Finger pointing, accusations and legal retribution swirl around an apology to Pauline Hanson over nude photos News Limited now admits are not of her.

Hanson made another bid at political life in Saturday's Queensland election as an independent candidate for the seat of Beaudesert but lost to the Liberal National Party's Aidan McLindon.

Just one week prior, censored photographs, published in News Limited newspapers last Sunday and broadcast on the Nine and Seven networks, claimed to show a 19-year-old Ms Hanson posing naked in the 1970s for photographer and then boyfriend Jack Johnson.