I, um, born in Farrer, played football in Farrer.

I farmed in Farrer.

I had a great career in agriculture and agribusiness across Australia.

But the water issue, why is it such a big issue in Farrer? Can you explain that to my Sydney listeners who might not be across the detail here? What's at stake?

What do you bring to the table here?

Um, my background's interesting, especially for Farrer.

My grandfather returned after the First World War to establish orchards.

My father returned after the Second World War and started an agribusiness, uh, business.

I, um, born in Farrer, played football in Farrer.

I farmed in Farrer.

I had a great career in agriculture and agribusiness across Australia.

But the water issue, why is it such a big issue in Farrer? Can you explain that to my Sydney listeners who might not be across the detail here? What's at stake?