{"id":402854,"date":"2026-04-11T11:14:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:14:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=402854"},"modified":"2026-04-11T11:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:14:40","slug":"police-check-for-rapist-hanson-aide-sean-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=402854","title":{"rendered":"Police check for rapist Hanson aide Sean Black"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The convicted rapist employed by Pauline Hanson\u2019s party needs a police check before he is allowed unescorted into the One Nation leader\u2019s office in Parliament House in Canberra, officials have confirmed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sean Black was jailed for five years \u2013 suspended after 27 months \u2013 in 2018 after he was found guilty by a jury of raping and violently assaulting a woman with whom he had been in a relationship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the time of his imprisonment, Mr Black was working for One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was rehired by the party on his release from jail and now works in One Nation\u2019s nat\u00adional headquarters near the Brisbane airport in a senior role that Senator Hanson has refused to publicly describe.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the time of his imprisonment, Mr Black was working for One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":403445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,35],"tags":[9562,14247,20070],"class_list":["post-402854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-breaking-news","tag-one-nation-party","tag-pauline-hanson","tag-sean-black"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":403446,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402854\/revisions\/403446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/403445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}