John Pasquarelli was born on 1937 and is an Australian former politician.
11 Facts About John Pasquarelli
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John Pasquarelli served as a member of the House of Assembly of Papua and New Guinea from 1964 to 1968, and as an advisor to One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
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John Pasquarelli worked in the opal fields at Coober Pedy for a year, before becoming a cadet patrol officer in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea in 1961.
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John Pasquarelli subsequently donated numerous items to the Papua New Guinea Museum.
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John Pasquarelli did not stand for re-election in 1968 after becoming disillusioned by the lack of development in Sepik, and returned to Australia later the same year.
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Back in Australia, John Pasquarelli unsuccessfully contested the Jagajaga electorate as the Liberal Party candidate in the 1987 federal elections, losing to the incumbent Labor MP Peter Staples.
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John Pasquarelli went to Western Australia in 1996 to assist anti-immigration former Labor MP Graeme Campbell in his re-election campaign as an independent; after the election, he became an advisor to the newly elected MP Pauline Hanson, in which capacity he reportedly wrote her maiden speech.
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John Pasquarelli was sacked by Hanson in December 1996, which he blamed on David Oldfield.
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John Pasquarelli subsequently became a prominent commentator on Hanson and her One Nation party; though he was vehemently critical of Oldfield and other One Nation figures, he remained supportive of Hanson personally.
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John Pasquarelli published a book about his experience with Hanson, The Pauline Hanson Story: By the Man Who Knows in 1998.
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John Pasquarelli ran as an independent in Bendigo in the 2001 elections, but finished eighth out of nine candidates with only 1,073 votes.