David Oldfield (politician)

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David Ernest Oldfield (born 1958), was an Australian politician, former member of the New South Wales Legislative Council and current talkback radio host. He grew up in Manly, a beachside suburb of Sydney. In the 1990s he was prominent in municipal politics, representing the Liberal Party on Manly Council.

In 1996, while working as a senior staffer for Liberal federal MP Tony Abbott, Oldfield secretly founded the One Nation Party in concert with independent MP Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge.[citation needed] He and Ettridge, known as "the two Davids," were seen as the brains behind Hanson's populist rhetoric.

In her autobiography Pauline Hanson describes a two-week affair she states she had with David Oldfield.[1] Oldfield soon denied an affair by stating that he didn't have an intimate relationship with "that woman." His wife Lisa Oldfield said within the same report that the matter was "Glenn Close Fatal Attraction stuff."[2] Ten days later, Mr Oldfield apologised to his wife, for failing a public lie-detector test upon the matter.[3]

Oldfield won a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council at the March 1999 state elections, but he was expelled from One Nation by Hanson in 2000 and founded the separate One Nation NSW Political Party. In 2004 he left that party and sat as an Independent. In August 2006 he announced that he would not contest the March 2007 election.

In 2006 he was a contestant on Australia's Celebrity Survivor.

Oldfield commenced as a talkback radio host with Sydney radio station 2GB in November 2007.[4]

He is married to media commentator Lisa Oldfield, a co-host of Channel 9's TV show The Catch-Up. The couple divide their time between their home in Sydney and their Thoroughbred Horse Stud located in the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Ellen Connolly (18 March 2007). Pauline Hanson tells all. The Daily Telegraph.
  2. ^ Damien Murphy (19 March 2007). I did not have sex with that woman, Oldfield says of Hanson. The Sydney Morning Herald.
  3. ^ Oldfield apologises to wife after failing lie detector. The West Australian (29 March 2007).
  4. ^ Overnight with David Oldfield. 2GB. Retrieved on 2007-11-28.

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