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One Nation's Steve Dickson resigns over strip club footage
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia May 01, 2019 08:57am |
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| Author | The Guardian |
| News Date | Monday, April 29, 2019 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The One Nation Australian senate candidate Steve Dickson has resigned after footage emerged of him groping dancers and making disparaging comments about a woman in a Washington DC strip club.
Dickson said he was “deeply remorseful for my disrespectful comments towards women” and his wife was standing by him. “I found the footage difficult to watch as my words and actions under intoxication and in that environment, are not a true reflection of myself,” he said in a statement.
Dickson had been Queensland state president of the anti-Muslim One Nation Party and a Senate candidate in elections on 18 May. He was also caught saying on the footage recorded by al-Jazeera during an undercover investigation that “I’ve done more Asian than I know what to do with” and that strip clubs were better in the Philippines because women danced on top of the bars and “then take everything off”.
Speaking at an early morning media conference, the One Nation party leader Pauline Hanson said the footage “cannot be ignored or condoned” and she had accepted Dickson’s offer to resign. She said she would not tolerate her children behaving that way towards women, and would not condone her candidate’s “dealing with women in this fashion” either. |
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