Australia's One Nation party has confirmed it used party funds to build a $56,000 shed on the private property of its secretary, James Ashby, in Yeppoon, Queensland. The party says the expenditure was a loan to a micro-distillery venture called Small Batch Brewing — a company privately owned by Ashby, party leader Pauline Hanson, and a former treasurer — approved unanimously by the national executive, on which Ashby himself sits. Critics have questioned the arrangement given the company has no revenue stream, holds no liquor licence, and Ashby is currently living in the shed while renovating his property.