Pauline Hanson says she ‘had to have a conversation’ about immigration and the Aboriginal flag with new Farrer MP

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson (left), and One Nation MP for Farrer, David Farley. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP View image in fullscreen One Nation leader Pauline Hanson (left), and One Nation MP for Farrer, David Farley. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP Pauline Hanson says she ‘had to have a conversation’ about immigration and the Aboriginal flag with new Farrer MP David Farley was told One Nation’s policy was to fly only the Australian flag, party leader tells conference Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast One Nation’s leader, Pauline Hanson , says she “had to have a conversation” with the new Farrer MP, David Farley, after he appeared to defy her policies on immigration and flying Indigenous flags. Shortly before winning Farrer in May’s byelection – the first federal lower house seat One Nation has won outright – Farley said Labor’s current immigration intake of 306,000 was “probably not” too much . However, One Nation has a policy to cap migration at 130,000 people a year. Media union blasts Pauline Hanson’s ‘bitter, unprofessional’ attack on Guardian journalist Read more After the election, the Border Mail reported Farley would display three flags : the Australian, the Aboriginal and the Torres Strait Islander flags. But Hanson has said the One Nation policy is to fly only the Australian flag. Sign up for the Breaking News Australia email Asked about the party’s candidate vetting process at the Church and State summit in Brisbane on Saturday, Hanson said she only wanted like-minded people in the party. “People will tell you what you want to hear,” she said. “They really do. Case in point, David Farley, right? “He comes out during the election. What’s my policy? Stop immigration [at] 130,000 a year. “So he’d come and said ‘Oh no, allow immigrants in the country.’ Well, didn’t the media have a field day with that?” She also spoke about Farley saying he’d fly three flags from his office after his election, telling the audience that: “You can’t know everything about the person.” “But as I said to him … our policy [is] one flag, it’s the Australian flag, that’s it. So I had to have a conversation with him,” Hanson said. Farley later posted on Facebook that his office would fly the Australian flag, and that no flag would stand above it or replace it. Asked by Guardian Australia if that meant his office would not fly the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags, he said there were “plenty of flags for ceremonial events” and that Australians “unite under one flag”. “My grandfather fought the first world war under the flag and we buried him under the Australian flag. My father did the same … and when Dad died we buried him under the Australian flag,” he said. “We are one Australia, we have one flag, we unite under one flag.” Defections ‘will destroy us’ Hanson also told the summit more generally that the party “cannot deal” with internal fights and arguments. One