How Bill McNee’s One Nation donation came under AEC scrutiny

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Share A A A A certain sense of deja vu accompanied this year’s news that a wealthy benefactor had given One Nation a plane.

Pauline Hanson was keen to show off her “sexy” new Cirrus SR22, a present from mining billionaire Gina Rinehart worth an estimated $1.5 million. But a decade earlier, the party leader was flying high in a different light aircraft from another admirer – a plane that has now dropped off the radar.

Hanson beside Bill McNee’s $100,000 gift. One Nation, whose financial affairs are under growing scrutiny as the party overtakes the opposition and the government in multiple polls, is refusing to say where the plane has gone and if it has been sold.