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One Nation former candidates, party insiders reveal Pauline Hanson's 'brutal dictatorship'

Pauline Hanson's 'brutal dictatorship' revealed

Source: ABC Australia

Pauline Hanson's One Nation party has been accused of intimidating and financially pressuring its own candidates and senior staffers.

Party insiders, candidates and long-term One Nation loyalists told Four Corners they had been used and discarded by Senator Hanson the losers of a bitter internal power struggle now engulfing the party.

A string of former One Nation members also said they felt intimidated by Senator Hanson's powerful chief of staff James Ashby, and that bizarre levels of control were used on candidates once they were inside the One Nation tent.

They said they were often issued directives from head office, banning them from speaking to party dissidents and the media.


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By Madhura Seneviratne

Source: ABC Australia




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