Mark Latham has accused Pauline Hanson of removing him as NSW One Nation leader without consultation, saying her 'takeover' has turned the state party upside down.
The decision won't affect Latham's position in the NSW parliament.
Mark Latham has accused Pauline Hanson of staging a Queensland takeover of One Nation's NSW branch after she dumped him from the state party leadership for poor election results. The fresh leadership, which includes Hanson, would examine the structure and campaign abilities of the state party, a spokesman for the senator told the Australian Associated Press news agency on Monday."Nobody has been sacked from the party as such," the spokesman said.Mark Latham was the face of his party's state election campaign in March after resigning from the seat he won in 2019 in an attempt to win the party another two positions.
"In Queensland, Hanson's Senate vote fell by three per cent and she only just scraped in for re-election," Latham said.The move to oust Latham is an escalation of tensions between the former Labor leader and Senator Hanson after hisThe new executive of the NSW branch would conduct a comprehensive review focused on the relationship between the organisation and parliamentary wings of the party, Senator Hanson's spokesman said.
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