A POLICE officer under investigation for a series of racial slurs against an Aboriginal rights campaigner is the One Nation party’s candidate for Townsville.

It was revealed in July last year that Senior Constable Leanne Rissman was being probed for allegedly using a fake Facebook account to make racially charged statements to Boomerang Justice campaigner Joyce Capewell, who is an activist against indigenous deaths in custody.

The One Nation candidate reportedly called Aborigines “oxygen thieves ... (with a) disgusting aversion to work”, while using the Boomerang Justice Facebook page under the false name “Sharia Anne”.

She also posted that the campaigner should “get off your ass and get a job”.

A Queensland Police Service spokesman last night confirmed there was an ongoing investigation into the officer.

There are no rules barring a member of the police service from standing for election.

One Nation founder and candidate for Lockyer Pauline Hanson did not return calls from The Sunday Mail. The party’s campaign team also did not return calls, while Ms Capewell and Ms Rissman could not be reached for comment.

Ms Hanson became a household name for the wrong reasons when she used her maiden speech in Parliament to claim Australia was “in danger of being swamped by Asians”.

Last year she claimed that she knew “not every Muslim is a terrorist but, to the best of my knowledge, every terrorist attack has been by Muslims”, despite recent attacks by white supremacists in the US, Buddhist-led attacks in Sri Lanka and the long history of Christian violence in Ireland.

In 1998 her fledgling political party won 11 seats in Queensland, including Lockyer, but soon fell into infighting and obscurity.