Pauline Hanson has named her daughter, Lee Hanson, as a potential future leader of One Nation, the party she has led since founding it in 1997. The remark comes despite speculation that former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce could be a contender to eventually take charge of the minor party, with reports suggesting he is "right there" as an option.

Details of the succession discussion remain limited, but the comments mark one of the clearest public signals yet from Hanson about who might eventually inherit control of the party she built into a fixture of Australian politics. Lee Hanson has previously worked alongside her mother in a support capacity, while Joyce's potential involvement would represent a notable crossover from mainstream conservative politics into the One Nation fold.