Al Jazeera secretly recorded One Nation's James Ashby and Steve Dickson in 2019

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This video reveals Al Jazeera's secret recording of One Nation members discussing political strategies and funding in Washington D.C. The conversation highlights their ambition to gain political power by securing seats and influencing the electoral process, contingent on significant financial donations.

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1Introduction of Al Jazeera's secret recording of One Nation members.
2Discussion of political strategy and gaining power in Australia.
3Exploration of financial needs and potential donations.
4Explanation of election financing rules and reporting.
5The implications of funding on political influence.

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Pauline Hanson's chief of staff James Ashby and the party's Queensland leader Steve Dickson were covertly filmed during a series of meetings with powerful pro-gun advocates in Washington DC in 2019. Footage from inside the meetings, filmed as part of an Al Jazeera investigation, shows the pair seeking political donations and discussing political strategies to undermine Australia's gun restrictions. "We get the balance of power, very simply that means that we have the testicles of the Government in our hand at every given stage," Mr Dickson said in a meeting with the NRA. "And guns, in the scheme of things, are still going to be the be-all and end-all." Al Jazeera's investigation involved setting up a fake gun lobby group called Gun Rights Australia headed by a fake gun rights advocate, Rodger Muller. Mr Muller posed as a grassroots campaigner to gain access to the NRA and One Nation, then arranged meetings between the two groups and secretly filmed them. He also recorded a meeting between the One Nation staffers and representatives from Koch Industries, which funds various conservative causes in the US. Al Jazeera's covert investigation culminated in a documentary titled How to Sell a Massacre, which aired on the international news channel last night. The efforts to solicit money from the NRA and other US gun advocates took place just weeks before Australia's Federal Parliament changed electoral laws to ban foreign donations to political parties. (ABC)

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Al Jazeera secretly recorded One Nation's James Ashby and Steve Dickson in 2019 We're sitting in f**king Washington DC, the centre of the free world Talking about how we might change the future of the planet We would win potentially the balance of power If we were to win potentially the balance of power if we took two seats in the lower house and you know what? I reckon we can do that with $2 million if you went $20m, you would you would own the lower house and upper house you would have the balance of power in both houses if we could get that sort of money if we could get that sort of money we could change Australia if One Nation could get $10 million if One Nation could get $10 million you'd pick up eight senate seats eight Senate seats that guarantees you the balance of power I mean, out of how many you'd have the whole government on board what you do in Australia has a huge impact What you do in Australia has a huge impact. In his pitch for money Dickson makes a remarkable offer One Nation will alter the electoral process in Australia if Koch industries gives them money what she can do to help us and it, it's gonna get down to money at the end of the day as James started to touch on we can change the voting system in our country the way people operate we have the people we've got Senator Pauline Hanson she is the most recognised person not only in politics but as a person in our country so the ingredients are there we just don't have the petrol to put in the engine whatever you can do would be fantastic I'm not familiar with your election financing rules, regulations not familiar with Australia and sort of how that what, culturally how that's viewed. what sort of money you're allowed to take Or, I just help me understand that better there are no set limits on donations either a corporation no, none what there is is a reporting regime anything over $13,000 in a federal election must be reported and it's, uh recorded on a website basically the public or other political parties can go and have a look at it

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We're sitting in f**king Washington DC, the centre of the free world talking about how we want to change the future of the planet. If we were to win, potentially the balance of power. If we took two seats in the lower house. And you know what? I reckon we could do that with two million dollars. I reckon we can do that with $2 million. If you went $20m, you would own the lower house and the upper house. You would have the balance of power in both houses. If we could get that sort of money, imagine, we could change Australia. If One Nation could get $10 million dollars... If One Nation could get $10 million. you'd pick up eight Senate seats. Eight Senate seats, that guarantees you the balance of power. I mean, out of how many? You'd have the whole government on board. What you do in Australia has a huge impact. What you do in Australia has a huge impact. In his pitch for money, Dickson makes a remarkable offer. One Nation will alter the electoral process in Australia if Koch industries gives them money. What she can do to help us. And it, it's gonna get down to money at the end of the day. As James started to touch on. We can change the voting system in our country, the way people operate. We have the people, we've got the momentum. We've got Senator Pauline Hanson. She's the most recognised person, not only in politics, but as a person in our country. So the ingredients are there. We just don't have the petrol to put in the engine. Whatever you can do, would be fantastic. I'm not familiar with your election financing rules, regulations. Not familiar with Australia and sort of how that, culturally how that's viewed. What sort of money you're allowed to take. Or, I just help me understand that better. There are no set limits on donations. Either for personal or corporation? No, none. What there is, is a reporting regime. Anything over $13,000 in a federal election must be reported. And it's, uh, recorded on a website, basically. The public or other political parties can go and have a look at it.