Mike Newman has brought his family to lunch. In the freshly renovated playground of the Cessnock Leagues Club, his Japanese wife is tending to their newborn son, while their young daughter is wrestling with an enormous scoop of mango ice-cream.
It is a rather multicultural tableau for a man who has just signed up to lead the NSW branch of One Nation, a party whose founder, Pauline Hanson , has spent three decades warning Australians about the dangers of foreign immigration.
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