Samuel Victor Cox (born 22 December 1964) is an Australian former politician who was the member of the

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for Thuringowa from 2012 to 2015. Cox was educated at

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. He defected to

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. ...

in January 2017, and announced that he would contest the next Queensland state election for One Nation in the seat of

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, but was unsuccessful. Cox later unsuccessfully ran for

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in the 2020 local government elections. He contested the seat of Burdekin in the

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as a

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candidate, and was again unsuccessful.

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1964 births Katter's Australian Party politicians Living people Liberal National Party of Queensland politicians Members of the Queensland Legislative Assembly People educated at Anglican Church Grammar School 21st-century Australian politicians Pauline Hanson's One Nation politicians {{Australia-LiberalNational-politician-stub