Fed: Labor demands details on Hanson slush fund
Federal Labor has demanded Workplace Relations Minister TONY ABBOTT release correspondencerelating to a slush fund used to bring down PAULINE HANSON's One Nation Party.
Mr ABBOTT set up Australians for Honest Politics to bankroll a legal case challengingthe validity of One Nation's registration with the electoral commission.
Labor's workplace relations spokesman CRAIG EMERSON says Mr ABBOTT should reveal thefull list of donors to the slush fund and release correspondence relating to the structureof the the fighting group.
He's told the Nine Network the correspondence must be cited now the Australian ElectoralCommission has reopened an investigation into whether the fund is linked to the LiberalParty.
HANSON and party co-founder DAVID ETTRIDGE were recently jailed for three years forelectoral fraud over the false registration of the party in Queensland.
AAP RTV sal/sco
KEYWORD: HANSON EMERSON (CANBERRA)
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