Senator has urgent hernia surgery

Doctors say Queensland One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts will make a full recovery after urgent surgery.

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Published 16 January 2017 4:34pm

Source: AAP

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One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts has been admitted to hospital for urgent treatment for an incarcerated hernia.

The senator was on a tour of western Queensland when he presented to the Charleville Hospital on Monday in what he described as a "high level of pain".

Doctors say he is expected to make a full recovery after surgery.

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