We all know that sexy images sell, but what if they’re of Former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson?

Alleged images of Hanson, who is running as an independent for the Queensland of Beaudesert, surfaced in a weekend edition of The Daily Telegraph. The female in the photos is depicted in various states of undress, and in one is sporting black lingerie.

Hanson says that she’s not ashamed of anything she’s done in her life, but at the same time she’s insisting that the photos are not her.

“I think it’s a set-up. I’m not going to say who I think it was, but why did it come out just before an election?” she told during an interview this morning on Brisbane radio. “I’ve never had photos like that taken of me.”

Hanson intends to take legal action not against the man who supplied the photos, but the media for printing them.

“I’m suing the media… The media never looked into their facts. They just got hold of these photos, published them and didn’t look back.”

Meanwhile the Telegraph’s editor Neil Breen has stood firm, insisting that the photos, which News Limited paid $15,000 for, are authentic. He says that Hanson is using the publicity to her advantage.

“She is a woman who plays the game, she’ll go on about the media and how she’s going to do something about the media,” said Breen.

The photographer in question, Jack Johnson, says that he’s an ex of Pauline’s, however she denies ever having known him. Johnson claims that he met Hanson in the 70s at a grocery store and that the shots were taken after a night of partying.

Breen has admitted to press that there were aspects of Johnson’s story that didn’t make sense, but he didn’t have any doubts about the photos.

Sydney advertising man Richard Rae, who worked closely with Hanson during her One Nation days, told the Daily Telegraph that Pauline had told him about the shots a decade ago, and that she’d always been nonchalant about them.

“She didn’t care then, and she doesn’t care now,” Mr Rae was quoted as saying. “She said, `...there are photographs. I don’t care about them’. I said, ‘If you don’t care then I don’t care’.”