Pauline Hanson took her fight over Labor's multicultural grants straight to Tony Burke's department on Tuesday, and she didn't get the answers she was after. At Senate estimates, the One Nation leader asked Home Affairs officials why hundreds of millions of dollars had gone out without open competition, and whether Labor's party headquarters had a hand in picking who got it.

Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke in London in September 2025, a file photo. Photo: Ryan Jenkinson / Parsons Media for the UK Home Office, via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0), cropped and resized.