criticised the move<\/a>, calling it a \u201ccapricious and politically motivated\u201d attack on the minor party.<\/p>\nThe move left Roberts with no senior advisers, prompting one of his former staff members, Aidan Nagle, to take the matter to the Fair Work Commission in an unfair dismissal case. Nagle has since been employed in Pauline Hanson\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
After a hearing in Brisbane in February, the FWC agreed to proceed with the matter after the commonwealth argued it did not have jurisdiction. The FWC accepted Nagle\u2019s argument that the actions of the prime minister\u2019s office \u201cloaded the gun\u201d, while the \u201ctrigger\u201d was the operation of the legislation that led to his position being terminated.<\/p>\n
The unfair dismissal case is yet to be heard.<\/p>\n
The promotion of Lee Hanson also comes as the 42-year-old takes a more prominent role in the party\u2019s affairs nationally, and as Pauline Hanson positions her as the \u201cnext generation\u201d to take the party forward.<\/p>\n
According to her LinkedIn profile, Lee Hanson was appointed a member of the party\u2019s national executive in July last year.<\/p>\n
A party spokesperson said this position was unpaid.<\/p>\n
The trusted adviser<\/p>\n
Despite being an adviser to a NSW senator, Lee Hanson\u2019s Facebook profile shows that she has been promoting One Nation\u2019s presence in Tasmania and campaigning on local issues, saying the party \u201cis surging\u201d in the state.<\/p>\n
One Nation has opened four of five planned new branches in Tasmania, where polls show the party is ahead of the Liberal party on federal voting intentions.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe can\u2019t take our foot off the pedal, we have a lot of work to do before the next federal election. Let\u2019s roll up our sleeves and continue to build on the momentum,\u201d Lee Hanson said in a post in February.<\/p>\n
The appointment of a Tasmania-based adviser to a NSW senator comes after Bell was criticised for accepting his role while living in Queensland.<\/p>\n
While there is no constitutional requirement for a senator to live in the state that they are representing, Bell\u2019s selection as the party\u2019s replacement candidate prompted debate in the NSW parliament about his suitability.<\/p>\n
Bell, described as Hanson\u2019s \u201ctrusted adviser for nine years\u201d, has been appointed for a six-year term, while Barnaby Joyce was expected to be the number one Senate candidate for One Nation in NSW at the next federal election.<\/p>\n
The independent state upper house MP Mark Latham \u2013 a former member of One Nation who once led the federal Labor party \u2013 spoke against Bell\u2019s nomination in the NSW parliament, saying the appointment was \u201cbreaking a 124-year constitutional convention\u201d.<\/p>\n
Latham said Bell was as \u201cQueenslander as a Pauline Hanson fish and chip shop\u201d, and had not ever been seen in a parliamentary forum in NSW.<\/p>\n
Bell was endorsed for the role in a joint sitting of the NSW parliament, which heard there was no requirement for a senator to reside in the state they represent.<\/p>\n
One Nation said at the time that Bell was \u201ccurrently in the process of moving to NSW\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to property records, Bell still owns a house in the suburb of Tivoli in Ipswich, west of Brisbane, with his wife, Amelia Schultz.<\/p>\n
Property searches do not show any record of Bell or Shultz owning property in NSW, however, on his register of declared interests to the Senate, Bell has declared ownership of a residential property on the NSW central coast.<\/p>\n
A party spokesperson did not respond to a question about this discrepancy, but said: \u201cAll One Nation senators are residents of the state in which they represent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Nation has employed Pauline Hanson\u2019s Tasmanian-based daughter as a senior adviser to a New South Wales senator,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-506478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}