Senator Jacqui Lambie’s not in my sights, says Pauline Hanson

PAULINE  Hanson says she is trying to replace Tasmanian senators other than Jacqui Lambie, despite several of their views overlapping.

PAULINE  Hanson says she is trying to replace Tasmanian senators other than Jacqui Lambie, despite several of their views overlapping.

After a meeting in Launceston with 25 interested people, where she introduced Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Senate candidate Kate McCulloch, she said it was the other 11 senators she was gunning for.

“Who are they, what have they done?” she asked.

In the hour-long meeting, Ms Hanson echoed Senator Lambie’s views on foreign aid to Indonesia, foreign ownership of Australian land — ­including the sale of the Van Diemen’s Land Company to a Chinese buyer — and ­aspects of immigration and 457 visas, coal seam gas and fracking.

“I have heard good comments about Jacqui Lambie but she has also made the comment that she won’t work with me and she has no intention of swapping preferences because she thinks I’m too extreme to the right,” she said.

Pauline Hanson campaigning for Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party in Launceston. Picture: BRUCE MOUNSTER

“You might find that amazing, but that is what I have ­actually heard.”

Ms Hanson, who was elected as a Liberal candidate in 1996 before leaving the party, said Senator Lambie had aligned herself with Senator Nick Xenophon.

“As [South Australian Senator] Bob Day has said, Nick Xenophon actually votes with the Greens 75 per cent of the time,” Ms Hanson said.

“Jacqui Lambie should stay independent, represent Tasmania and not align with Nick Xenophon and be her own person.”

Senator Lambie said she felt sorry for Ms Hanson, a strong woman who spoke what was on her mind and was eventually put in jail.

“However, I have serious concerns about some of the people who support her,” she said.

“They are not the sort of people I would want to mix with — or be associated with.”