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Pauline Hanson’s lieutenant rules out a run in 2028 · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian, I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the front's afternoon headlines. National Party leader Matt Canavan is
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  Speaker 1: heading for the House of Representatives, but Pauline Hanson's lieutenant,
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  Speaker 1: James Ashby, says he won't run for Parliament at all.
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  Speaker 1: If you want to be PM, you need to be
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  Speaker 1: in the House of Representatives. And as everything changes in
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  Speaker 1: federal politics, the jockeying is already on for the election
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  Speaker 1: due in 2028. There'd been widespread speculation Ashby, who is
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  Speaker 1: National Director of One Nation and has been orchestrating Pauline
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  Speaker 1: Hanson's success for decades, would run for politics under his
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  Speaker 1: own name. Now he's saying it's not on. That is
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  Speaker 1: to say, he sent the Australian a thumbs up emoji
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  Speaker 1: when we asked directly if he would run for any
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  Speaker 1: lower or upper house seat. Australia will be forced to
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  Speaker 1: keep a convicted Afghan drug courier and fraudster despite the
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  Speaker 1: government trying to kick him out. The 27-year-old refugee, who
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  Speaker 1: can be identified only by the pseudonym ZKDP, has been
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  Speaker 1: found by a tribunal to present a, quote, moderate risk
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  Speaker 1: of re-offending. The man came to Australia in 2013, aged 14,
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  Speaker 1: on a special humanitarian visa. He claims he was raped
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  Speaker 1: as a teenager in Australia and began using illegal drugs.
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  Speaker 1: In his early 20s, he was sentenced to seven and
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  Speaker 1: a half years in jail for supplying drugs, including ecstasy,
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  Speaker 1: ice and cocaine, and his visa was cancelled. He also
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  Speaker 1: was convicted of obtaining financial advantage by deception after scamming
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  Speaker 1: an elderly lady out of almost $ 2, 000. Now, the tribunal
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  Speaker 1: says his long-standing ties to Australia mean he should be
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  Speaker 1: allowed to stay here. Check out those stories live right
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  Speaker 1: now at theaustralian.com.au and come back to the front first
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning.