Pauline Hanson says domestic violence prevents police from dealing with ‘real crime’ in unearthed interview

In a podcast aired last year, the One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, said domestic violence prevented police from focusing on ‘real crime’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

Pauline Hanson has described paid leave for those experiencing family and domestic violence as “ridiculous”, and suggested the issue is taking police away from “real crime”, calling for the family law system to be “wound back”.

In an unearthed interview, the One Nation leader said the advancements of women’s rights in the family law system over the decades had become “broken” because they favoured women and were now “suppressing the males all the time”.