Biography

Parliamentary service

• Elected to the House of Representatives for Oxley, Queensland, 1996. Defeated at general elections 1998. Elected to the Senate for Queensland 2016. Re-elected 2022.

Committee service

• Joint Select: Australia's Family Law System served from 19.9.2019 to 23.10.2019; Australia's Family Law System served as Deputy Chair from 24.10.2019 to 22.11.2021
• Joint Standing: National Broadband Network served from 11.10.2016 to 18.6.2018
• Senate Select: Lending to Primary Production Customers served as Chair from 13.11.2017 to 6.12.2017
• Senate Standing: Selection of Bills served from 26.7.2022 to present

Parliamentary party positions

• Independent. Served: 02.03.1996 to 27.06.1997
• Pauline Hanson's One Nation. Served: 27.06.1997 to 03.10.1998, 02.07.2016 to present
• Leader of the Federal Parliamentary Pauline Hanson's One Nation from 2.7.2016.
• Pauline Hanson's One Nation Whip in the Senate from 2.7.2019.

Personal

• Born: 27.5.1954, Brisbane, Australia
• Gender: Female
• Marital Status: Divorced

Qualifications and occupation before entering Federal Parliament

• Mother of four.
• Small business owner from 1978 to 1997.

Local Government service

• Councillor, Ipswich City Council from 1994 to 1995.

Publications

• Pauline Hanson, the truth: on Asian immigration, the Aboriginal question, the gun debate and the future of Australia, Pauline Hanson, Ipswich, Qld: 1997.
• Untamed & unashamed: time to explain, JoJo Publishing, Docklands, Vic.: 2007.
• Pauline: in her own words, Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne: 2018.
• Reasons to vote for Albanese's voice, Pauline Hanson's One Nation, Queensland: 2023.