"Digging Australia out of the hole it's in" is the first priority for the One Nation Party candidate for Wannon.

Terang's Leo Curtain has put his hand up to run for the seat of Wannon in May's federal election as a candidate for Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party.

It's the first time the former Queensland man has run for politics, but he said he'd had the urge for some time.

"I suppose I got a little bit of an itch like that from my father," He said.

Mr Curtain's father ran a campaign in the 1960s against Joh Bjelke-Petersen, who would later go on to be the 31st Premier of Queensland.

Prior to his election run, Mr Curtain worked in the Queensland Police Force, where he worked at the Manus Island detention centre, as well as in the mining industry and repairing roads and infrastructure in his father's company. He has also spent several years living in Papua New Guinea.

He said those experiences shaped his political outlook.

Top priorities

Mr Curtain said if elected, at the top of his list would be stopping "out of control immigration" into the country.

"Australia used to be a very strong country, with its mix of people," he said.

"Now, I lived through the Vietnam War and through the immigration that produced, it had some problems.

"However, those problems are very minor now to the problems we've got in our cities with crime and integration."

The One Nation candidate said he believed increased immigration caused strain on "every aspect of Australian life" including additional pressure on the housing market, welfare, and hospital systems.

Mr Curtain said he believed when immigrants came to Australia, they should speak English exclusively.

He said he would also look at scrapping "woke" classes from schools and universities.

"Let's get back to schools teaching students, whether it be a primary school, middle school, high school, or university, training the students to think, not to act," he said.

"What I mean by that is our current system tells us that we've got to have some sort of cultural course to pass before you're allowed to even learn about what you want to do.

"We've gone too woke."

Mr Curtain said he decided to run with One Nation because he was inspired by party leader Pauline Hanson's will.

"I've watched this lady get kicked around by political parties and people even sent to jail," he said.

"She has fought and fought and fought, and she is what I would classify as a true Australian.

"She's out there trying to look after you and me, I admire the tenacity of that lady."