Warren Pickering

Warren Pickering (born 1983) is an Australian politician, serving as Leader of One Nation Victoria since August 2026. He is running in the 2026 Victorian state election, contesting the seat of Pakenham.

Biography Pickering grew up on a potato farm in Gippsland and has worked as a bricklayer, in the Queensland coal industry, and as a combat engineer for the Australian Defence Force.

Pickering is president of the Victorian branch of One Nation, he was a candidate in the 2022 Australian Senate election as well as the following election in 2025. He is the One Nation candidate for the seat of Pakenham in south-east Melbourne.

Political views

Pickering has claimed that Australian government policy is controlled by a cabal of foreign "globalists", and endorsed the idea that the world economy was deliberately crashed to trigger a "great reset".

Pickering has opposed vaccines since at least 2017 and has made claims that Australian and Victorian government policies are directed by the United Nations and World Economic Forum and promoted the conspiracy that the 15-minute city urban planning idea is a government plan to limit movement.

Pickering opposes remigration and Mass deportations.