Pauline Hanson granted temporary injunction over secret recordings
PAULINE Hanson has succeeded in her bid to gag former One Nation treasurer Ian Nelson from releasing more secret recordings.
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PAULINE Hanson has succeeded in her bid to temporarily gag former One Nation treasurer Ian Nelson from releasing more secret recordings.
Earlier today, One Nation sought an injunction to permanently stop former party treasurer Ian Nelson and the ABC from publishing or broadcasting secret recordings from party meetings.
Lawyers for Ms Hanson today lodged the injunction in the NSW Supreme Court to stop the national broadcaster from releasing more material and requested Mr Nelson and the ABC pay the politician damages for releasing “confidential information”.
Ms Hanson reportedly requested “ … all recordings in the possession, custody or control” of either Ian Nelson and the ABC be delivered to her.
Justice Francois Kunc on Thursday ordered Mr Nelson be restrained from “broadcasting, publishing, distributing, copying, using or dealing in any way” with telephone recordings which concern One Nation until the day it returns to court on June 13.
The orders sought against the ABC by One Nation do not currently apply.
It comes after a secret phone recording of tense discussions between One Nation leader Pauline Hanson and the party’s former senator Rod Culleton was aired on the ABC’s Four Corners in April this year.
The network revealed it obtained a series of emails which indicated Ms Hanson was aware of Mr Culleton’s legal woes when she selected him to join the party despite later publicly criticising him over it and urging him to stand down.
Mr Culleton secretly recorded a phone conversation with Ms Hanson after his private legal affairs played out across the media and she allegedly withdrew her support of him.
Mr Culleton can be heard telling Ms Hanson: “You’re getting angry with me, Pauline”.
Ms Hanson said: “You’ve been in politics for, what, six months? I’ve been doing it for 20 years. Don’t tell me how to run politics and how the system works. I think I know a little bit more than what you do.”
Ms Hanson continued the heated exchange: “Go and read your constitution section 44.2 and it states that if you have a criminal conviction, more than 12 months sentence. I haven’t done that, Rod. You did it before you were actually standing. Now they’ve caught up with you over this. That is the facts. Right? Now don’t try and blame me.”
Mr Culleton replied: “I’m not blaming you. But I don’t seem to be getting support from you in a sense now you’re wanting me to stand down.”
Ms Hanson advised him to “think about it” and get some legal advice.
“I’ll leave it up to you. I’ll see you at parliament next week,” she said.
Originally published as Pauline Hanson granted temporary injunction over secret recordings
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