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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Martin

One Nation senator for NSW still lived in Queensland four months after his appointment, expense reports show

One Nation senator Sean Bell speaks at an anti-immigration rally in Sydney in December
One Nation senator Sean Bell speaks at an anti-immigration rally in Sydney in December. Photograph: Audrey Richardson/Getty Images

One Nation’s newest senator for New South Wales, Sean Bell, continued to live and work in Queensland in his first four months in the role – while also billing taxpayers more than $6,000 for chauffeured cars in Brisbane.

After Bell was selected to take the casual vacancy left by One Nation’s elected senator Warwick Stacey in September, the party said that the former adviser to Pauline Hanson was “currently in the process of moving to NSW”.

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