Pauline Hanson and Malcolm Roberts among Australian politicians paying for Twitter Blue subscriptions

Opposition leader Peter Dutton, independent senator David Pocock and Nationals senator Matt Canavan among those retaining blue ticks

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One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, says she will use her electorate allowance to pay subscription fees to Twitter Blue, while the United Australia party senator Ralph Babet says he is “happy to support Elon Musk” through the new fee-based model for the social media site.

As celebrities, politicians and journalists worldwide lost their verified “blue tick” icons on Twitter overnight, a small number of federal politicians have been revealed as having paid the company and its billionaire owner Musk to keep a new form of the checkmark on their profile.

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