Martin revealed in February that Lee Hanson has been spearheading the party\u2019s expansion in Tasmania, while receiving a taxpayer-funded salary of about $150,000 a year<\/a> for her work for a NSW One Nation senator.<\/p>\n Hanson said Martin would be banned from future events because of critical coverage, accusing her of harbouring an \u201cobsession\u201d with Hanson herself and billionaire patron Gina Rinehart. She had previously said she would ban the ABC and the Guardian from attending her events.<\/p>\n Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email<\/a><\/p>\n The Media Arts and Entertainment Alliance called the attack \u201cbitter, personal and unprofessional\u201d and warned attempts by One Nation<\/a> to ban Guardian Australia and the ABC from press conferences constituted an assault on the freedom of the press.<\/p>\n \u201cHanson\u2019s actions stand in stark contrast with her remarks that she welcomes the scrutiny of the media on her party, its people and its politics,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n \u201c[Martin] is an experienced and professional journalist who was attending her place of work to do her job of holding the powerful to account. Journalists must be provided with safe workplaces, free from abuse, so we can uphold the public\u2019s right to know.\u201d<\/p>\n The union called for journalists to stand with colleagues seeking to report in the public interest, when they are attacked or targeted by politicians.<\/p>\n The prime minister said parties seeking to exclude media organisations or cut public broadcasting were misguided.<\/p>\n \u201cI would hope that all media organisations come out and oppose that, because they should, because they\u2019re vital roles in our democracy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n The federal parliamentary press gallery committee president, Jane Norman, issued a statement on behalf of journalists working in Parliament House.<\/p>\n \u201cThe ability to scrutinise and question politicians is one of the fundamental functions of our work as journalists,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n \u201cAgainst this backdrop, the gallery strongly objects to threats made by One Nation \u2013 or by any political party \u2013 to ban certain journalists and organisations from doing their jobs as important observers and interpreters of federal politics.<\/p>\n \u201cJournalists have an essential role to play in a free and open democracy, and such restrictions will weaken the country\u2019s political system.\u201d<\/p>\n Hanson used the speech to call for SBS to be shut down and for the ABC to transition to a subscription model <\/a>for metropolitan Australia and only some regional services to receive taxpayer funding.<\/p>\n![\"Pauline](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1781779272_332_5023.jpg\")
Pauline Hanson responds to Guardian journalist\u2019s press club question with personal attack \u2013 video<\/p>\n