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faces bankruptcy   AM Archive - Thursday, 23 March , 2000 
00:00:00  Reporter: Kirsten Aiken  COMPERE: Pauline Hanson is
staring down the barrel of bankruptcy. With just one day to go
until she must repay more than half a million dollars of funds
given to the fraudulently registered One Nation Party, she's
admitted, she can't. Kirsten Aiken reports.  KIRSTEN AIKEN: It's
nearly D-day for Pauline Hanson. She's liable for the $502,000
given by the Electoral Commission to the fraudulently registered
One Nation Party after the 1998 Queensland elections.  PAULINE
HANSON: I will not be able to pay this debt by Friday.  KIRSTEN
AIKEN: It's not that Pauline Hanson hasn't tried to raise the
cash. She's made a spirited call for her supporters to dig deep,
to contribute to the Pauline Hanson fighting fund. While she
won't say just how much is in the kitty, she says the amount
falls well short of the half a million