Pauline Hanson responds to Guardian journalist’s press club question with personal attack

Taxpayers are paying more than $150 ,000 a year for your daughter, Lee Hansen, to seemingly campaign full -time in Tasmania while employed as a political advisor for a New South Wales senator.Did you have any role in appointing her to that position?

Honestly, you never give up.I've never seen a person that's such a trashy journalist, you know, and what you put out all the time, you've got this obsession with constantly trying to pull down myself, my party, or Mrs Reinhart, whatever you do.You will be banned from my answering.I'll answer you this question today, but I'm telling you now, don't come near me for an interview in the future because 25 of your articles, it's always 28 articles, is constantly bashing One Nation.You don't research properly, you don't know your information, and you will put out lies about me.Well, I've had enough of that.

But I'll tell you that, no, she didn't, I didn't.get her that job.She got the job on her own merits, by someone who actually wanted to employ her, her abilities, her skills in HR, her abilities in working for the TAS University for eight years, and was head of a department down there.So my daughter is very capable of doing it, and I feel very concerned that she might end up in the Senate with me if I'm forced enough to get elected by the people of Queensland, you're going to have a lot to write about then, aren't you?

So you had no role, to clarify, you had no role in appointing her to that position, none whatsoever?I've given you my answer.

Thank you.