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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Martin

Pauline Hanson’s daughter employed in taxpayer-funded job with NSW One Nation senator

Lee Hanson with her mother Pauline Hanson
Pauline Hanson’s daughter Lee Hanson, who is based in Tasmania, was appointed senior adviser to One Nation’s NSW senator Sean Bell. Photograph: Lee Hanson/Pauline Hanson's One Nation/Facebook

One Nation has employed Pauline Hanson’s Tasmania-based daughter as a senior adviser to a New South Wales senator, in a taxpayer-funded role worth as much as $180,000 a year.

Guardian Australia can reveal that Lee Hanson, who lives just outside Hobart, was appointed as the senior adviser to Senator Sean Bell in October last year.

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