Former senator Cory Bernardi recruited by One Nation as future of Coalition remains unclear; RBA to make rate decision today
Former Liberal senator Cory Bernardi became the latest political figure. Join Pauline Hanson’s One Nation It is ahead of the fractured Coalition in the polls.
Hanson announced Bernardi would be the leading candidate for the party’s upper house in the March election in South Australia.
“Cory has strong, solid conservative values that are a perfect fit for One Nation, and he is a leading South Australian keen to make the positive differences in his own country that the Liberals have not had the courage to make,” he said.
Bernardi served as senator until 2020. His own party, the Australian Conservatives, failed to gain any traction in 2019 after splitting from the Liberals.
There is unconfirmed speculation that Liberal senator Alex Antic will join Bernardi. Both are far-right and to the right of the Liberal Party on the Christian right.
