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So, how long before the PHONies split apart, againnot long now  One Nation candidates David Miller and Dane Sorensen furious over WA Liberal preference deal
One Nation candidates in the WA election are threatening to disobey their own party on the controversial preference deal struck with the Liberal Party.
"I feel like I have just received a kick in the fangs by our own party," one candidate said in an email seen by 7.30.
"The party is selling me and the constituents out."
Now many of the party's candidates are openly defying the head office directive and threatening to give their own instructions of directing preferences.
Dane Sorensen and David Miller are two candidates who were prepared to go on the record for 7.30.
When they decided to run for One Nation in Western Australia, they did not expect to become bargaining chips.
But that is what the pair, who come from opposite ends of the political spectrum, believe they have become under the controversial deal between Pauline Hanson's One Nation party and the WA Liberals.
Under the deal, the Liberals will preference One Nation in all but one of the Upper House seats and in return will One Nation will preference the Liberals in all the lower house seats it is contesting.
Mr Sorensen, a former mining executive, and Mr Miller, an electrical fitter and traditional Labor voter, are united in their opposition to the backroom deal.
"I wasn't told — I found out about it in the Sunday Times and reading social media," Mr Miller, candidate for the seat of Collie-Preston, told 7.30.
"How it looks to me, [the deal] is to get people into the Upper House at the expense of people in the Lower House.
"[I'm] less than impressed."
Mr Sorensen, who is running in the seat of North West Central, says they should have been consulted.
"People are perceiving that One Nation are purely trying to get the Liberal Party re-elected and that's not what I joined the party for and it's certainly not what I stand for," he said.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-15/one-nation-candidates-furious-over-wa-libe...
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