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Pauline Hanson charged taxpayers almost $9,000 for private plane to event honouring Gina Rinehart donation
PoliticsThe Guardian2h ago

Pauline Hanson charged taxpayers almost $9,000 for private plane to event honouring Gina Rinehart donation

Details of flight come as One Nation leader faces scrutiny over her use of taxpayer-funded entitlements Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Pauline Hanson charged taxpayers almost $9,000 for a chartered plane to attend an event honouring the mining billionaire Gina Rinehart’s donation to a private agricultural college, parliamentary expenses data shows. The One Nation leader flew from Tamworth to Avalon in Octob...

One Nation Party Rises in Australian Polls
PoliticsNYT6d ago

One Nation Party Rises in Australian Polls

Australia's anti-immigration One Nation party, led by Pauline Hanson, has seen a rise in polls following a massacre in Bondi, with the foreign roots of the accused perpetrators making the party more appealing to some.

Federal police ‘received reports of a crime’ in relation to Pauline Hanson’s comments about Muslims
PoliticsThe Guardian13d ago

Federal police ‘received reports of a crime’ in relation to Pauline Hanson’s comments about Muslims

Bilal El-Hayek, mayor of Canterbury Bankstown, says One Nation’s leader’s comments ‘will incite someone’ Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Federal police say they have “received reports of a crime” in relation to comments made to the media by Pauline Hanson this week. But an AFP spokesperson did not say whether they had begun a criminal investigation, only that they would have more to say “at an appropriate time”. Continue reading...

Guardian Essential poll: more than half of Australians open to voting for One Nation despite Hanson’s Muslim comments
PoliticsThe Guardian8d ago

Guardian Essential poll: more than half of Australians open to voting for One Nation despite Hanson’s Muslim comments

A quarter of all respondents say they would ‘definitely’ back the rightwing populist party at the next election while a third say they’re ‘open’ to it Pauline Hanson’s populism is a front. But there are lessons for progressives in One Nation’s surging popularity | Peter Lewis Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Nearly 60% of Australians say they’d be open to voting for One Nation at the next federal election, with nearly half of those currently backing Labor saying ...

Pauline Hanson expected to face censure motion in Senate over ‘inflammatory’ comments about Australian Muslims
PoliticsThe Guardian3d ago

Pauline Hanson expected to face censure motion in Senate over ‘inflammatory’ comments about Australian Muslims

Labor’s move expected to be supported by the Greens, making it Hanson’s second censure within four months Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Pauline Hanson is expected to face a censure motion in the Senate on Monday, with Labor seeking to call out the One Nation leader’s “inflammatory and divisive” recent comments about Australian Muslims. The Greens will support Labor’s move, with the motion expected to pass,...