The City Country Alliance (CCA), initially known as One Nation Queensland, was a short-lived Australian political party, operating exclusively in Queensland, that briefly held six

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state parliamentary seats. It was founded in the wake of

Pauline Hanson's One Nation Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON), also known as One Nation (ON) or One Nation Party (ONP), is a Right-wing populism, right-wing populist List of political parties in Australia, political party in Australia. It is led by Pauline Hanson. ...

experiencing severe ructions in Queensland, the home state of founder

Pauline Hanson Pauline Lee Hanson (''née'' Seccombe, formerly Zagorski; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation, a right-wing populist political party. Hanson has represented Queensland in the Australian S ...

. One Nation had made a surprisingly good showing at the 1998 state election, winning 11 seats in the

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. However, in 1999, five MLAs seceded to sit as independents, in protest at the centralisation of party affairs in

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, costing One Nation official status in the legislature. Amid delays in the

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acting on an appeal of One Nation's deregistration in Queensland, the five remaining One Nation MLAs tried to register a separate Queensland party. When party headquarters declared it a mutiny, they announced formation of One Nation QLD as a separate party. The party later changed its name to the City Country Alliance. Its inaugural parliamentary leader was Bill Feldman, and its executive director was Ian Petersen. A sixth member,

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, subsequently joined, and was later followed by former Senator-elect Heather Hill. On 12 September 2000, the party became lawfully registered, but it had already showed signs of collapse before winning formal registration. Its website had not been updated since 24 March 2000. The party was also registered with the

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. It did not run in any elections in the state. On 17 February 2001, the party contested the Queensland state election, winning only 2.39% of the primary vote, and losing all of its seats. On 22 April 2003, the party lost its official status after the

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determined it no longer had the right to hold it.

Members of Parliament

*1999–2001 ** Harry Black MLA (

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) ** David Dalgleish MLA (

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) ** Bill Feldman MLA (

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) ** Jack Paff MLA ( Ipswich West) ** Peter Prenzler MLA ( Lockyer) *2000–2001 **

MLA ( Burdekin)

References

External links

City Country Alliance
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