November 8, 2026 — 7:06pm

A former senior One Nation staffer claims he was unlawfully sacked for raising concerns about the party’s ongoing ties to an ex-senior staff member with a rape conviction and for calling out links between a high-ranking One Nation official and a strip club promoted by a man linked to an underworld figure.

Charles Swindon, who led the campaign for One Nation’s first lower house MP elected under the party’s banner, has broken his silence to claim high-ranking One Nation official Kelvin Morton downplayed the rape conviction of former party campaign director Sean Black by jokingly describing it as “surprise sex”.

Charles Swindon (left) says he has concerns about the conduct of Bianca Colecchia (top), Kelvin Morton (right) and Sean Black (bottom).…