A top One Nation adviser has faced a Brisbane court after being charged with assault offences.
The media adviser to Queensland senator Malcolm Roberts, Sean Black, appeared in Brisbane magistrates court on Wednesday afternoon after being taken into the police watchhouse earlier in the day.
Black, a former Logan City councillor, has been charged with seven offences, including three counts of common assault, as well as three counts of assault occasioning bodily harm.
The seventh charge, and the detail of allegations made in a complaint to police last year, cannot be reported for legal reasons.
The court heard the alleged offences were historical, with some dating back as far as 2007.
He was granted conditional bail, which was unopposed by police.
Magistrate Jacqueline Payne found he did not pose a flight risk, after the court heard Black had plans to travel to England with his wife in September.
Black appeared calm in the dock after being led into court.
Black previously made local headlines while married to fellow Logan councillor Hajnal Ban, who wrote about her experience of leg-lengthening surgery in Russia in a book, God Made Me Small, Surgery Made Me Tall.
The couple, dubbed “Blackban”, divorced after two years in 2012.
Black, a onetime real estate agent, started in politics with Labor, acting as Young Labor state secretary and working as a staffer for the former treasurer Terry Mackenroth in the late 1990s before quitting the party.
He worked on the 2012 campaign of Liberal National party MP Michael Pucci, who is now One Nation state campaign director.
In February, Roberts wrote on Facebook that his staffer was “a great asset”, “hard-working” and “a personal friend”.
The matter will return to court on 19 June.
With Australian Associated Press
