Japanese guests queue for photos with Pauline Hanson at Parliament House

Former NSW trade and investment commissioner Mike Newman recounts how One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson was mobbed by Japanese guests eager for photos during the Nara Treaty celebration at Parliament House.

“I happened to be at her table, and for three hours, I don’t think she got to sit down … there were probably 100, 150 people who were wanting to have a photo during the evening, all of them beaming and smiling,” Mr Newman told Sky News host Andrew Bolt.

“A common comment that came from the Japanese was that, you know what, you are so much like our own Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi.”