One Nation enters Corangamite race

ONE Nation has also entered the fray in Corangamite, with candidate Colin Seabrook set to contest the Labor-held electorate at next month’s poll.

Mr Seabrook cited sustainable energy generation, border security, housing affordability aided by the lowering of construction costs and an ending to foreign ownership, and tougher sentences for repeat offenders among the key focus areas of his campaign.

He also wants to see defence spending increase and a clamp down on what he describes as “inappropriate” immigration.

He promised a vote for One Nation on May 3 was a vote for “common sense” and an individual who’s “not afraid to call it as it is”.

A lifelong small business owner, Mr Seabrook has run an equipment leasing operation in Melton, where he is based, for more than 30 years.

He said the location of his own home, which is situated not in the Corangamite electorate but in an outer Melbourne suburb, was a “moot point” as Parliament House is in Canberra.

Mr Seabrook said he chose to contest Corangamite, where One Nation earned 2.5 per cent of the primary vote in the 2022 poll, because he is up for the “challenge”.

“We’ve got to get rid of Labor… we’re out of money, the country’s broke, broke, broke and there’s no means of paying it back.

“Both Liberal and Labor, they’re promising stuff they have not got the money for.

“They have to borrow that money and then pay interest on that money, but I’ve been in business for many, many years as well and if I run a business like that, I’d be bankrupt.”