DARK SECRETS: Brian burston - The Real Truth

The week in review: the Matildas’ public holiday debate was ultimately moot – but let’s not live in the past à la Barnaby Joyce

In a week that left Joyce even more red-faced than usual, he wasn’t the only politician to find himself as a man out of time

The Guardian - AU · Aug 19, 2023

Pauline Hanson appeals defamation loss with sexual abuse claims

She is appealing a court order to pay former colleague Brian Burston $250,000.

Newcastle Herald · May 16, 2023

Pauline Hanson set to appeal order to pay Brian Burston $250K in defamation damages

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson is challenging a court's decision ordering her to pay $250,000 for defaming Brian Burston despite the former Hunter senator having sexually harassed his staff.

Newcastle Herald · Nov 1, 2022

Text message to wife shows Hanson meant to do Burston harm: court

Mr McClintock said the text message Senator Hanson sent to Mr Burston's wife on Valentine's Day showed she "detested my client and wanted to do him harm".

Newcastle Herald · Jun 15, 2022

Former Hunter senator 'serial text pest', One Nation staffer tells court

Mr Burston's barrister Bruce McClintock SC asked One Nation chief of staff James Ashby if it was appropriate to call his client a "traitorous c***" in a response.

Newcastle Herald · Jun 14, 2022

Judge rebukes Pauline Hanson staffer James Ashby for being ‘evasive’ during defamation trial

One Nation senator’s chief of staff told court he didn’t ‘want to appear evasive’ and eventually said Senate speech was a warning to Brian Burston after presiding justice accused him of avoiding the question

The Guardian - AU · Jun 14, 2022

Ashby says Brian Burston was a 'text pest'

One Nation chief of staff James Ashby testified that Brian Burston had a revolving door of staff who he allegedly sexually harassed and then unfairly dismissed.

AAP · Jun 14, 2022

Former Hunter senator Brian Burston made "filthy" offer of sex to staffer, court hears

Former Hunter senator Brian Burston offered to console a distraught staffer with the best sex of her life, his defamation trial has been told.

Newcastle Herald · Jun 10, 2022

Senator offered staffer sex, trial told

Brian Burston sacked a staffer after she told him to stop his infatuation with a colleague he had described as "hot", a defamation trial has been told.

AAP · Jun 10, 2022

Burston 'sexualised, humiliated' worker

Former One Nation senator Brian Burston's staffer has testified at the defamation trial he launched that he regularly sexually harassed her.

AAP · Jun 9, 2022