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My colleague Sarah Martin , who’s reported extensively on Hanson, asks her about her daughter, Lee Hanson . Martin asks: double quotation mark Taxpayers are paying more than $160,000 a year for your daughter to seemingly campaign full-time in Tasmania, while employed at a political adviser for a New South Wales senator. Did you have any role in appointing her to that position? Hanson looks livid to see Martin there, and goes on a personal attack against her telling her that she’ll be banned from any future press conferences and refused any interview requests. 1:46 Pauline Hanson responds to Guardian journalist’s press club question with personal attack – video Hanson accuses Martin of having an “obsession” with her, her party and Gina Rinehart. double quotation mark Honestly you never give up. You will put out lies about me, well, I’ve had enough of that. You can read a few of Martin’s excellent works here , here and here . To Martin’s question, Hanson says that her daughter was hired on her merits. double quotation mark I didn’t get her that job. She got the job on her own merits, by someone who actually wanted to employ her. Her abilities, her skills in HR, her abilities in working for the Tas University eight years and was head of a department down there. So my daughter is very capable of doing it. Martin asks her again to clarify that she had no role in the hiring, and Hanson says that she has already answered the question. Hanson speaks to Guardian journalist Sarah Martin. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP