One Nation - 60 Minutes

[Black Orchid]

A whistleblower has claimed that One Nation has repeatedly ignored some of the past accusations and convictions of potential candidates as he blows the lid on the party’s internal dysfunction.

One Nation’s former candidate vetter turned campaign manager Charles Swindon was sacked this year and has spoken out for the first time about what he found to 60 Minutes, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Swindon defected as a senior staffer for the Coalition in February to support a party that would have a stronger stance on immigration, despite claiming the rest of its platform was “stupid”.

But he says he found One Nation “weirdly incompetent” and “chaotic”.

“It’s a really shady place,” he said.
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Swindon also raised issues about former One Nation candidate turned Victorian secretary Bianca Colecchia, whose partner had owned the Melbourne strip club Dreams where 29-year-old dancer Stacey Tierney had died from a drug overdose in late 2016.

Her partner had been fined for serious oversight failures and, while Colecchia was not connected to the death, she spent eight years managing the club and was mentioned in legal documents as the partner of the club owner.

In that time, a chief promoter was found to be a brothel boss who police have previously alleged in court is a money launderer for the Comanchero bikie gang.

Swindon said he compiled a document outlining his findings but was told it was “no big deal”.
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Sean Black also fell under Swindon’s concern.

Black served One Nation for eight years, including as campaign manager, until he was dumped in April when the party received political pressure for rehiring him after he was jailed for rape and assault.

Swindon said Black had claimed he had One Nation’s support to keep working for the party via his family company by fundraising using data the party holds on its members and donors.

It was alleged that “they would go out and collect donations and they would get a 10 per cent cut of that donation and every subsequent donation made by that individual in perpetuity, even if they never solicited it”.

Swindon said if that had happened in any other party, the person would be “done forever”.
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Five months into his job, Swindon alleged he was fired because he raised concerns internally about Black and Colecchia.

He also claimed he was warned that if he ever spoke out publicly, One Nation would release a dirt file on him.

Now he is taking legal action against the party.

https://www.nine.com.au/australia-news/ ... 61cfb.html

There are some great people in ON but there are also some very sketchy ones.

ON needs to get rid of Pauline if they want to be viable.

[Bobby]

Hi BO,
I think Pauline doesn't want to lead One Nation or be the PM -

she wants to be their spiritual leader only to give advice.

[tllwd]

It looks like ON is becoming like all others in Australian politics.

[Bobby]

It looks like ON is becoming like all others in Australian politics.

One Nation is a symptom that the 2 party or Uniparty system is not working -
it's not what people want.

[Black Orchid]

Hi BO,
I think Pauline doesn't want to lead One Nation or be the PM -

she wants to be their spiritual leader only to give advice.

Why do you think that?

Personally I very much disagree. Pauline loves power. Why do you think she only wants to give advice? If that were true she'd stand aside and hand over the reins to someone else.

She wants to control.

[Bobby]

Hi BO,
I think Pauline doesn't want to lead One Nation or be the PM -

she wants to be their spiritual leader only to give advice.

Why do you think that?

Personally I very much disagree. Pauline loves power. Why do you think she only wants to give advice? If that were true she'd stand aside and hand over the reins to someone else.

She wants to control.

She was asked if she wanted to be the next PM and I think she said no -

she is getting a bit old for such a tough job.