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One Nation Victoria leader Warren Pickering has said he was aware his party secretary ran a strip club linked to the Comanchero bikie gang but that he did not judge her as guilty by association, as the party faces growing scrutiny over its selection of candidates and personnel.
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party → say → candidates
Speaking at a Melbourne Press Club event on Thursday, Pickering said the party had identified “a little bit of a hole” in its vetting processes, after it was forced to disendorse one candidate for praising Hitler, and another who had extremist anti-Muslim views and rejected the concept of sexual consent.
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who → speak → consent
One Nation is polling with primary support of 23 per cent ahead of the state election – 1 point ahead of Labor – and is promising to make Victoria the country’s toughest state on crime.
But that commitment has been undermined by revelations published by this masthead that One Nation’s state secretary, Bianca Colecchia, spent eight years working as a manager at the Melbourne strip club Dreams, whose key promoter had once been accused by police of having deep links to the Comanchero bikie gang.
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promoter → poll → gang
Coleecchia ran the CBD venue – which is owned by her partner, Salvatore Aparo – over the same period that its chief promoter and liquor supplier was Mike “Skinny” Jones, whom police previously accused of being a bikie gang money cleaner.
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police → run → whom
“It wasn’t a problem because we understand that you cannot tar people with a brush if they’re three-times removed,” Pickering said on Thursday.
“She happens to work at an establishment and a venue that previously employed someone that obviously had links – implied links – from many years ago.
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that → understand → links
Pickering, who is running for election in the seat of Pakenham, said One Nation had examined Coleecchia’s connection to the club before she ran as a candidate in the last federal election and found “no red flags whatsoever”.
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she → run → flags
Victoria Police accused Jones in 2018 of “laundering funds through his legitimate business of promotions and liquor wholesaling” for Comanchero boss Mick Murray.
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Police → accuse → Murray
Police withdrew a money-laundering prosecution against Jones in 2020 and instead used civil proceeds-of-crime powers against him.
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Police → withdraw → him
Jones settled the proceeds-of-crime case in 2023 by paying a confidential sum into state coffers.
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Jones → settle → coffers
One Nation has also struggled to contain the extremist views of some of the 112 candidates it has endorsed for the state election on November 28.
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it → struggle → November
Preston candidate Franco Guardiani was disendorsed on Tuesday after social media posts came to light in which he praised Adolf Hitler, questioned the Holocaust and lamented the Nazis’ defeat in World War II.
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he → disendorse → II
The party’s previous candidate for the seat of Melbourne, Matthew Collins, stood down this month after being questioned about comments promoting far-right anti-Muslim rhetoric and suggesting sexual consent was “cringe”.
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consent → stand → rhetoric
Pickering said he was part of the interview process for One Nation candidates and that its vetting process to weed out extreme views was improving.
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process → say → views
“We’ve identified a little bit of a hole a little while ago that we’ve now rectified,” he said.
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he → identify → that
The vetting system did not crawl social media pages back far enough to uncover candidates’ problematic statements, Pickering said.
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Pickering → crawl → statements
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