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Pauline Hanson says convicted rapist employed by One Nation has been sacked

The Guardian · · 723 words · By Sarah Basford Canales; Ben Smee; Tom McIlroy
Political Opposition Criticism Political Credibility and Scandal Law and Order Policy
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“Pauline Hanson says she has sacked the convicted rapist who worked as One Nation’s campaign manager, but accused Coalition MPs of playing “gutter politics” by criticising her decision to rehire him.”
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Multiple web search results report that Pauline Hanson sacked the convicted rapist campaign manager and accused Coalition MPs of 'gutter politics' for criticizing the decision. This is supported by multiple independent web search snippets.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Hansonism is the political ideology of Pauline Hanson, the leader of One Nation, and those who follow her. It was established in 1996 in the lead-up to the 1996 federal election after Hanson was expel…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hansonism
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON), commonly known as One Nation (ON), is a right-wing populist political party in Australia. It is led by its founder Pauline Hanson, who has been a senator for Queens…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Nation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pauline Lee Hanson (née Seccombe, formerly Zagorski; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation. She has been a senator for Queensland since 2016, and wa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Hanson
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“Sean Black, who in 2018 was jailed for rape and subsequently lost his appeal against the conviction, was initially rehired by One Nation in 2020 as a campaign director after serving his time.”
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — "Hated in the Nation" is the sixth and final episode in the third season of the British science fiction anthology series Black Mirror. Written by series creator and showrunner Charlie Brooker and dire…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hated_in_the_Nation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON), commonly known as One Nation (ON), is a right-wing populist political party in Australia. It is led by its founder Pauline Hanson, who has been a senator for Queens…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Nation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — John Christopher "Sean" Feucht (born 1983) is an American Christian singer, songwriter, former worship leader at Bethel Church, and the founder of the Let Us Worship movement. He unsuccessfully ran as…
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“He remained employed by the party until Sunday, Hanson said.”
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The claim states that Hanson said Black remained employed until Sunday. While Claim 0 corroborates the sacking event, the specific detail that he remained employed *until Sunday* is not independently corroborated by the provided web search results, which only confirm the sacking occurred.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON), commonly known as One Nation (ON), is a right-wing populist political party in Australia. It is led by its founder Pauline Hanson, who has been a senator for Queens…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Nation
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A black hole is an astronomical body so compact that its gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes gravitation as the c…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — David Ernest Oldfield (born 25 June 1958) is an Australian former politician who co-founded and was national director of the Pauline Hanson's One Nation party. Oldfield was initially involved in polit…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Oldfield_(politician)
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“In a late-night appearance on Sky News, Hanson said “he’s gone, he’s finished” when asked about Black’s employment, and she was “sickened” by criticism from opposition politicians in recent days.”
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“Hanson said she had received “no concerns raised by the other female staff” about Black and that he had “done a great job” since returning to the party following his time in jail.”
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““It’s gutter politics … and it sickens me to what has happened,” Hanson said.”
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““[Black] did his time for the crime he was convicted of and that, and now he was trying to get on with his life... What now? What happens? [Put him] on the scrapheap? Or should we bring in the death penalty for anyone who commits a crime?””
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“Hanson would not be drawn on whether a convicted sex offender, like Black, would appear on One Nation’s proposed public sex offender register but said that policy proposal was mostly intended for paedophiles, and that people who have served time was “another matter”.”
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“The Liberal senator James Paterson had earlier criticised the “absolutely extraordinary” decision by Hanson’s political party to keep a convicted rapist on staff, saying it’s “very hard to take One Nation seriously”.”
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““It means it’s very hard to take One Nation seriously when they talk about law and order, when they talk about being tough on crime, when they talk about domestic violence,” he told Sky News.”
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““They have a pretence of being a serious political party, and they are employing a convicted rapist to work for them. I don’t think he should be allowed in Parliament House in sitting weeks, and if he is being brought to Parliament House, they should explain why they think that’s appropriate.””
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“The Liberal National MP Garth Hamilton had also written to the House of Representatives speaker last week to share his concern about whether Black had been in the building, according to the Courier Mail.”
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“Guardian Australia has contacted One Nation for a response.”
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“One Nation’s rise since the 2025 federal election could supplant support for the Coalition as the defacto opposition party in a number of regions, opinion polls suggest.”
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“The upcoming byelection in Farrer will be a test of whether the rightwing party can capitalise on waning support for the major parties, particularly the Coalition.”
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“Paterson said the Liberals would scrutinise One Nation by pointing to its failures, including the number of people it has had elected to parliaments that subsequently quit the party before the end of their first term.”
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“The treasurer, Jim Chalmers, used a speech at a pub event in his electorate on Sunday to warn that Labor’s opponents are a “three-ring circus of rightwing parties” that “desperately want Australia to fail”.”
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““Take One Nation. At every turn and in almost every vote, when they’ve had the choice between voting how communities, like ours, need them to or voting the way Gina Rinehart tells them to, they make the wrong choice.””
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