One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has defended a cartoon showing independent Senator Lidia Thorpe being run over by a bus, just days after independent MP Helen Haines was rammed by a car .

Hanson’s unapologetic stance in a Monday morning interview with radio station 2GB prompted Thorpe to accuse One Nation of leaving death threats against her unmoderated on its platforms for months.

On Sunday, AFP Commissioner Krissy Barrett urged politicians to speak carefully as she drew a direct link between inflamed rhetoric and the rise in violent threats. She indicated, when asked about a One Nation clip of cartoon character Bluey driving down Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and former Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, that there was a reaction when “examples like that” were produced.

But Hanson is determined not to take down two cartoons showing politicians being run over, posting on X Sunday night that “they will not be going anywhere” and telling 2GB on Monday she would not apologise to Thorpe for the 2023…