{"id":854135,"date":"2026-08-13T19:56:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854135\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:56:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:56:12","slug":"one-nation-staffer-accused-of-posing-as-leftwing-content-creator-in-undercover-videos-one-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/854135\/","title":{"rendered":"One Nation staffer accused of posing as leftwing content creator in \u2018undercover\u2019 videos | One Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The owners of a progressive social media page have accused One Nation of impersonating them at anti-Pauline Hanson rallies while shooting a series of \u201cundercover\u201d videos.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Hanson\u2019s party has recently published a string of videos with a young male host attending leftwing protests. In the clips \u2013 published on pages owned by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/one-nation\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">One Nation<\/a> and Hanson on Instagram, TikTok and X \u2013 a party staffer seeks to embarrass protesters in filmed interviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He asks people questions that appear designed to catch them out, such as: \u201cWe\u2019re going to fight [racism] by uniting under One Nation, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In one video, he says: \u201cI\u2019m going undercover to protest against my boss, Pauline Hanson.\u201d In another, Hanson herself appears, joking with the host as she asks: \u201cWho have you been hanging around with?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The founders of Toilet Paper Australia, a political meme and commentary page with 128,000 Instagram followers, told Guardian Australia they have received reports from followers that a One Nation representative has been attending rallies in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/brisbane\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brisbane<\/a> and other cities, alleging to be \u201cfrom Toilet Paper Australia\u201d when seeking interviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Toilet Paper Australia regularly criticises One Nation and promotes critical news stories about the rightwing populist party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cWe want to make abundantly clear: this person is not from Toilet Paper Australia. They are not affiliated with us, and they do not represent us in any capacity,\u201d a spokesperson for the page said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>A post on X by One Nation features protester Che Janz at a rally in Brisbane. Photograph: One Nation\/X<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Guardian Australia has spoken to three attendees of a Brisbane rally against Hanson in June \u2013 organised by the organisation Campaign Against Racism and Fascism \u2013 who alleged they were approached by the host in the One Nation videos and that he claimed to be from Toilet Paper Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">In the videos, the host films protesters chanting slogans or making speeches that strongly criticise Hanson, as well as interviewing people wearing Greens merchandise, with communist or socialist T-shirts and flags, or holding colourful signs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">One participant is asked: \u201cDid you come here stoned?\u201d To which they say yes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The host asks a man wearing a pirate outfit: \u201cWhen was the last time you showered?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cI hope I\u2019m not going to become trans tomorrow,\u201d the host says in another while speaking to a participant. He yells along with the chant: \u201cHanson is not welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">The Brisbane rally attendees said they had no suspicions that the host was from One Nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Che Janz, who was featured in one video, claimed the host approached him and friends at the event.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ignore=\"global-link-styling\" href=\"#EmailSignup-skip-link-16\" class=\"dcr-76akua\">skip past newsletter promotion<\/a>Free newsletter | When needed<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-vf9hps\">Sign up to Breaking News Australia<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1r7my33\">Get the most important news as it breaks<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2998.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"dcr-xiq31o\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"EmailSignup-skip-link-16\" tabindex=\"0\" aria-label=\"after newsletter promotion\" role=\"note\" class=\"dcr-76akua\">after newsletter promotion<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cI think he saw us from afar and then wandered over. He said \u2018how are you going, I\u2019m from Toilet Paper Australia and I\u2019m doing some interviews here\u2019,\u201d Janz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">He said he \u201cdidn\u2019t suspect anything\u201d, noting there were often people filming at such rallies for social media, but said he was aware of political opponents filming \u201cundercover\u201d content at social rallies in Australia and overseas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cIt wasn\u2019t out of the ordinary \u2026 but I always know there\u2019s a risk involved going to something like that, know that could happen,\u201d Janz said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Two other attendees, who requested to not be named and were ultimately not featured in videos published by One Nation, claimed the host asked them \u201cleading questions\u201d at the rally, giving them an opportunity to criticise Hanson\u2019s party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">\u201cIt was just the one guy with a phone and lapel microphone, nothing seemed suss at all,\u201d one said. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t rude, he looked perfectly normal, just a guy doing some media.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Toilet Paper Australia\u2019s Instagram page describes the group as \u201cProudly Union. Proudly Biased\u201d, adding: \u201cFighting Murdoch, the Liberals and One Nation.\u201d It regularly features criticism and news stories about conservative politicians, and has in recent weeks strongly focused on One Nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">Toilet Paper Australia last week posted links to One Nation\u2019s volunteer sign-up website, writing: \u201cI\u2019m sure you\u2019d all love to *definitely* show up and *definitely* not miss out and no-show.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1s160rg\">One Nation did not respond to request for comment. Guardian Australia contacted the host on several social media platforms but did not receive a reply.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The owners of a progressive social media page have accused One Nation of impersonating them at anti-Pauline Hanson&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":854136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-854135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854135","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=854135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/854136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}