PoliticsAndrew Hastie calls Hanson and Joyce ‘lying cowards’ over One Nation ‘traitor’ cartoon

Liberal frontbencher Andrew Hastie says a One Nation cartoon posted by Pauline Hanson portrayed him as a traitor eight times after he testified against Ben Roberts-Smith in his failed defamation case against Nine newspapers. Hastie called Hanson and Barnaby Joyce “lying cowards”; both denied calling him a traitor.

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