Francis Carson "Frank" Hough (born 12 April 1944) is a former Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n politician. Born in Subiaco

Subiaco, Western Australia

Subiaco is an inner western suburb of Perth, Western Australia, situated to the north west of Kings Park. Its Local Government Area is the City of Subiaco.-History:Prior to European settlement the area was home to the Noongar Indigenous people....

, Western Australia

Western Australia

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, he was a self-employed business proprietor before entering politics. In 2001, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council

Western Australian Legislative Council

The Legislative Council, or upper house, is one of the two chambers of parliament in the Australian state of Western Australia. Its central purpose is to act as a house of review for legislation passed through the lower house, the Legislative Assembly. It sits in Parliament House in the state...

 for Agricultural Region

Electoral region of Agricultural

The electoral region of Agricultural is a multi-member electoral region of the Western Australian Legislative Council, located in the South West, Peel and part of the Great Southern regions of the state...

 as a member of One Nation. After the resignation from the party of Paddy Embry

Paddy Embry

Patrick "Paddy" Embry is a former Australian politician. Born in Oundle in the United Kingdom, he arrived in Australia in December 1956 and became a farmer. In 2001, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for South West Region, representing One Nation. On 15 May 2003, he...

 in 2003, he and John Fischer

John Fischer (politician)

John Duncombe Fischer is a former Australian politician. Born in Fremantle, Western Australia, he was a business proprietor before entering politics. In 2001, he was elected to the Western Australian Legislative Council for Mining and Pastoral, representing One Nation...

 were One Nation's only MPs in Western Australia. On 1 June 2004, he and Fischer both resigned from the party to sit as independent

Independent (politician)

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s. On 30 November 2004, Hough and Embry co-founded the New Country Party

New Country Party

The New Country Party is a minor political party in Australia. It emerged out of the internal divisions of the One Nation Party in Queensland and Western Australia in 2003 and was registered by the Australian Electoral Commission on 9 January 2004...

, and contested the 2005 state election

Western Australian state election, 2005

Elections were held in the state of Western Australia on 26 February 2005 to elect all 57 members to the Legislative Assembly and all 34 members to the Legislative Council...

as such. Both were defeated.