One Nation candidate Ross Macdonald caught sharing lewd images on Facebook
One Nation candidate caught sharing lewd photos in yet another blow to Pauline Hanson.
A One Nation candidate has been caught sharing lewd photos of himself groping topless women in another blow to Pauline Hanson’s troubled election campaign.
Pauline Hanson’s candidate in the marginal Queensland seat of Leichhardt, Ross Macdonald, has put pictures online in which he makes gross comments about women and is seen touching scantily clad ladies in Thailand bars.
Mr Macdonald’s online exploits are the latest in a string of election controversies for One Nation, which has been damaged by the Steve Dickson strip club scandal and attempts to solicit donations from the US gun lobby. The party has slipped behind Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party in the latest Newspoll.
In a series of online photos uncovered by News Corp Australia, Mr Macdonald holds raffle tickets in front of a topless young woman’s exposed breasts. Another picture shows him groping a woman in a Thailand bar.
In one photo of a large-breasted woman with her cleavage on display, Mr Macdonald has written: “WOW!! … What a heart”, as well as tagging the picture with the words “mmm YUMMY!!!”.
Another disturbing image depicts a digitally-altered picture of a naked woman with four legs meeting at a torso, each set in a suggestive sexual pose.
Mr Macdonald’s photo scandal comes after Senator Hanson broke down in a television interview yesterday over her former Queensland senate candidate Steve Dickson’s decision to quit after he was caught groping women and making racist and sexist remarks in a Washington DC strip club.
“I cop all this shi*t all the time, and I’m sick of it. Absolutely sick of it,” Senator Hanson told Channel 9 yesterday. She also said that while other politicians “sailed through” controversies, people continued to “kick her in the guts”.
“I have been let down dreadfully … I can give you a whole list of them.”
Mr Dickson and Senator Hanson’s chief of staff James Ashby were caught on tape last month trying to seek donations from the US gun lobby. In those same tapes, Senator Hanson appeared to give weight to conspiracy theories around the Port Arthur Massacre.
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