David Ettridge

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David William Ettridge (born June, 1945) in Adelaide, Australia, is an Australian businessman who co-founded Pauline Hanson's One Nation in 1997 with Pauline Hanson and David Oldfield.

Ettridge was One Nation's professional fundraiser and administered and marketed the One Nation party. Leading a small team he helped to set up 350 branches throughout Australia and admitted 18,000 members to the party.^[1]

On 20 August 2003, a jury from the District Court of Queensland convicted Hanson and Ettridge of electoral fraud and the Chief Judge sentenced both to three years without parole for fraudulently registering the One Nation Party. However, on 6 November 2003, the Queensland Court of Appeal quashed both convictions and Ettridge and Hanson were released from gaol.^[2] In 2004, Ettridge published a book in 2004 regarding the fraud conviction and acquital.^[3]^[1]

Since his release from gaol, Ettridge has written 3 books, invented 2 board games, 1 selling in 9 countries and returned to his native South Australia where he continues to be entrepreneurial in his business activities.^{[citation needed]}