NOT WELCOME ANYMORE… – Brittany Higgins’ husband has reportedly been banned from the National Press Club after staging a political stunt during Pauline Hanson’s speech.
Brittany Higgins‘ husband David Sharaz has reportedly been banned from the National Press Club after the campaign group he works for disrupted a speech by Pauline Hanson.
A projector screen dropped behind the One Nation leader mid-speech on June 17 with a banner which said: ‘I opposed a pay rise to workers while I took a $100,000 pay rise for myself.’
Sharaz, GetUp!’s media and campaigns lead, was seated in the audience and the group later posted a statement saying: ‘It was us.’
NPC chief executive Maurice Reilly said on Wednesday he has declined Sharaz’s membership application and banned him from all events.
‘He is not welcome at the club in the future,’ he said in a statement.
‘We are only aware of interviews that they [police] have conducted with Club personnel. The investigation is continuing.
‘We will consider our legal position when the outcome of the AFP investigation is completed. Quotations for the damage are still being sourced.’
The Daily Mail understands no formal decision on Sharaz’s membership application has been communicated to either GetUp! or Sharaz.
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Brittany Higgins’ husband David Sharaz has reportedly been banned from the National Press Club. Pictured: Sharaz and Higgins at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival
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Sharaz is GetUp!’s media and campaigns lead. The group disrupted Pauline Hanson’s address to the National Press Club in June
A spokesperson for One Nation declined to comment when approached by the Daily Mail.
On the day of the incident, the NPC confirmed footage and other evidence had been referred to the Australian Federal Police.
Following the stunt, the NPC apologised to Hanson and said two people entered the building without permission and installed a separate drop-down screen.
‘It is evident that a further person present during the address activated a remote device to trigger the unfurling of the coiled banner,’ the spokesman said at the time.
‘David Sharaz was seen filming the incident on his phone and, after the banner had lowered, left abruptly.’
The incident has been described as unprecedented at the NPC
Hanson asked NPC President, Sky News journalist Tom Connell, if it was the ‘first’ time such an incident had happened at the Press Club after her speech.
‘I believe it is,’ he said, to which Hanson replied: ‘I get a lot of firsts in my life.’
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Hanson has also said she ‘quite liked’ the left-wing campaign group’s depiction of her wearing pixelated meme sunglasses
After the protest, Hanson joked that she ‘quite liked’ the left-wing campaign group’s depiction of her wearing pixelated meme sunglasses.
Her address to the National Press Club prompted debate after she took aim at radical Islam, transgender ideology, media outlets that she claimed treated her unfairly and other institutions.
She rejected accusations One Nation is a racist party and said it was common sense to oppose what she described as the ‘failed policy of multiculturalism’.
One Nation has said migrants would still be free to speak their own languages at home if it were to win government, but they would need to be Australians first and put their ethnicity or creed second.
