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Pauline Lee Hanson (née Seccombe, formerly Zagorski) is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation, a right-wing nationalist group formed in 2005.

She has been a Senator for Queensland since 2016. Before entering politics as a member of Ipswich City Council in 1994, Hanson operated a fish and chip shop.

In 1995, she was voted for the Division of Oxley in the 1996 federal election.

She was disapproved shortly before the election after making unpopular remarks about Indigenous Australians, but the Liberal Party remained unchanged.

Hanson won the election and assumed her position as an independent before co-founding One Nation in 1997 and becoming the country's first MP. At the 1998 federal election, she attempted to change to Division of Blair, but was unsuccessful. After losing in 1998, Hanson ran for many state and federal elections as the leader of One Nation and an independent.

In 2002, she was kicked out of One Country.

Hanson was found guilty of electoral fraud in 2003 by a District Court jury, but her convictions were later reversed by three judges on the Queensland Court of Appeal.

Before the appeal was heard, she was in jail for 11 weeks. Hanson returned to One Country in 2013 and became the leader again the following year.

She was barely defeated in the 2015 Queensland state election and was elected to the Senate alongside three other members of her party.

Personal life

Hanson lives in Beaudesert, Queensland, on a large farm. She also owns a house in New South Wales' Hunter Valley.

Hanson and her younger children were covered by security for extended stretches of time every day during her first term in office. Hanson was almost complete, and although her younger children were largely out of public view, they were escorted to-and-from school and onto other school activities. Before being re-distributed back to the office, the mail received at Hanson's office was moved to another location and checked.

Hanson obtained a real estate licence in 2006.

Hanson (then Pauline Seccombe) married Walter Zagorski, a former field representative and mining industry labourer from Poland who had escaped war-torn Europe with his mother and arrived in Australia as refugees in 1971. He met Hanson while both working for Abbott's Elliots Ltd. They had two children. Hanson left Zagorski in 1975 after finding that he had been involved in several extramarital affairs. They reconciled briefly in 1977, but then divorced Zagorski from Hanson for another woman later that year.

Hanson (then Pauline Zagorski) married Mark Hanson, a divorced tradesman who worked on the Gold Coast in Queensland, in 1980. They honeymooned in South-East Asia. Amanda (born 1977), from his previous marriage, was Mark Hanson's daughter, and he and Hanson had two children together: Adam (born 1981) and Lee (born 1984). Hanson was in charge of the administrative and bookkeeping aspects of the company, and she may occasionally help her husband with more practical duties. Hanson has written about her difficult marriage, in which alcohol use and domestic violence affected her family. They divorced in 1987 after they divorced.

Hanson began a friendship with Morrie Marsden, a businessman in Queensland, in 1988. They developed a catering service under the ownership of Marsden Hanson Pty Ltd and operated from their fish and chips store, Marsden's Seafood in Silkstone, Queensland. Marsden served on Hanson's bid for political office in Oxley's seat in 1996 and was a member of her staff after her election. Marsden left the relationship when Hanson began to be surrounded by national and international media attention for her views. In 1994, Hanson began a friendship with Ipswich man Rick Gluyas. Gluyas urged her to run in the 1994 Ipswich City Council election, which she also won. Both were elected. Hanson and Gluyas' relationship came a long time after this, with Hanson retaining the house and property they had rented jointly at Coleyville, near Ipswich, near Coleyville, near Ipswich.

Hanson began a friendship with David Oldfield in 1996. All of Hanson's relationships with Oldfield ended when he was kicked out of Pauline Hanson's One Country in 2000.

Hanson began working with Chris Callaghan, a country music performer and political activist, in 2005. He wrote and produced "The Australian Way of Life," which was used in Hanson's 2007 campaign for the Australian Senate under her new United Australia Party. Hanson revealed that she and Callaghan were engaged in 2007. However, Hanson broke off the friendship in 2008, which was disappointing.

Hanson began a collaboration with property developer and real estate agent Tony Nyquist in 2011 when campaigning for the New South Wales Legislative Council.

In 2000, a 1999 civil suit brought disgruntled former One Nation activist Terry Sharples to a finding of fraud while registering One Country as a political party, Hanson filed a protest against supporters for donations.

A jury in the District Court of Queensland convicted Hanson and David Ettridge of electoral fraud on August 20, 2003. Both Hanson and Ettridge were sentenced to three years in prison for mistakenly stating that 500 members of the Pauline Hanson Support Movement were members of the political party Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Hanson's receipt of political contributions worth $498,637 resulted in two additional convictions for dishonestly obtaining property, both with three-year sentences, to run concurrently with the first because the registration was found to be unlawful. The sentence was widely circulated in the media and some politicians as being too harsh.

It was "a very long, unconditional sentence," according to John Howard, and Bronwyn Bishop said Hanson was a political prisoner, comparing her deposition to Robert Mugabe's treatment of Zimbabwean prisoners. The sentence was widely condemned in the media for being too harsh.

The Queensland Court of Appeal quashed all of Hanson and Ettridge's charges on November 6, 2003, the day after delivering the appeal. Hanson, who had been in prison for 11 weeks, was released alongside Ettridge shortly after. The court's unanimous decision was that the facts contradicted a conclusion that were beyond reasonable doubt that the individuals on the list were not members of the Pauline Hanson's One Country Party and that Hanson and Ettridge were aware of this when they applied to register the party. According to reports, the charges regarding registration were quashed. The convictions relating to funding, which were based on the same facts, were also quashed. This decision did not specifically follow the Sharples case, where the trial judge's finding of such misconduct had not been reversed in the appeal by Hanson and Ettridge. The case was characterized as a civil suit in administrative law as to the party's registration by electoral Commissioner O'Shea's decision, which was based on probabilities only. Chief Justice Paul de Jersey, with whom the other two judges agreed overall, suggested that if Hanson, Ettridge, and particularly the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions had hired better lawyers from the start, the whole case may not have taken so long or not have been avoided altogether. Margaret McMurdo, the Court of Appeal president, rebuked numerous politicians, including John Howard and Bronwyn Bishop MHR. "A lack of knowledge of the Rule of Law" and "an effort to influence the decision of the District Court and to jeopardize the judiciary's autonomy for cynical political motives," she said, although she lauded other leading Coalition politicians for supporting the District Court's decision.

Hanson appeared on numerous television shows, including Dancing with the Stars, Enough Rope, Who Wants to Be a Millionaire, and This is Your Life.

Hanson was a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice in 2011.

Following Pauline Hanson's relaunch of her One Nation party in the 2016 federal Senate race, the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS) produced a video explaining a fact.

Hanson was accused of sexually assaulting fellow Senator Brian Burston on February 14, 2019. In an incident that occurred in 1998 and propositioned him after he was elected in 2016, Burston said Hanson "rubbed her fingers up my spine." Hanson sent a "malicious" text message to Burston's wife, claiming he was infatuated with another employee. Hanson has denied allegations of sexual assault.

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Early life and career

Hanson was born in Woolloongabba, Queensland, on May 27th. She was the fifth of seven children (and the youngest) to John Alfred "Jack" Seccombe and Hannorah Alousius (née Webster). She began attending Buranda Girls' School in Buranda before beginning Coorparoo State School until she stopped attending Coorparoo State School at age 15, shortly before her first marriage and pregnancy.

In Ipswich, Queensland, Jack and Norah Seccombe operated a fish and chip shop, where Hanson and her siblings worked from a young age, preparing meals and receiving orders. She helped her parents with more administrative tasks in bookkeeping and sales ledgering as they aged.

Hanson served at Woolworths before joining Taylors Elliotts Ltd, a Drug Houses of Australia affiliate (now Bickford's Australia), where she was responsible for accounting and secretariatry duties. During her first pregnancy, she left Taylors Elliotts.

Hanson (then Pauline Zagorski) met Mark Hanson, a tradesman on Queensland's Gold Coast in 1978. They married in 1980 and formed a roofing company specializing in roof plumbing. Hanson handled the company's administrative aspects, which were similar to her Taylors Elliott's, while her husband dealt with real estate. In 1987, the couple divorced and the firm was liquidated. She returned to Ipswich and spent as a barmaid at Booval Bowls Club. Morrie Marsden, Hanson's current market partner, later purchased a fish and chip store. They formed Marsden Hanson Pty Ltd and started operating from their newly opened fish and chip shop in Silkstone, a suburb of Ipswich. Hanson and Marsden shared the company's administrative duties, but Hanson took on additional practical duties, including purchasing supplies and produce for the shop and preparing the food, which was one of many aspects that contributed to her notoriety in her first political run. Hanson retained full control of the corporation, which was purchased following her re-election to Parliament in 1996.

Political career

Hanson's first election to office was in 1994, winning a seat on the Ipswich City Council due to a resistance to more funds. She served for 11 months before being forced to leave in 1995 due to administrative changes.

In 1996, she joined the Liberal Party of Australia and was endorsed as the Liberal nominee for the seat of Oxley, which is based on Ipswich, in the federal election of March 1996. The seat was once thought of as a labor stronghold at the time. Les Scott, the Labour incumbent, gained a landslide majority of almost 65%, making it the Queensland's safest Labor seat. Hanson was initially dismissed and ignored by the media as she had no chance of winning the seat. However, Hanson drew widespread media attention when she announced that the abolishment of special government assistance for Aboriginal Australians leading up to the election, but that the Liberal Party had condemned her. Hanson had already been published in Ballot papers, and the Australian Electoral Commission had closed nominations for the position. As a result, Hanson was still rated as the Liberal candidate when elections were cast, even though Liberal leader John Howard had announced that she would not be allowed to vote with the Liberals if elected. Hanson led the first count on the first count and had enough Democrat preferences to over Scott on the sixth count on election night. Her win came as a result of Labor's near-meltdown in Queensland, which saw it cut down to just two seats in the state. Hanson gained 56% of the two-candidate preferred vote. Had she run as a Liberal, the 19.3-point swing would have been the largest two-party swing of the election. Since Hanson had been disapproved, she ran for parliament as an independent.

Hanson gave her first address to the House of Representatives on September 10, 1996, which was widely covered in the media. "I gained the seat of Oxley largely because of an issue that has resulted in my being branded a racist," Hanson said in her opening lines. Aboriginals received more benefits than non-Aboriginals, according to my comment that Aboriginals received more than non-Aboriginals." Hanson continued that Australia was in danger of being "swamped by Asians" and that these immigrants "have their own history and faith, form ghettos, and do not assimilate." Hanson argued that "mainstream Australians" were now subjected to "a form of reverse bigotry... by those who promote political correctness and those who control the various publicly funded 'industries' that thrive in our society's service Aboriginals, multiculturalists, and a slew of other ethnic groups." "Present governments are encouraging secession in Australia by providing only to Aboriginals with opportunities, land, and facilities that are otherwise unobtainable."

Hanson criticized the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), citing "anyone with a criminal record can, and does, have a position with ATSIC." A short series of articles on family breakdown, youth unemployment, international debt, the Family Law Act, child care, and privatization of Qantas and other national enterprises followed. The address also included an attack on immigrants and multiculturalism, a call for the revival of high-tariff protectionism, and critique of economic rationalism. Her speech was uninterrupted by her fellow parliamentarians as it was the courtesy extended to MPs who gave their first addresses.

Hanson, David Oldfield, and David Ettridge formed the Pauline Hanson's One Country political group in February 1997. As she established a support base for the new party, disenchanted rural voters attended her meetings in regional centres around Australia. According to an opinion poll released in May, the party was attracting 9 percent of Australian voters and that its success was primarily due to the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition's base.

Hanson's appearance in Dandenong, Victoria, to announce her party was met with marches on July 7, 1997, with 3,000–5,000 protesters protesting outside. In reaction to Hanson's appearance, the Greater Dandenong City Council administered a vigil and multicultural festival, while an anti-racism body arranged a protest. The majority of attendees were from Asia, where an open platform attracted leaders of the Vietnamese, Chinese, East Timorese, and Sri Lankan groups. Representatives from churches, local community groups, lesbian, and socialist organisations all attended and addressed the audience.

One Country's late 1990s incarnation demanded zero net migration, an end to multiculturalism, and a revival of Australia's Anglo-Celtic cultural heritage, the abolition of native titles and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission (ATSIC), an end to special Aboriginal funding services, resistance to Aboriginal reconciliation, which the party claims will include two nations, and a study of the 1967 constitutional referendum, which gave the Commonwealth power to legislate for Aborigines The party's economic position was to encourage protectionism and trade retaliation, tightened controls on foreign capital, capital flow, and general decline in globalization's position on the Australian economy. One Nation opposed privatization, competition policy, and the GST, even though stating that a government-subsidized people's bank would provide 2 percent loans to farmers, small businesses, and manufacturers. One Nation's foreign policy requested a study of Australia's United Nations membership, a condemnation of Australia's UN treaties, an end to foreign assistance, and a ban on foreigners from owning Australian property.

The Australian revealed that support for One Nation had decreased from 22% to 5% in 1999. Lenny Spencer, one of the nation's top candidates, blamed the press and party founder David Oldfield for the October 1998 election loss, although the media announced the change of priorities away from One Nation as the primary reason, with a lack of party unity, poor policy choices, and a "inability to work with the media" was also responsible.

An electoral redistribution virtually split Oxley in half heading into the 1998 federal election. When picking up the heavily pro-Labor suburb of Inala, Oxley was reconfigured as a marginal labor seat, losing the majority of the city's more rural and exurban area. In the rural area surrounding Ipswich, a new seat of Blair was created. Hanson knew that her chances of retaining the reconfigured Oxley were slim, especially after former Labor state premier Wayne Goss won preselection for the position. After considering whether or not to run for a Senate seat—which, by most accounts, she would have been strongly expected to win—she decided to oppose Blair. Despite the fact that the majority of the feminist majority (18.7%) has remained in the area, the bulk of her base had been relocated.

Hanson's 1998 election campaign centered on jobs rather than a focus on race/ethnicity or "the people" against "the elites. Rather than focusing on unemployment and the desire to produce more jobs through government programs, Hanson argued that rather than using apprenticeships or doing something about tariffs, businesses could prosper.

Hanson captured 36 percent of the primary vote, just over 10% more than Virginia Clarke, the second-place Labor candidate. However, with all three major parties praising each other ahead of Hanson, Liberal candidate Cameron Thompson was able to win the seat despite finishing third place on the first count. Thompson outlasted Clarke on National preferences and defeated Hanson on Labor preferences. Thompson has argued that Hanson's complaint against parodist Pauline Pantsdown was a distraction from the campaign that resulted in her defeat.

One Nation gained 89.99 percent of the Senate electors and 8.4% of the Representatives' vote, but only one senator was elected – Len Harris as a Senator for Queensland. Heather Hill had been elected to this position, but the High Court of Australia ruled that, although she was an Australian citizen, she was still eligible for election to serve as a senator because she had not renounced her British citizenship. The Supreme Court found that, at least since 1986, Britain had counted as a "foreign power" within the Constitution's meaning of section 44(i) was found. Hanson wrote a book in 2007 and she wrote Untamed & Unashamed that a number of other politicians held dual citizenship, but that did not prevent them from seeking seats in Parliament.

Tony Abbott's 1998 venture, "Australians for Honest Politics Trust," helped with civil court proceedings against the One Country Party and Hanson herself. John Howard denied knowing that such a fund existed. Abbott was also accused of giving One Nation dissident Terry Sharples funds to fund his court fight against the group. Howard, on the other hand, defended Abbott's innocence in this situation. Abbott acknowledged that the threat One Nation faced to the Howard Government was "a major factor" in his decision to pursue the court challenge, but he also stated that he was acting "in Australia's national interest." Howard continued to support Abbott's remarks, saying, "It's the job of the Liberal Party to morally condemn other groups."

During her campaign and then took her first seat in the House, Hanson received a lot of media attention. Her first speech drew significant notice because it included discussions of Aboriginal rights, education, and multiculturalism. Hanson spoke out on social and economic topics, including the need for a fairer child support service service program and concern about the emergence of the working class poor in Parliament. She also called for a more accountable and efficient handling of Indigenous affairs. Hanson's supporters viewed her as an ordinary individual who posed 'political legitimacy' as a threat to Australia's national identity.

The response of the mainstream political parties was hostile, with parliament passing a motion (supported by all members except Graeme Campbell) condemning her views on migration and multiculturalism. However, at the time, Prime Minister John Howard refused to censure Hanson or comment critically about her, acknowledging that the expression of such views was shared by many Australians as confirmation that the "pall of political correctness" had been removed in Australia and that Australians could now "speak a little more freely and a little more openly about what they feel."

Howard was quickly branded a "strong leader" and said Australians were now free to address problems without being identified as a bigot or racial," Hanson said. Hanson attracted populist anti-immigration sentiment and the notice of the Citizens' Electoral Council, the Australian League of Rights, and other right-wing organisations over the next few months. Despite an election promise to maintain immigration numbers, Minister Phillip Ruddock declared a tougher government line on refugees and reduced the family reunion intake by 10,000. Various academic researchers, corporate leaders, and several state premiers slammed Ruddock's argument that the layoffs had been compelled by high unemployment. Several ethnic groups protested that this attack on multiculturalism was a cynical reaction to opinion polls revealing Hanson's growing success. Hanson took credit for compeling the government to obey the government's hand.

Hanson ran for a Queensland senate seat at the next federal election on November 10, 2001, but narrowly failed. She accounted for her declining success by claiming that the Liberals under John Howard had stolen her programs.

Her political decline from 1998 to 2002 involved a number of factors, including her relationship with a string of advisors with whom she ultimately disregarded (John Pasquarelli, David Ettridge, and David Oldfield); political controversies among her followers; and a litigation concerning One Nation's administrative structure.

Hanson unsuccessfully contested the New South Wales state election in 2003, after being released from jail. Hanson denied that she did not intend to return to politics in January 2004. However, in the 2004 federal election, I ran as an outsider running for one of Queensland's seats in the Senate. "I don't want all the hangers on," Hanson said at the time. I don't want the advisors and everyone else. "I want it to be this time," Pauline Hanson says. She was dissatisfied with only 31.7 percent of the required primary vote quota, and she did not get enough additional votes by preferences. However, she gained more votes than the One Nation party (4.5 percent to 3.14%) and, unlike her predecessors, recovered her deposit from the Australian Electoral Commission and obtained $150,000 in public electoral funding. Hanson denied being chastised for campaign funding.

At the 2009 Queensland state election, Hanson challenged Beaudesert's electoral district as an independent. She came third in third place after an election marked by debate over hoax photographs, according to Liberal National Party's Aidan McLindon and Labor's Brett McCreadie. According to various media outlets, there were contradictory claims about whether she had said she would not pursue another election.

Hanson said on July 23, 2010, while attending an event promoting her new role as a motivational speaker, she expressed interest in returning to the political stage as a Liberal contender in the 2010 federal election. No such offer was made.

Hanson ran as an outsider in the 2011 state election but was not elected, receiving 2.41 percent of the primary statewide vote but losing on preferences. Hanson argued that "dodgy staff" employed by the NSW Electoral Commission gained 1,200 votes for her in a pile of blank ballots, with her saying she had a forwarded NSW Electoral Commission internal email as proof of this. Hanson began legal proceedings to challenge the result of the election in the NSW Supreme Court, which sat as the Court of Disputed Returns was dismissed.

Hanson's allegations were unsubstantial from the start of proceedings. On June 8, 2011 "Rattner," the man who alerted Hanson to the alleged emails, who referred to him as "Michael Rattner," failed to appear in court on June 8.

"Michael Rattner" was a pun on Mickey Mouse, and reports connected the pseudonym to an "anti-voter-fraud" group led by Amy McGrath and Alasdair Webster.

Castle apologised to the court and was granted immunity from prosecution by Justice McClellan before being ordered to answer questions concerning the fraudulent email. Hanson's court fees of more than $150,000 would be paid by the state of New South Wales, angering Greens MP Jeremy Buckingham, who would have been fired by Hanson if her appeal had been successful. "This lack of judgment shows that she is unsuitable for public office," Buckingham said when questioning whether Hanson's court action should have continued at all given the facts. After receiving the fraudulent email, Hanson had no other option but to take legal action, according to the judge.

David Oldfield, a senior politician of One Country, was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1999, the state parliament's upper house. However, Oldfield was banned from One Nation in 2000 for a suspected verbal dispute with Hanson. One Nation NSW, a splinter group established within weeks, had existed for Oldfield for a week.

One Nation gained three seats in the Western Australian Legislative Council in 2001, but One Nation's electoral triumph soon fell after this period, prompting a further lack of party unity and a sequence of gaffes by One Nation members and candidates, particularly in Queensland.

Hanson resigned from One Nation in January 2002, and John Fischer, Western Australia's State Leader, was elected the Federal President of One Nation.

Hanson's United Australia Party formed Pauline's United Australia Party on May 24th. Hanson ran for one of Queensland's seats in the Senate in 2007, receiving over 4 percent of total votes under that banner. The party's name is based on the name of the illustrious United Australia Party. "I have had all the major political parties attack me, been kicked out of my own party, and ended up in prison, but I don't give up." "Welcome everybody, no matter where you come from," Hanson's campaign song "Australian Way of Life" debuted in October 2007.

Hanson revealed in 2010 that she intended to deregister Pauline's United Australia Party, sell her Queensland home, and move to the United Kingdom after a fruitless campaign in the 2009 Queensland state election. Nick Griffin, the leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP), was warmly welcomed on the news. Hanson said she would not sell her house to Muslims when considering moving. However, Hanson said in November 2010 that she had not to move to the United Kingdom because it was "overrun with immigrants and refugees" following an extended holiday in Europe. Hanson lives in Beaudesert, Queensland.

Hanson declared in 2013 that she would run in the 2013 federal election. She returned to One Nation to run as a Senate candidate in New South Wales. She did not win a seat in the first preference vote, attracting just over 22%.

Following the support of One Nation party members, Hanson revealed in November 2014 that she had returned as the leader of One Nation prior to the party's announcement. In the 2015 Queensland state election, she has declared that she will contest Lockyer's seat. Lockyer's seat was held by one nation from 1998 to 2004. Hanson lost the seat by a narrow margin in February 2015.

Hanson declared in mid-2015 that she would run for Queensland in the 2016 federal election, as well as the endorsement of several other candidates around Australia. She appeared on "Fed Up" in 2015 on a tour and spoke at a Reclaim Australia rally. Hanson obtained a seat in the Senate at the election, and One Nation gained 9% of the vote in Queensland. Hanson will complete six years in office under the laws governing the allocation of Senate seats following a double dissolution. Hanson has been elected to serve on the National Broadband Network's parliamentary committee.

Since being elected to the legislature, she and other One Nation senators have voted in favour of a variety of welfare reforms, and the government has generally favors the government.

Hanson was chastised for wearing a burqa, which she claims "oppresses women," into the Senate on August 17, 2017. After giving a "emotional" address to Hanson, Attorney General George Brandis received a standing ovation from Labour and Greens senators: "To ridicule that group, to push it into a corner, to mock its religious clothing is an ugly thing to do." Following the tragedy, polls showed that 57% of Australians supported Hanson's call to ban the burka in public places, with 44% "strongly" supporting a ban. Hanson's constitution was amended in August 2017 for him to serve as long as she pleases and not select her replacement, which may also continue until resignation.

Hanson declared on March 22 that One Country would support the Turnbull Government's tax cuts. She later reverting her position, blaming the government's inability to curb migrant levels and help coal-fired power.

Hanson proposed a "It's OK to be white" motion in the Australian Senate on October 15, 2018, in an attempt to acknowledge the "deplorable rise of anti-white supremacy and assaults on Western civilization." Most senators from the ruling Liberal-National Coalition endorsed it, but critics attacked it 31–28, citing it as a racial expression from the white supremacist movement. The motion was "recommitted" the following day, and senators in attendance overwhelmingly rejected it this time, with the Liberal-National Coalition's founding supporters who said they had voted for it due to an administrative error (One Nation did not attend the recommittal election).

Hanson, as well as Kevin Andrews, announced on September 18th, 2019 that they would co-chair the newly-announced parliamentary inquiry into family law. She suggested a Parliament motion opposing the upcoming Great Reset of the World Economic Forum, fearing that it would be covered for the establishment of a New World Order. Her plan was defeated by 37 votes to 2.

Hanson protested against a ban on climbing Uluru, a sacred site for local Aboriginal people in 2019. In August, Channel Nine paid for Hanson's journey to Uluru and on their A Current Affair scheme, despite the fact that the rock was climbing the mountain just short of going into place.

Hanson appeared on Channel Nine's Today show beginning in May 2019. She was suspended from the position in July 2020 after describing people in Melbourne public housing as drug users who could not speak English.

One Nation received $2.8 million in electoral fees from the Australian Electoral Commission following the 2019 federal election. Later, the Commission ordered One Nation to pay $165,442 as money that had not been used or not invested for political purposes. "Hanson has personally agreed to an enforceable contract," it says. And, in the future, the party must ensure that all invoices are in Hanson's name, the party's name, or the name of a party officer. Make sure that all invoices match payment receipts, credit card, or bank statements, and bank statements.

Following media reports that the planned national curriculum was "preoccupied with racial discrimination, and struggles of Indigenous Australians," the Australian Senate accepted a motion submitted by Hanson that asks the federal government to reject Critical race theory CRT, despite not being included in the curriculum.

The Senate opened as normal in July 2022 with the Lord's Prayer and Acknowledge of Country. "The Parliament acknowledges the Ngunnawal and Ngambri people as the traditional custodians of Canberra's meetings," the ceremony says, "and respects elders present and emerging." Despite being able to attend the service several times before, Hanson stormed out of the chamber, screaming "No I don't, and I never will."

Hanson later said that her opposition to a motion that the Aboriginal Flag and Torres Strait Islander Flag, which are both official flags of Australia, should be raised inside the Senate chamber alongside the Australian Flag.

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