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Pauline Hanson told a crowd in Brisbane today that the Liberal Party threw her in jail.
There's a rather important problem with that claim.
In 2003, Hanson was convicted of electoral fraud and sentenced to prison. After approximately 11 weeks, her convictions were overturned on appeal.
That really happened. Nobody should pretend otherwise.
But here's what Hanson left out.
In 2004, Queensland's Crime and Misconduct Commission investigated allegations that political interference had influenced her prosecution.
It found no evidence of political pressure, improper influence or misconduct.
The investigation even examined Tony Abbott's involvement in earlier legal proceedings against One Nation. It found that his involvement had not denied Hanson due process.
Hanson has every reason to remember those 11 weeks in prison. Having convictions overturned after spending time behind bars is an incredibly serious experience.
But accusing a political party of putting you in jail is a separate claim, and one that requires evidence.
The official investigation found none.
There is a difference between telling people what happened to you and telling them who you believe was responsible.
That difference matters, especially when you're making the accusation in front of thousands of political supporters. #Auspol2026
Funny how a man who supposedly "can't control his anger" can stay polite with his boss, patient with clients, and calm around his friends, then suddenly explode at his girlfriend?
That isn't losing control. It's choosing a target, which is why abuse is a choice.
There's a Change petition to remove Jillian Segal as Australia’s Antisemitism Envoy. Please consider reading and signing it.
Zionism is NOT Judaism.
Opposing Zionism is NOT antisemitism.
Criticising Israel is NOT antisemitism. #auspol#FreePalestine
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The United States plunges deeper into the abyss: live-streaming a firing squad, an oil deal with Putin, sanctions on the ICC…and now Trump whining - yet again - that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize. It is a sick, sick society, an object of international derision and contempt laughed at by its enemies, distrusted by its former friends.
Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts….accepted a $50,000 donation from a labour hire firm….ganged up with Scott Morrison and mining workers lost an estimated $40 billion of wage theft after years of wrong classification.
WHO is backed by Gina Reinhardt?
PAULINE HANSON…..
She’s coming to screw over workers for her billionaire friends.
I wonder if Tony Abbott will declare this catastrophe has nothing to do with climate change because "Bangkok always has floods". #ClimateCrisis#Bangkok
This is what a One Nation government would do to Australia.
Republicans cut $1 trillion from Medicaid.
They handed billionaires a $3.7 trillion tax break.
They call it a budget.
Its THEFT.
11.8+ million Americans lose healthcare.
The top 1% gets richer.
That is why Reinhardt and Murdoch support Hanson.
One Nation is the Republican Party Australian version…..