Meet Nicola Charles: a former Neighbours star turned full-time conspiracy carnival barker. Once known for playing Karl Kennedy’s mistress, Sarah Beaumont, she’s now better known for playing fast and loose with facts on her White Rabbit Podcast – a show that makes The X-Files look like a documentary. Let’s unpack how this British-Australian actress pivoted from soap opera drama to peddling paranoid fanfiction about the UN stealing your backyard.
Nicola’s career arc is wilder than a Neighbours wedding explosion. After her acting gigs fizzled (her IMDb page lists For Christ’s Sake as a career highlight, which says it all), she rebranded during the pandemic as “The White Rabbit” – a moniker that’s less Alice in Wonderland and more Alice in QAnon. Her podcast, co-hosted with One Nation candidates, claims to “follow the truth,” but mostly follows the same playbook as Infowars – minus the merch empire.
Key conspiracies served hot:
COVID-19 lockdowns: Railed against them while living in a country with some of the lowest death rates.
The Voice to Parliament: Declared it a “UN coup” to appoint “one man and one woman in every district” (because the UN definitely cares about your local council).
Vaccines: Alleged to have claimed mandates caused “medical harms” and “job losses,” ignoring that Australia’s economy rebounded faster than her acting career.
Nicola’s magnum opus? A viral video claiming the Voice referendum would let the UN seize private property. This theory spread faster than a Ramsay Street rumor, racking up 500,000+ views and forcing PM Albanese to debunk it publicly. Spoiler: The Voice had nothing to do with land rights, but why let facts ruin a good scare campaign?
Nostalgia for 1980s paranoia: Revived Cold War-era UN panic, endorsed by One Nation’s Malcolm Roberts (who called the UN a “socialist monolithic monster” in 2016).
Skyrocketing fear of $40 capsicums: Blaming Albanese for grocery prices is easier than admitting climate change exists.
Nicola’s not just a local loon – she’s a global player. In 2021, she praised Donald Trump as the “best president in modern history,” earning over 2,000 accusations of racism on Twitter. Fellow fan Sam Newman called her “smart, articulate, AND good-looking” – a trifecta that apparently excuses endorsing insurrections.
Nicola isn’t just ranting into the void. Her content fuels real harm:
Eroding democracy: Her Voice lies were shared 25,000+ times on Facebook, dwarfing official campaign posts.
Radicalising sovereign citizens: Her audience includes anti-vaxxers and that uncle who thinks the Illuminati run Bunnings.
Political ambitions: She ran for the Great Australian Party in 2025, proving even failed soap stars can grift their way into politics.
Nicola Charles is less a “truth seeker” and more a truth tweaker – bending reality to fit her grift. While she cosplays as a rebel, she’s just another cog in the outrage-industrial complex. The real tragedy? Australia’s political discourse now has more plot holes than her IMDb page.
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Who has ever heard of this vacuuminous vermin? Another yabbering nobody, a desertskulled dill, all larynx and no civilised educated thought.., just what the nation needs. Is brainlessness now the default position of all conservative airheads, Trumpery gone even more mad? "We" do need dialogue, debate, discussion, diplomacy, decision,...
I ran across her channel while researching the latest on ivermectin, you know the horse dewormer that won a Nobel Prize for 2 researchers.
https://rumble.com/v5hi5ot-gp-in-yr-3-of-suspension-for-prescribing-ivermectin.html?e9s=src_v1_upp
With an audience of between 1000-7000, I doubt if she is much of a threat to the big end of town. So, thanks for reminding us there are other independent voices.
First (and hopefully last) time I've ever heard of her. One of the nuts that fell of the looney tree that failed to germinate, thank goodness
White Rabbit, a song written by Grace Slick and recorded by Jefferson Airplane drew on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking-Glass; presumably Ms Charles thought she was being intelligent & pertinent in choosing this name for her podcast. Just another sub-par yabberer, of no significance.