Pauline Hanson's secret Covid heartbreak: One Nation leader reveals how Annastacia Palaszczuk's border policy has kept her apart from her mysterious lover of 13 years
- Covid restrictions keep Queensland Senator apart from her partner in NSW
- Hanson fears Queensland will keep its border shut for another year
- It has been almost two years since she has seen her daughter and grandchildren
- She says the media is 'sensationalising' Covid to make people afraid
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has revealed her Covid heartbreak - she has not seen her partner Tony Nyquist in months.
'For those people in Queensland who can't see their loved ones - I'm in that position,' Senator Hanson told Sky News on Monday.
'I can't see my partner who is in NSW and in lockdown there in Port Stephens and has been for the last couple of months.
'He's my partner of 13 years and he can't get across the border.'
One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has not seen her partner for months due to Queensland's border closure
The Queensland Senator called for state borders to be opened up across the country.
'As the Prime Minister has said, when we get to 80 per cent double vaccination for people in Australia the borders should be opened up and there should be no border closures at all in the future,' she said.
However, Ms Hanson said she does not think that will happen.
'I don't hold that confidence for Queensland because I think that she (Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk) is preparing to keep the border shut again for another year to anyone outside Queensland.'
Ms Hanson added that by Christmas it will have been two years since she has seen her daughter and grandchildren.
'And I can't get to see my new granddaughter who's 20 days old because she lives in NSW.
'So this is ridiculous. You're keeping families apart and she (Ms Palaszczuk) has no consideration for this whatsoever.'
Pauline Hanson says Annastacia Palaszczuk plans to keep Queensland's border closed for another year
She also accused Ms Palaszczuk of 'destroying businesses'.
'Businesses are going under. We've got people dying from suicide (due to lockdowns). We've got health issues here, other issues, and you (Ms Palaszczuk) talk about Covid deaths. I blame you and the media and everyone else who has been playing this up to the extent where a 90-year-old in palliative care died of Covid.
'You're putting up the Covid deaths, you're saying how many infections there are. You don't say there are 99 per cent rates of people surviving from Covid. You've got people dying in their 80s and 90s and 100 from Covid and you're sensationalising ... for fear. It's so wrong,' she said.
'This is what's putting the fear into people that Covid is a death sentence. It's not a death sentence. We are destroying people's lives by locking down borders.'
Ms Hanson called on Scott Morrison to do more.
'The Prime Minister has lost control of this country. That's why Palaszczuk is playing this game leading into an election which could possibly be by next March. So she puts as much pressure onto the Morrison government to lose the next election. This is all political as far as I'm concerned.
'And until Morrison takes control of the situation and calls the states into line, which he can only do through the High Court, of stopping them locking down the borders, Australians will not have their freedom.
'That's why we have these protests from Australians that have had enough. And I've had enough also.'
Anti-Vaxxer tradies protest at Melbourne's Shrine of Remberance. Pauline Hanson says both the police and protestors have been violent at the protests
Ms Hanson refused to condemn the violence seen at Covid-19 protests in Melbourne last week, including at the Shrine of Remembrance.
'Violence has been shown by both sides, by the police and by the protestors. People have got nowhere to go, they don't know who to turn to,' she said.
'And I get annoyed that because they go out and protest, (the media says) let's call them anti-vaxxers. These are people that have made a choice, they don't want to be forced to have the vaccination.
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'I know a specialist doctor who says 'I'm holding off as long as I can to have the vaxx.' I have professionals in the health profession ... who say they don't want to have the vaxx. They have seen the side-effects from people that have come into the hospital. So there's a lot more to this.'
Ms Hanson said anti-vaxxers do not get enough of an airing in the media.
'You hear from people who say 'I'll get vaxxed' but you don't hear from the other side of the argument.
'People are protesting because you can't keep locking them away for months at a time in their homes. The mental illness is escalating. Kids are self-harming, suicide is on the increase.
'People are not getting the medical treatment that they need,' she said.
