Plane talk off limits for Hanson

AN INCREASINGLY desperate Pauline Hanson referenced the slaying of a Queensland policeman less than 24 hours after his fatal shooting as the One Nation leader attempted to deflect allegations of infighting and dodgy donations.

The furious Queensland senator ( pictured) yesterday refused to answer reporters’ questions about secret recordings that could create problems for her and other former senior One Nation officials.

Senator Hanson even referred to slain Queensland cop B Brett Forte and the cold weather as she would not be drawn on increasingly serious claims over the origins of a light plane she used.

“I can’t believe that you w would ask me some stupid question like that when I have had a gentleman shot dead in his electorate,” she said in Canberra yesterday.

“We have people homeless in the cold weather and you’re worried about that from some disgruntled people.”

The Australian Electoral Commission is investigating whether the Jabiru aircraft was donated by Victorian developer Bill McNee. Ms Hanson and her chief of staff James Ashby insist Mr Ashby owns the plane.

But in a taped conversation from November 20 last year Ms Hanson indicates to former party treasurer Ian Nelson the aircraft was donated by Mr McNee.

“Who knows Bill’s name. No one. We always kept it very, very quiet,” Ms Hanson tells Mr Nelson in a secret recording handed to the AEC.

In it she also appears to blame former party secretary Saraya Beric for leaks to media about the plane.