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paraclete |
12/09/06 |
Please explain, US tells Pauline
By Edmund Burke
December 10, 2006 12:00am
Article from: The Sunday Mail (Qld)
PAULINE Hanson is furious with immigration policy again - but this time she's on the outside looking in.
The former One Nation leader is battling US red tape as she seeks to become a refugee from the hot Australian Christmas.
"I had planned a holiday in Manhattan but because of the time I spent in prison there is a problem with the visa," she said.
"I have to go down to Sydney to the American consulate to show them documents that show the case was quashed.
"I was furious when I found out - absolutely furious. I might even have to have my fingerprints taken before they will let me in," she said.
Ms Hanson was looking forward to a white Christmas. "I want to enjoy that real Christmas feeling, you don't really get it in Australia."
Ms Hanson was jailed in 2003 for electoral fraud and spent 73 days in prison before her conviction was overturned on 6 November, 2006.
She attempted a comeback in Sydney in 2004, standing as an independent for the Senate, but failed.
But last week the former fish shop owner, who has just finished writing her memoirs, again signalled a possible comeback to politics.
"My book is out in March and I will probably make a final decision on my future in February," she said at her 60ha farm west of Ipswich.
If she ran it would be as a Queensland independent but "you never know, a wonderful man could come and take me away from all this".
Ms Hanson, 52, is in a long-term relationship with Irish construction worker Seamus Doheny, 49.
"He hates the limelight, but at the end of the day he lives in Sydney and I live up here and if that doesn't change I am not going to put my life on hold for him," she said.
The former federal MP for Oxley said she started thinking about a comeback when Sydney radio station poll showed that 99 per cent of respondents wanted her to return.
North Queensland MP Bob Katter said he would not rule out taking Ms Hanson into his alliance of Independent MPs.
"But she has said that she wants to be her own boss and the last thing I want to do is pick a fight with Pauline Hanson."
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