You've probably always wondered when this might happen: a conservative female politician running for office starts to get ahead in the polls as we get close to an election and then suddenly someone finds some topless pictures taken of her 30 years ago and sells them to a newspaper. It's apparently happened to a member of Australia's One Nation Party, Pauline Hanson, who is denying the pictures are of her and claims there are all sorts of holes in the story of the man who claims to have taken them. The best way to solve this controversy is to . . . show her belly button? Interesting solutuon.Here's more from The Age:
Pauline Hanson has offered to show her belly button to the nation's media in an effort to prove nude pictures published yesterday are not of her.
The former One Nation leader fronted a press pack outside the Beaudesert Magistrates Court to furiously deny she had posed for amateur snaps sold to The Sunday Mail and Sunday Telegraph of a woman posing semi-naked on a hotel bed 30 years ago.
She also refuted claims made by a man purporting to be a former boyfriend, Jack Johnson, that the pair had met at a Brisbane supermarket before the photo shoot at a Coffs Harbour hotel, the Pelican Bay Resort, in 1975.
"I'm here to state the facts. In 1975, I was married, living on the Gold Coast and I had my second child," Ms Hanson said.
"To the best of my knowledge and personal investigations, the Pelican Bay Resort did not open until 1986 so it was not even around at that time. I've never worked in the northern suburbs of Brisbane and never worked in a grocery shop."
Ms Hanson, who is running as an independent for the seat of Beaudesert at next weekend's state election, showed photographs of herself sporting shoulder-length hair in October 1978 - three years after the alleged shoot took place - in her autobiography Untamed and Unashamed.
When pressed, she said she would also show her belly button for comparison against the woman's in the naked pictures.
