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.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n It began with a few words and the words were to\u00a0George Christensen<\/a>. Prior to the July 2 federal election, the Queensland Liberal National Party MP for Dawson took a phone call from One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson<\/a>. In his famous 2016 expose on Christensen<\/a>,\u00a0(the Good Weekend<\/em> one with multiple images of him brandishing a cane knife while lurking in sugarcane), Fairfax journalist\u00a0Matthew Knott<\/a>\u00a0revealed the deal for PHON\u00a0not to run a candidate in Dawson against him.<\/p>\n Before the election, Christensen was told during a phone call with Pauline Hanson that she wouldn’t run a candidate in Dawson, despite One Nation being assured of a strong result there. Christensen himself voted for One Nation at the 1998 Queensland election at a time of disillusionment with the National Party. “Why would I run someone against you?” Christensen remembers Hanson telling him. “You’re saying all the things I say.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Months after his re-election, Christensen returned the favour by espousing the common virtues of PHON\u00a0and the LNP. He declared to Sky News<\/em>\u00a0viewers, “One flag, one set of values , one nation”.<\/p>\nEnter George Christensen<\/h2>\n
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