Political Career
In 1996 Oldfield was employed as a staff member by federal Liberal MP Tony Abbott. While there, Oldfield secretly founded the right wing One Nation Party in concert with independent MP Pauline Hanson and David Ettridge. He and Ettridge, known as "the two Davids," were seen as the brains behind Hanson's populist policies.
In her autobiography, Pauline Hanson describes a two-week affair she states she had with David Oldfield. Oldfield initially denied the affair but later failed a lie detector test and subsequently apologised for his deception.
Oldfield won a seat in the New South Wales Legislative Council at the March 1999 state election, but he was expelled from One Nation by Hanson in 2000 and founded a separate party, One Nation NSW. 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.
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