United Australia Party’s Craig Kelly to Join Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party

While the defection may boost One Nation’s chances of winning seats in NSW, in the meantime it could lose its only MP as a result.

Member for Hughes Craig Kelly looks on during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Feb. 2, 2021. Sam Mooy/Getty Images

One Nation political party’s New South Wales division, formerly led by Mark Latham until his resignation last year, has recruited Craig Kelly as state director.

Mr. Kelly entered the federal parliament in the 2010 federal election, then resigned and sat as an independent in 2021. Later that year he announced that he was joining the United Australia Party (UAP), and was appointed as the party’s leader.