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High-profile One Nation staffer James Ashby has been caught on tape suggesting the party raise money by fleecing its own candidates and the Electoral Commission of Queensland at the next state election.

In a recording of a One Nation meeting obtained ($) by the Courier-Mail, Ashby suggests the party sell campaign items such as signs and other printing material to candidates at inflated prices, write off the profit and submit full-price receipts to the ECQ for reimbursement. “We don’t need a middleman. We can make money out of this. We buy the corflutes for $5. We sell them to them for $11”, Ashby is recorded as saying.

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Alex McKinnon, The Saturday Paper