Editing Pauline Hanson's One Nation (section)

==== Internal disputes and claims of corruption ====
The party was affected by internal divisions and has split several times.  Lawsuits involving ex-members did eventually force Hanson to repay approximately $500,000 of public funding won at the 1998 Queensland election amid claims by Abbott that the party was fraudulently registered. Abbott established a trust fund called "Australians for Honest Politics Trust" to help bankroll civil court cases against the party.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/02/1062403506222.html |title=AEC defends handling of Abbott slush fund – National |newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald |date=2 September 2003 |access-date=8 January 2017 |archive-date=22 February 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222063812/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/02/1062403506222.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The suits alleged that the party was undemocratically constituted in order to concentrate all power in the hands of three people—Hanson, Ettridge and Oldfield (in particular Oldfield)—and that it technically had only two members: Ettridge and Hanson. Even though Hanson's fraud charges were dropped, the Electoral Commission of Queensland never reimbursed Hanson for the monies that they collected from the claim.<ref name=ABCONtimeline/>

The first Annual General Meeting of the One Nation party was held in April 1999, which critic Paul Reynolds said demonstrated that One Nation lacked organisation.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rutherford|first1=Jennifer|title=One Love Too Many: The Undoing of Pauline Hanson|journal=[[Australian Journal of Politics and History]]|date=June 2001|volume=47|issue=2|pages=192–208|doi=10.1111/1467-8497.00227}}</ref>

At the [[1999 New South Wales state election]], [[David Oldfield (politician)|David Oldfield]] was elected to the [[New South Wales Legislative Council]]. In October 2000, Hanson expelled Oldfield from the party after a disagreement.<ref name=ABCONtimeline/> His expulsion created even more instability in a party which was constantly embroiled in scandal and internal strife. Oldfield attacked Hanson publicly, saying that "everything including her maiden speech and every word of any consequence that she's said since, has actually been written for her".<ref name=ABCONtimeline/> Oldfield engineered a split within the party, creating [[One Nation NSW]], in 2001.<ref name=ABCONtimeline/> The new party took advantage of electoral party registration laws to register itself as a political party under the 'One Nation' name with the NSW electoral commission, and achieved registration in April 2002.<ref name=ABCONtimeline/>

At the [[2001 Western Australian state election]] One Nation won three seats in the state, however the party was reduced to 3 seats the same year at the [[2001 Queensland state election]]. During the [[2001 Australian federal election]], the party's vote fell from 9% to 5.5%. Hanson failed in her bid to win a Senate seat from Queensland, despite polling a strong 10% of the primary vote. Hanson also failed to win a seat in the [[New South Wales Legislative Council]].<ref name=ABCONtimeline/>