Fed: ON could pose threat to Nats in Senate in Qld

AAP General News (Australia)
02-12-2001
Fed: ON could pose threat to Nats in Senate in Qld

The president of the National Party has warned the party's sole Queensland senator
could be at risk if One Nation continues its resurgence.

HELEN DICKIE says the Nationals lost a senator to One Nation at the last federal election,
and the same could happen this year when RON BOSWELL is up for re-election.

She's urging her party's MPs to put One Nation last when preferences are allocated.

The call follows the fall-out from the West Australian election where One Nation gained
up to 20 per cent of the vote in some electorates.

One Nation directed its preferences to the Labor Party ahead of the Liberal and National parties.

Mrs DICKIE says she's concerned by the strength of One Nation in Western Australia.

She says if the same sort of results are replicated in the Queensland state election
on Saturday it could prove a major headache at this year's federal poll.

AAP RTV sw/daw/klw/jn

KEYWORD: NATION DICKIE (CANBERRA)

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