Hanna has served on the Board of Victim Support Service, and is Patron of numerous local sporting clubs.

He was a long-serving member of the Seaview High School Governing Council and had been President of Friends of Glenthorne.

Despite an improved primary vote, he narrowly lost his seat at the 2010 election, finishing third after all non-major party preferences had been distributed.

The court ruled the leaflets – labelling Hanna "soft on crime" – were defamatory and not factual, yet there was a right to express such opinions.

[3] Some of the local issues Hanna campaigned on were: upgrading the Oaklands rail crossing and making Glenthorne a forested recreational park - both aspirations which have since been realised.