Editing Pauline Hanson's One Nation (section)

====2019 election and Family Court claims====
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At the [[2019 Australian federal election|May 2019 federal election]], One Nation polled 5.40% (up 1.12%) for the nationwide Senate primary vote. The party polled higher than their national vote in Queensland, taking 10.27% up 1.08%, of the primary vote in the senate.

The PHON [[Australian House of Representatives|House of Representatives]] candidate for the [[Division of O'Connor]], Dean Smith,<ref>{{cite web | title=O'Connor candidates Q&A | website=Albany Advertiser | date=10 May 2019 | url=https://www.albanyadvertiser.com.au/news/albany-advertiser/oconnor-candidates-qa-ng-b881202372z | access-date=26 March 2021 | archive-date=25 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210325221712/https://www.albanyadvertiser.com.au/news/albany-advertiser/oconnor-candidates-qa-ng-b881202372z | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | first=Jason | last=Mennell | title=Candidates declare their policies, make promises | website=Kalgoorlie Miner | date=12 May 2019 | url=https://www.kalminer.com.au/news/kalgoorlie-miner/candidates-declare-their-policies-make-promises-ng-b881193241z | access-date=26 March 2021 | archive-date=23 March 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323000448/https://www.kalminer.com.au/news/kalgoorlie-miner/candidates-declare-their-policies-make-promises-ng-b881193241z | url-status=live }}</ref> who won 8.4% (7,252) votes, was in December of the same year a target of recruitment for [[Neo-Nazi]] group [[The Base (hate group)|The Base]]. In secretly recorded tapes of his "interview" by a recruiter, Smith tells of his hatred of immigrants and his wish to "save the race". He tells the recruiter that he had become "more and more extreme and passionate about my views", and disillusioned with One Nation and the possibility of a political solution. However, he was deemed too great a risk for The Base because of his political profile, so was not admitted into their ranks.<ref name=abcaus2021>{{cite web | last1=Mann | first1=Alex | first2=Kevin | last2=Nguyen | title=The Base Tapes: Inside a neo-Nazi recruitment drive in Australia | website=ABC News | publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] | series=[[ABC News and Current Affairs#ABC Radio National|Background Briefing]] | date=25 March 2021 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-26/the-base-tapes-secret-recordings-australian-recruitment/13255994 | access-date=26 March 2021 | archive-date=30 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630223448/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-26/the-base-tapes-secret-recordings-australian-recruitment/13255994 | url-status=live }}</ref>

Also in 2019, Hanson received widespread condemnation in the Australian media after claiming that [[domestic violence]] victims routinely lie to the [[Family Court of Australia|Family Court]]. The [[Law Council of Australia]] called for the abandonment of a federal parliamentary inquiry into the family law system, citing concerns that the hearings were being used by Hanson for political purposes to undermine domestic violence claims made by women.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Law Council wants family law inquiry discontinued after One Nation live broadcast hearings |url=https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/mar/18/law-council-wants-family-law-inquiry-discontinued-after-one-nation-live-broadcast-hearings |access-date=28 July 2020 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=17 March 2020 |language=en |archive-date=8 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108181003/https://www.theguardian.com/law/2020/mar/18/law-council-wants-family-law-inquiry-discontinued-after-one-nation-live-broadcast-hearings |url-status=live }}</ref>