The long-term staffer Pauline Hanson selected to fill One Nation’s NSW senate vacancy is a Queensland resident, and the party is refusing to confirm if he has ever lived in the state he will soon represent.

Sean Bell, 38, was announced on Tuesday as One Nation’s nomination for the Senate seat vacated after Warwick Stacey quit parliament just three months after the May election due to health reasons.

One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has nominated her staffer for the party’s senate vacancy. Credit: Alex Ellinghausen

A spokesman for Hanson did not respond to questions from this masthead asking whether Bell had ever resided in NSW, saying only: “In response to all of these questions, I can confirm Sean Bell is in the process of moving from Queensland to NSW.”

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