A truck advertising One Nation's Tasmanian senate candidates alongside Pauline Hanson has been set on fire outside a Hobart pub.
Police and firefighters were called to the Shoreline Hotel in Howrah on Sunday night after the truck featuring Hanson alongside candidates Adam Lambert and Matthew Stephen went up in flames.
Pauline Hanson has accused the left of "acting like they're above the law" after a One Nation truck was set alight in Tasmania. Source: AAP
Hanson later took to Twitter, saying her candidate had in fact been inside the neighbouring grocery store doing his shopping when the fire started.
"Our One Nation truck in Tasmania was parked outside a shop while our candidate was buying groceries," Hanson tweeted on Sunday night.
"Someone was seen torching it before fleeing. It is amazing how the left call for tolerance but act like they’re above the law when you don’t agree with their ideologies."
The incident came less than 24 hours after the federal election saw across the country.
Hanson again blamed the left for the incident on her 'Pauline Hanson's Please Explain' Facebook page.
"This is what the left do to conservative parties," she wrote.
"Yesterday, one of our volunteers was bashed and called a 'white dog' because he asked a man to stop wrecking our signs in Cowan.
"I’m concerned about where politics is heading in this country."
Hanson says she is "concerned about where politics is heading in this country" after a One Nation truck was set alight. Source: Facebook 'Pauline Hanson's Please Explain'
A Tasmania Police spokesperson told SBS News on Monday morning an investigation into the incident was ongoing.
"Tasmania Fire Service and Tasmania Police [attended] a vehicle fire at the Shoreline Hotel in Howrah," the spokesperson said.
"Police are investigating and treating the fire as suspicious."
