Chrissgaff1000,
You said, "She was later acquitted and received over three million in compensation as well as her party election refund monies".

Chris, can you confirm that?

My understanding s that Pauline Hanson DID NOT receive any compensation from Qld in relation to her jailing and never received back the electoral funding the government demanded from her.

I always have considered this to be the greatest injustice in our political history

A quick Google search reveals: "In quashing Hanson’s conviction the Court emphasized that she would be ineligible for exgratia compensation for her three months of wrongful imprisonment.8 This was based on the argument that “it should be understood that result [quashing Hanson’s conviction] will not mean the process has to this point been unlawful. While the appellants’ experience will in that event have been insupportably painful, they will have endured the consequence of adjudication through due process in accordance with what is compendiously termed the rule of law.”9 This was upheld when Hanson’s quest for compensation was denied by Queensland’s Attorney General in October 2005."

What fun we have, & how simplistic have the greens become.

They have wrapped Palmer in a blanket of love, & to them he can do no wrong.

This must be the most dramatic "enemy of my enemy is my friend" cliche that has ever been seen.

That the greens, who hate mining, should virtually adopt Palmer as a hero really does tell us what a bunch of posers they really are

Hanson simply escaped on a legal technicality!

Paul,
You do like to put spin on things.

You could call Hanson's aquittal a technicality or a fundamental issue regarding membership of any organization. the prosecution was arguing that One Nation members were not members, but merely supporters, even though they had filled out membership forms and paid membership fees. It should have been dismissed in the first instance.

If the appeal had not been successful, it would have meant that members of other organizations could not claim membership by paying fees. This would affect thousands of people in Qld, like members of Rotary, P&C, sports clubs, RSL and many others.

Of course the charges were trumped up and political. Beattie and Abbott colluded on this as Hanson was a threat to both major parties.

It worked, as Hanson took a long while to recover from the trauma of jail. Not the same person either.

Hanson should be compensated for the wrongful jailing and her legal costs. The electoral funding also should be returned to her.

A sorry episode in our political history. More expected in a banana republic than a, so called, democracy like ours.

"Hanson simply escaped on a legal technicality!" Paul 1405

Gillard will probably get out of trouble from the Crimes and Misconduct Commission on the same grounds. But that's when a legal technicality is a good thing, right Paul.