Darren Connelly is sitting at his cluttered kitchen table, a 24-hour news channel paused on the TV in the living room.
Aged in his 60s, he's joined a political party for the first time in his life and thrown his support behind One Nation.
The earthmoving operator and former president of the local racing club says he typically voted for the Coalition, and once for Shooters, Fishers and Farmers when gun control was on the agenda.
His hometown of Kerang sits in the Murray Plains electorate, in northern Victoria, which has been a Nationals stronghold since the 1980s.
The local member is retiring at the November state election after 24 years.
Kerang is a short drive from the NSW border where earlier this year David Farley became One Nation's first federal MP at the Farrer by-election.
Gannawarra Shire mayor Garner Smith is the candidate One Nation hopes will wrest the seat from the Coalition.
Up until now, he's been linked with the National Party as an electorate officer and ministerial adviser for two Nationals politicians and as a Young Nationals state president.
The ABC approached One Nation to request an interview with Cr Smith but were told only written answers to questions were being provided.
Cr Smith told a council meeting this week he would step aside as mayor on September 30 and ask for his council allowance to be suspended, though he will remain a councillor to avoid leaving the council "unacceptably thin".
Mr Hosking says he doesn't see Murray Plains as a safe Nationals seat.