BRISBANE: The One Nation Party has rushed extra staff to its Brisbane headquarters to deal with a flood of new membership applications lodged overwhelmingly by Aboriginal Australians.

A party spokesperson said the One Nation website had been “sent into meltdown” on the weekend following its win in the Farrer by-election.

“When the result became clear on Saturday night our website was hit by thousands – no tens of thousands – of applications for party membership,” the spokesperson said.

“The potential new members are spread right across Australia but are overwhelmingly from people in Aboriginal communities.

“Without exception they all state that they wish to join because they heard Pauline Hanson and others in our leadership team repeatedly declare that One Nation wanted to ‘take our country back’.

“They all say that they too want their country back and have been waiting 238 years for a political party to come along to help them do just that,” the spokesperson said.

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TAMWORTH: One Nation MP and former National Party leader and deputy prime minister, Barnaby Joyce, has explained his controversial action in kissing party leader Pauline Hanson live on air during TV coverage of the party’s victory celebrations in the seat of Farrer on Saturday night. (below)

“I usually wear beer goggles when attending those sort of events,” Mr Joyce said. “Or any event, really.

“But on Saturday night I wore my Bundy goggles (main picture) which meant anyone or anything was fair game.

“Pauline just happened to be closest to me at the time, but it could just as easily have been someone or something else.”

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ALBURY: Political analysist say the success of One Nation in Farrer is largely due to the fact that its MP-elect, David Farley, was one of the best, if not the best, qualified candidate ever field by the party.

“He performed in an informed, articulate, and polished manner with no hint of the old-style One Nation borderline racists attitudes and incoherence or vaguely criminal background as we’ve seen with so many of their candidates in the past,” one commentator said.

Mr Farley refused to comment on the plaudits but did say he would decide soon on what option he would exercise in coming months after serving in the same party as Pauline Hanson.

“I’ve not yet made up my mind if I’ll continue as an independent MP or join another right-wing party, or form my own party, once I am forced to make the inevitable break with One Nation as we’ve seen with so many of their MPs in the past,” he said.

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