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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Sarah Martin Senior correspondent

Pauline Hanson’s daughter Lee working for a NSW One Nation senator remotely from Tasmania without ministerial approval

Lee Hanson holds an Australian flag while speaking into a megaphone
Pauline Hanson’s daughter Lee addresses a March for Australia rally in Hobart. She is earning up to $180,000 a year as a senior adviser to NSW One Nation senator Sean Bell. Illustration: Josh Agnew/Guardian design

Pauline Hanson’s daughter, Lee Hanson, has been working in Tasmania as a senior adviser to a New South Wales One Nation senator without the required ministerial approval, Guardian Australia can reveal.

Under work base arrangements that apply to the staff of all MPs, a personal adviser such as Hanson can only be allowed to work in a location other than Canberra or the parliamentarian’s home base with approval from the special minister of state.

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