Steven Ford is one of the more interesting One Nation identities running in the next Queensland election.

One Nation’s candidate for Nicklin, currently held by independent Peter Wellington, has impeccable conservative credentials:

Steven grew up in a conservative household with strong National Party values and ideals. At University he was the Branch Chairman and on the State Executive of the Young National Party. Steven has worked in different countries with different religions, cultures and politics and he appreciates how lucky we are to live in a society where we have the freedom to question our leaders and our policies but he strongly opposes the idea that we should change our behaviour, our language, our laws and ideals to placate a minority. Steven’s over-riding belief is that we are Australians and everyone who wants to share the benefits of living here must acknowledge and accept our language, our laws, our freedoms and our culture.

Ford also happens to be the father of Fairfax’s Clementine Ford, who so far hasn’t announced when she’ll be joining the campaign team.

UPDATE. Awkward:

Actually Barnaby, someone who says even hello to a person from One Nation IS a pariah. #qanda — Clementine Ford (@clementine_ford) February 21, 2011

@DavidOldfieldAU @dailytelegraph I really don't think someone with connections to One Nation has any business dictating who's 'worse'. — Clementine Ford (@clementine_ford) August 19, 2013

UPDATE II. In light of recent revelations, some of Clementine’s previous views on One Nation make for fascinating reading:

Poor, silenced conservatives. It must be dreadfully hard to experience the kind of oppression that involves people disagreeing with your ideas. For of course, this is what truly plagues people like Hanson and Bolt and the chorus line of similarly prominent and privileged mouthpieces who share their paranoia about a diminishing relevance in the world. When your Uncle Kev laments that "you're not allowed to say anything anymore," what he really means is that it's not fair that people can tell him he's wrong or offensive or racist or any other number of things that he most definitely is but feels aggrieved to labelled as. Similarly, when you hear people say of Hanson or Bolt or Donald Trump et al that "they're just saying what everyone else is thinking," what they really mean is "they're saying what I'm thinking". It gives them comfort to see people publicly flaunting their bigoted thoughts around religion, homosexuality, race politics and women (to name just a few things).

Women are "things"?

Hanson and her cohorts are not being "silenced". If they were, they wouldn't be lined up in the dozens to flog their cooked opinions across a variety of media platforms. What they're actually advocating for is an Australia where they can say whatever ludicrous, offensive and downright incorrect thing they want without having anyone publicly call them out on it or even fiercely disagree … And at its heart, where does this paranoia come from? It spawns from the fear of irrelevance.

Well, OK. If you say so.

UPDATE III. More from the Daily Mail, but not much more.