CONTENT WARNING: This article discusses rape.
Pauline Hanson and her political party One Nation have hired a convicted rapist to help run its campaign for the upcoming federal election — for the second time. Yes, you read that correctly.
According to the ABC and The Guardian, former One Nation advisor Sean Black — who previously worked as the media advisor for Senator Malcolm Roberts — has been rehired by the party for the second time despite being found guilty of two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm and one count of rape in 2018.
In July 2018, Black was sentenced to five years in jail after being convicted of raping a woman in a bathroom in 2007, pushing her down a set of stairs and crushing her hand in a door.
During the trial, Judge Glen Cash stated that Black showed no remorse for his actions.
Although he attempted to appeal the conviction in February 2019, Black’s appeal was unsuccessful.
Black was released from jail in 2020 and swiftly went back to work for One Nation in Brisbane. However, after reported internal complaints, he was sacked.
“Sean Black no longer works for One Nation,” a spokesman said in February 2021, per the ABC.
However, according to an insider source speaking to the ABC, he was working for One Nation again in 2023 as a “campaign assistant/campaign operations”.
“He’s a bigtime adviser for the campaign,” the anonymous insider said.
“He’s in charge of giving advice on how to campaign, what type of events to attend, using social media, and he’s in charge of vetting candidates. His judgement of character is very important to the party and he runs the candidate training.”
According to a One Nation spokesperson, Pauline Hanson “was aware of the circumstances around Mr Black’s conviction”.
“One Nation is entirely focused on taking sensible policies and quality candidates to the 2025 federal election, rather than staffing arrangements in the national office,” they said.
Black’s appointment in the One Nation team for the second time has been condemned by The Queensland Sexual Assault Network.
“Rape is a serious sexual offence that has major and lifelong impacts on victim/survivors across all their life domains, including on their physical and mental health, education, employment, family and relationships,” executive officer Angela Lynch said, per the ABC.
“In 2025, a convicted rapist with a history of serious assault and domestic and family violence is not a fit and proper person to hold a leadership position in Australia.”
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