Pauline Hanson

Vocation

Australian politician and former leader of One Nation, a right-wing political party with a populist, conservative and anti-multiculturalism platform, founded by her in 1997. She was elected as the Member of the Australian Parliament for Oxley, serving 2 March 1996 – 3 October 1998. On 20 August 2003, a jury in the District Court of Queensland convicted Hanson and her advisor David Ettridge of electoral fraud, and both of them were sentenced to three years imprisonment. This prompted politican Bronwyn Bishop to remark that Hanson was a political prisoner, comparing her conviction with Robert Mugabe's treatment of Zimbabwean opponents. On 6 November 2003 (delivering judgment the day after hearing the appeal), the Queensland Court of Appeal quashed all of Hanson and Ettridge's convictions and they were immediately released from jail. In 2006, she was named by The Bulletin as one of the 100 most influential Australians of all time. In March 2007, Hanson published her autobiography Untamed and Unashamed. In 2013, Hanson rejoined the One Nation party and, in 2014, became its leader for the second time. At the July 2016 Australian federal election she was elected to the Senate, representing Queensland. Hanson has been divorced twice, and has four children. Link to Wikipedia biography