Farmers Fightback chair Ben Duxson co-hosted the event with One Nation. (ABC News: Tamara Clark)
Warren Pickering, Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce revealed some energy policies to a crowd of 1,000 One Nation supporters in the small western Victorian town of Marnoo last night.
The party's Victorian leader said coal and gas were the state's future and Pauline Hanson said Victoria should be considering nuclear.
Donna Buxton will run as One Nation's state candidate for Ripon.
One Nation has revealed some of its energy policies to a crowd of 1,000 supporters in western Victoria, promising to reinvest in coal and gas, and ditch renewable energy projects.
The party was the headline act for a Farmers Fightback rally in the small Wimmera town of Marnoo last night, where anger over the VNI West transmission project is boiling over.
Farmers Fightback is a farmer-led group that protests against large-scale renewable energy and transmission-line projects on agricultural land.
Farmers rally at the Marnoo recreation reserve in support of One Nation. (ABC News: Tamara Clark)
One Nation's Victorian leader Warren Pickering told the crowd that, if elected, his party would remove energy infrastructure company VicGrid's compulsory acquisition powers for the highly controversial transmission line needed to bring wind power into the electricity grid.
Warren Pickering discusses his campaign with a constituent. (ABC News: Tamara Clark)
"But more importantly than that, we'll abolish the renewable energy zone that we are on here tonight," Mr Pickering said.
Federal One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce will continue their Victorian tour in Gippsland tomorrow, buoyed by the party's breakthrough by-election win in Western Australia yesterday.
Barnaby Joyce claps in support of Ben Duxson's speech at the Marnoo event. (ABC News: Tamara Clark)
In a rare interview with the ABC, Pauline Hanson said that Victoria should consider new coal-fired power stations and nuclear reactors.
Pauline Hanson speaking with farming communities at Marnoo. (ABC News: Tamara Clark)
