An Al Jazeera investigation recorded James Ashby — the chief of staff for One Nation's federal leader Pauline Hanson — and Queensland's One Nation leader Steve Dickson meeting with NRA representatives during a trip to Washington in Sept. 2018.

Reporter Rodger Muller posed as a gun lobbyist. He arranged and filmed meetings between One Nation and the NRA.

Before one of the meetings the One Nation pair talked to Muller about how donations of A$10 million would help the party pick up eight Senate (upper house) seats, which Dickson stated would grant the party the balance of power in parliament. “You’d have the whole government by the balls,” he said.

In the recordings Ashby claims One Nation could win two seats in the federal House of Representatives (lower house) with A$2 million.

"If you had 20 (million dollars) you would own the lower house and the upper house," he adds.

The ABC, which is screening the investigation in Australia, reported that in one meeting with the NRA, Dickson says: “Guns, in the scheme of things, are still going to be the be-all and end-all".

One Nation is an anti-immigration, anti-Islam party that has courted controversy for more than two decades. Hanson was widely condemned for wearing a burqa into parliament in 2017 in a stunt calling for the garment to be banned. In October last year 27 senators, including 10 government ministers, voted for her motion declaring "It's OK to be white".