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How long before One Nation blocks the Age. The party that promotes transparency but only the transparency it approves of. 😡 “A senior One Nation official spent eight years managing a Melbourne strip club whose key promoter had once been accused by police of involvement in “serious criminal activity” and of having deep links to the Comanchero bikie gang. The revelations about Bianca Colecchia, a longtime Dreams strip club manager turned One Nation federal election candidate and Victorian state secretary, has emerged as the latest case involving a key party figure facing questions about their past and whether it aligns with the populist party’s stated policies. An investigation by this masthead and 60 Minutes can also reveal that a senior volunteer who worked on One Nation’s Farrer federal byelection and its campaign for the Victorian state seat of Nepean is facing drug charges, having arrived at the party as a member with a series of previous criminal offences to his name. Meanwhile, the man recruited by One Nation to overhaul its vetting of candidates and staff has inflated his own past achievements and engaged in toxic workplace conduct towards others in the party. One Nation general manager Kelvin Morton describes himself in an online resume as a “former army officer with weapons training and special communications training”. This masthead has confirmed Morton never completed his army officer training and served only as a part-time reservist while studying. He has also been caught drastically overstating his role in a US election campaign in 2008. Leaked messages reveal that despite Morton’s public claim to be professionalising One Nation in his role of general manager, he secretly proposed to run “counter-intelligence” operation to humiliate a fellow One Nation staffer by feeding him false information about a $15 million donation from James Packer in the hope he would leak it to journalists. In other messages Morton sent to One Nation staff, he described a party employee as a “fat, ginger man-baby” and “the most full of shit f---stick known to man! (Or women, and I’ll even throw animal in there!)”. Morton is also under scrutiny over his handling of concerns raised inside One Nation about Colecchia’s ties to the Dreams strip club. For eight years, Colecchia helped manage the Melbourne CBD venue alongside her partner and longtime club owner Salvatore Aparo. Over this same period, Dreams’ chief promoter and liquor supplier was Mike “Skinny” Jones, a man that court records reveal was previously accused by police of being a bikie gang money cleaner.” Think long and hard before you give these people any power in governing our country. theage.com.au/politics/feder…