Pauline Hanson suffers MAJOR blow in NSW – as the last remaining One Nation member resigns
Pauline Hanson has lost the last member of One Nation in NSW, as Tania Mihailuk resigns over claims she was kept in the dark over party funding.
The former mayor of Bankstown was the last surviving member of Ms Hanson’s party in the state.
“After careful consideration, I have made the decision to terminate my membership of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation,” Ms Mihailuk said in a statement on Friday.
“In NSW, the Electoral Commission provides administrative funding to eligible parties and elected independents.
“Members of Parliament owe a duty to their constituencies to trust that such funds are managed in a transparent manner, and in accordance with the legal requirements of the NSW Electoral Commission.
‘Despite being the NSW Leader and the only PHON MP in NSW, I feel that I cannot continue to be the public face and representative of the party in NSW if I am not fully informed of the administrative arrangements of the party within the state of NSW.”
Ms Mihailuk added that her values “haven’t changed” and that as a conservative independent MLC she would be on the right wing.
She was appointed to the NSW Legislative Council last year following the resignation of former NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham.
Ms Mihailuk was the last surviving member of Ms Hanson’s party in NSW
Pauline Hanson’s One Nation party kept Ms Mihailuk in the dark about administrative funding, she claimed
In 2022, she was fired from the NSW Labor Party after using parliamentary privilege to raise concerns about recently selected candidate Khal Asfour.
She alleged Mr Asfour had property links with disgraced NSW Labor powerbroker Eddie Obeid, a charge he denied.
Mr Asfour fired back, during a parliamentary inquiry into allegations of bad behavior in his office, by accusing Ms Mihailuk of using taxpayers’ money to buy slabs of beer, vodka, Chinese meals and chicken nuggets.
Mr Asfour sensationally withdrew from the Labor ticket for the NSW House of Lords before the March 2023 state election, and later stepped down from the mayoralty of Canterbury-Bankstown.