One Nation leader Pauline Hanson tells rally Ben Roberts-Smith is a person ‘I respect and I admire’
by Andrew Messenger from World news | The Guardian on (#764VS)
Hanson compares former soldier's prosecution for war crimes to her 2003 jailing for electoral fraud, which was later overturned
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The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, told a rally in support of Ben Roberts-Smith that the former soldier accused of war crimes is a person I respect and I admire", before its organiser called for an army of civilians" to support him.
About 100 supporters gathered in Rocks Riverside Park in Seventeen Mile Rocks in southern Brisbane on Sunday.
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