The furious Queensland Senator yesterday refused to answer reporters’ questions about secret recordings that could create problems for her and other former senior One Nation officials.

Senator Hanson even referred to slain Queensland cop Brett Forte and the cold weather as she would not be drawn on increasingly serious claims over the origins of a light plane she used.

“I can’t believe that you would ask me some stupid question like that when I have had a gentleman shot dead in his electorate,” she said in Canberra yesterday.

“We have people homeless in the cold weather and you’re worried about that from some disgruntled ­people.”

The Australian Electoral Commission is now investigating whether the Jabiru aircraft was donated by Victorian developer Bill McNee. Ms Hanson and her chief of staff James Ashby insist the plane is owned by Mr Ashby.

But in a taped conversation from November 20 last year Ms Hanson indicates to former party treasurer Ian Nelson that the aircraft was donated by Mr McNee.

“Who knows Bill’s name. No one. We always kept it very, very quiet,” Ms Hanson tells Mr Nelson in a secret recording handed to the AEC. In it she also appears to speculate that former party secretary Saraya Beric was responsible for leaks about the plane.

“Who knows that he paid the money upfront for the ­office ... It was the four of us that knew. It was tight-knit. I have to see what else she had said to them.

“I get pissed off, Ian, because people get the shits with me and then they go to the media and this turns to shit.”

Ms Beric has denied being the source of the leak.

That revelation has only added to Senator Hanson’s headaches, with the AFP, Queensland Police and the Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission making inquiries into an earlier recording in which Mr Ashby raised a plan to cash in on the state elections at the expense of candidates. Mr Ashby says the plan was never enacted, and Ms Hanson has insisted the party has disclosed all required donations.

Mr Ashby maintains the Jabiru, which was used by Senator Hanson during the 2016 federal election, was his and wasn’t donated to the party by Mr McNee.

Trade Minister Steve Ciobo said the latest tape would likely be added to the donation laws investigation.

PAULINE’S WING WOES

April 3, 2017: ABC airs allegations that former One Nation treasurer Ian Nelson warned leader Pauline Hanson that a light plane she had used had to be disclosed as a political donation since property developer Bill McNee helped fund the purchase of the plane by her chief of staff James Ashby.

April 4, 2017: Australian Electoral Commission confirms it is reviewing whether One Nation breached financial disclosure laws.

April 6, 2017: New allegations emerge that Mr McNee told former high-ranking branch members he bought the plane for One Nation.

May 21, 2017: A recording allegedly reveals Mr Ashby discussing a plan on how to make money from the Queensland election. One Nation says the plan was never pursued.

May 25, 2017: AFP confirm they are evaluating whether to further investigate those claims regarding Mr Ashby.

May 30, 2017: Another recording from November 2016 appears to reveal Senator Hanson indicating that the light aircraft was donated by Mr McNee.