'Gutter politics' and rape: The Black history of One Nation

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'Gutter politics' and rape: The Black history of One Nation

Independent Australia
16 Apr 2026, 03:00 GMT+

Pauline Hansons One Nation party has thrown a "warm protective blanket" over Sean Black, violent convicted rapist, wife-beater and purveyor of chaos. Investigations editorRoss Jonesreports.

According to The Australian:

The Canberra bubbles assumption of what the stereotypical One Nation voter looks like is being blown out of the water. For example, more women than men support One Nation.

If this is true, it's probably because the women polled had never heard ofSean Blackand are unaware of the warm protective blanket Pauline Hansons One Nation affords this violent convicted rapist, wife-beater and purveyor of chaos.

Until very recently, Black was PHONs campaign director, one of the partys innermost inner circle.

Sky News on 13 April 2026reported:

All we have is Hansons word that Black was sacked and she does have a way with words.

According to Sky:

Thats one way of dealing with staff.

Paulinesnot happyabout sacking Black, though:

What now? What happens? [Put him] on the scrapheap? Or should we bring in the death penalty for anyone who commits a crime?

According tothe Sydney Morning Herald:

Before his conviction for the rape and violent assault of his first wife, Black had led a "colourful" career including,according tothe Sydney Morning Herald:

During his years as a real estate agent Mr Black was also accused of rent-bidding and was named in Queensland Parliament by former Labor Housing MinisterRobert Schwartenfor engaging in the "un-Australian" activity.

July 2016 saw four PHON senators elected undischarged bankrupt Rodney Cullerton in WA, Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts in Qld and Brian Burston in NSW.

By October 2016, Black had been hired as a staffer for Roberts.

Brian Burston, who as a new Senator was closely involved with the workings of PHON at that time, told IA:

Then-ministerSchwarten reportedlysaid of Blacks first stint at One Nation as a staffer to Senator Roberts:

On 24 May 2017, Blackwas chargedby Queensland Police with rape and six counts of assault.

Whether Black confided the nature of his charges to Roberts is unclear, but Roberts kept him on until he himself was turfed out of the Senate in October 2017 in the great S44 debacle.

In July 2018, theABC reported:

The ABC reported:

Thetrial judge notedBlack showed no remorse for his crimes:

Blacks ex-wife Tanya endured further torture at his trial, because:

Even after the pair split, Tanya took Blacks threats of further harm seriously and lived in fear, telling the ABC she:

Black served two years and three months in the can, getting out in October 2020 and walkingstraight backinto his old job.

By the time Black was re-hired, the details of his domestic violence had been public for some time and were well-known to the upper party echelons.

Pauline's ON in polls but can't PHON a friend... at the AEC

Pauline Hanson's One Nation (PHON) claimed it would drop the PH part of its name last October. A lot has happened to the party since, but not that. Investigations editor Ross Jones reports.

Government figures show that in 20232024, one Australian woman was killedevery eight daysby intimate partner violence.

One in fourAustralian women have experienced intimate partner violence. In 2023-2024,nineout of tenhospitalisations as a result of intimate partner violence were women.

Pauline Hansons One Nation does not care about the thousands of Australian women who live in constant fear or worse.

It does not care about the thousands of traumatised children who witness their mother being bashed by a coward.

All it does is bleat about the outcry over Black being "gutter politics".

The principle that former criminals deserve the chance of re-admittance into civilised life once they have served their sentence is sound and necessary we can all make mistakes.

But men who belt women in front of their children are not in that category.