One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has named her daughter Lee Hanson as a potential future leader of the party.
Hanson made the comments during a podcast interview with controversial right-wing figure Tommy Robinson that was recorded last week and recently posted online.
The pair discussed Lee Hanson, 42, who failed to win a Tasmanian Senate seat at the 2025 federal election but has vowed to return to politics.
“She’s a cluey kid,” Hanson said.
“She’s quite smart and highly respected. In the positions that she’s held, wherever she’s worked, they didn’t want to lose her.
“She took a cut in wages to come across (to politics). She said: ‘I know that if I don’t stand up … I’m frightened of where the country’s going.’”
Hanson said it was “great to work with” her daughter, who is currently an adviser to NSW One Nation Senator Sean Bell.
“She’s the future. She’s got the softer approach.”
When Robinson asked whether Lee Hanson could become the next One Nation leader, Hanson said her daughter had potential but would have to earn the position.
“She’s got the potential, but I don’t believe in nepotism,” Hanson replied.
“And she has to prove herself – not only to me, but also to the other members and to the public, and everything like that.
“That’s something she has to earn.”
The comments come as former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce is speculated to be a potential future leader of One Nation.
Nationals MP Llew O’Brien, a friend of Joyce, named him as a possible future leader last month.
“If Pauline is looking for someone, she has someone right in front of her face,” O’Brien told The Sydney Morning Herald.
Hanson’s comments about her daughter also come amid reported tensions between her and Joyce over her decision to meet with Robinson, a move Joyce was reported to have considered ill-advised.
Both Joyce and One Nation denied the claim.
Hanson is currently touring Europe and recently appeared with Robinson in his hometown of Luton, Bedfordshire. She was also spotted poolside with Australian mining billionaire Gina Rinehart in Sicily.
“I’m just gobsmacked because I wouldn’t think I was in England,” Hanson said during the tour.
One Nation has also recently slipped in the polls after surging earlier this year.
The party’s primary vote fell four points to 26 per cent in the latest Sky News Pulse figures, while Labor returned to the top of the primary vote on 28 per cent.
One Nation remains ahead of the Coalition, which recorded 20 per cent.
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