The election day fluctuated as a controversial One Nation founder tragic – while news breaks on the day of the federal elections 2025

Australian politics has been turned upside down by the news that the co-founder of one nation David Ettridge died after a long battle with cancer.

The 79-year-old former politician and former men’s clothing model, is supposed to have died on Wednesday South Australia.

Ettridge founded the One Nation Party next Pauline Hanson And David Oldfield In 1997, the role of national director until 2000.

He and Hanson were imprisoned in August 2003 after they were found guilty of the fraudulent registration of one nation in the court of Queensland.

The couple were eventually acquitted and their convictions were annulled in the Court of Appeal two and a half months later.

The two politicians reportedly fell after they were released from prison, with Ettridge claimed on ABC’s Four Corners in 2017 that a nation abandoned him.

Ettridge claimed that he had been left with debts and cost him his home and personal wealth, after the party had not compensated him for his legal costs.

One nation rejected this statement and told him to stop contact with the party.

Co-founder of the One Nation Party David Ettridge (photo) died at the age of 79

Ettridge founded the One Nation party alongside Pauline Hanson and David Oldfield in 1997

After the fallout, Ettridge stated one nation in 2004 ‘not present’ while he spoke The age.

“It now exists in the heads of a handful of people who hold on to a cadaver and those people, I think, are just lonely souls who need somewhere to go monthly meetings.”

In the same year he also published the book ‘Consider your judgment’ that suggested, whether someone is a ‘pollie’ or a ‘brickie’, the workplace can be difficult.

The book promised to give the reader the ‘edge to survive’.

Before Ettridge went into politics, Ettridge worked in sales and marketing, including for promotion companies Australia, Australian made and buy.

He was described as ‘cheerful and bluff’ and reportedly participated in a representation of interests and fundraising for Unicef ​​in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

Ettridge, who died after fought with cancer for more than ten years, is survived by his wife Ashley, three daughters and his grandchildren.