Rod Caddies

Rod Caddies is an Australian politician. He is a member of the Western Australian Legislative Council and the leader of One Nation Western Australia. He was elected to the council at the 2025 Western Australian state election, the first under the state's new single statewide electoral system for the upper house.

Early life and career Caddies grew up partly on a farm in the Manjimup area of the South West of Western Australia. In his inaugural speech to the Legislative Council, he said he had been raised for much of his childhood by a single mother with seven children and had spent periods in government care, foster homes and group homes.

Caddies has worked in child protection, construction and mining, and has been an army reservist. He was the party's endorsed candidate at the 2018 Darling Range state by-election, and again contested a Legislative Council seat at the 2021 Western Australian state election. and led One Nation's Western Australian campaign for the 2025 state and federal elections.

Election to Parliament Caddies was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council at the 2025 Western Australian state election, held on 8 March 2025. He has used parliamentary questions and motions to pursue issues including regional police station staffing, the cost of state election campaigning, housing supply and population growth.

Caddies has described himself as socially conservative and a Christian, and in his inaugural speech said he opposed government COVID-19 vaccination mandates introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic on the grounds of bodily autonomy. He supports retaining coal in the state's energy mix and is critical of net-zero emissions policies.

Personal life Caddies lives in Perth. He is married to Monique, with whom he runs a family horse-riding school, and the couple have three children. He is a Christian.