Queensland has re-elected One Nation leader Pauline Hanson to the Senate but the 68-year-old outspoken right-wing firebrand, only just scraped in after almost four weeks of counting. | CameronAtfield
But the 68-year-old outspoken right-wing firebrand, who has been elected to a second consecutive six-year term, only just scraped in after almost four weeks of counting.
“I thank Queenslanders for entrusting me to continue to represent them in Canberra and I thank all those Australians who supported our party and lifted our national vote,” Hanson said. The Greens’ Gladstone-based candidate, Penny Allman-Payne, will become the party’s second Queensland senator, joining Larissa Waters on the upper house crossbench.
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