Canberra Raiders great Steve Jackson has been a grand final hero, a chicken shop owner, and a real estate agent, but now he has his sights set on politics.
The legendary Raider who scored the game-winning try for the Green Machine in the 1989 grand final against Balmain will head to the polling booth on Saturday hoping to be elected the new mayor of Mackay.
"I'm just learning on my feet and I get quite anxious whether I say the right or wrong things, but at the end of the day all my friends say to me - just be you," Jackson told The Canberra Times.
"That's why people like me ... it's because what they see is what they get, and in the...