{{Short description|Australian businessman (born 1945)}} {{Use Australian English|date=January 2016}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = David Ettridge | citizenship = Australian | image = | caption = | office1 = National Director of One Nation | president1 = Pauline Hanson | term_start1 = 11 April 1997 | term_end1 = 15 January 2000<br>Alongside David Oldfield | predecessor1 = ''Party established; office created'' | successor1 = John Fischer | birth_name = David William Ettridge | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=y|1945|06|8}} | birth_place = Adelaide, South Australia, Australia | occupation = Corporate fundraising director<br>(United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund)<br>(World Vision Australia)<br>Business marketing strategist<br>(self-employed)<br>(Pauline Hanson's One Nation) | profession = Businessman<br>philanthropist<br>politician | death_date = | death_place = | party = Independent (after 2002) | other_party = Pauline Hanson's One Nation (1997—2002) | signature = | footnotes = | website = {{URL|davidettridge.com/}} }} '''David William Ettridge''' (born 8 June 1945) is an Australian businessman who co-founded Pauline Hanson's One Nation in 1997 with Pauline Hanson and David Oldfield.
Ettridge was One Nation's professional fundraiser and administered and marketed the One Nation party. Leading a small team he helped to set up 350 branches throughout Australia and admitted 18,000 members to the party.<ref name=verdict>{{Cite web|url=http://www.australian-news.com.au/David_Ettridge.htm|title=Consider Your Verdict – David Ettridge's gripping new book|author=Martin Lehmann|date=24 March 2005}}</ref> On 20 August 2003, a jury from the District Court of Queensland convicted Hanson and Ettridge of electoral fraud and the Chief Judge sentenced both to three years without parole for fraudulently registering the One Nation Party. Prosecutors had alleged that the use of a list of 500 paid-up members of a One Nation supporters group as members for the purpose of registering the party had been fraudulent. A police report which advised the Queensland Director of Public Prosecutions that no offence had been committed was never revealed by the Crown and DPP.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/one-nation-founder-s-conviction-quashed-1-493063 | location=Edinburgh | work=The Scotsman | date=7 November 2003|title=One Nation founder's conviction quashed|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022074327/http://www.scotsman.com/news/international/one-nation-founder-s-conviction-quashed-1-493063|archive-date=22 October 2012}}</ref> However, on 6 November 2003, the Queensland Court of Appeal quashed both convictions and Ettridge and Hanson were released from jail.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/qjudgment/QCA%202003/QCA03-488.pdf|title=R v Hanson; R v Ettridge [2003] QCA 488|author=de Jersey CJ, McMurdo P and Davies JA|publisher=Supreme Court of Queensland|date=6 November 2003|access-date=25 April 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051029184124/http://www.courts.qld.gov.au/qjudgment/QCA%202003/QCA03-488.pdf|archive-date=29 October 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2004, Ettridge published a book regarding the fraud conviction and acquittal.<ref name=verdict/><ref>''Consider your verdict'' ({{ISBN|174110232-4}}) published by New Holland Publishers Pty, Limited</ref>
Following an extensive Queensland Fraud Squad investigation, the Queensland Police advised the Queensland Director of Public Prosecutions that no offence had been committed. Ettridge used his own money for his legal defense, on the understanding that One Nation would repay him, but he states that he has never been repaid.<ref>{{cite news|title=One Nation co-founder accuses party of abandoning him|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-04-04/one-nation-co-founder-accuses-party-of-abandoning-him/8412890|access-date=4 April 2017|work=ABC News|date=4 April 2017}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}}
==Further reading== * Scott Balson (2000), ''Inside One Nation. The inside story on a people's party born to fail'', Interactive Presentations, Mt Crosby News (Queensland), {{ISBN|0-9577415-2-9}} * David Ettridge (2004), ''Consider Your Verdict'', New Holland Publishers, Frenchs Forest (New South Wales) {{ISBN|1-74110-232-4}} * Pauline Hanson (2007), ''Untamed and Unashamed – Pauline Hanson's autobiography'', Jo-Jo Publishing, Docklands (Victoria) {{ISBN|978-0-9802836-2-4}}
==External links== *[http://www.abc.net.au/queensland/stories/s1182991.htm David Ettridge profile] at ABC News *[http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/lm/stories/s992628.htm David Ettridge: The View From The 'Outside']
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