‘A story because it involves a One Nation candidate’: Macpherson defends Pickering

​News24 host James Macpherson argues One Nation Victoria Leader Warren Pickering’s “messy” past should not disqualify him from holding office. ​”It seems like Australian politics has reached the point where the worst thing you can possibly have in your past is a past,” Mr Macpherson said. ​”I can't help but think it became a story because it involved a One Nation candidate. ​“Most people aren't born as politicians; they're born as human beings. ​“Some politicians even have the extraordinary misfortune of having been young before they became politically useful.”