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Pauline Lee Hanson ( née Seccombe, formerly Zagorski; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of One Nation, a right-wing populist political party. Hanson has represented Queensland in the Australian Senate since the 2016 Federal Election .
- One Nation (1997–2002; 2013–present)
8:27am May 1, 2024. The evidence has been given and closing arguments will begin in a bitter lawsuit accusing Senator Pauline Hanson of hate speech on the day Queen Elizabeth II died. The One Nation leader is being sued for racial discrimination by NSW Greens deputy leader Mehreen Faruqi.
- Miklos Bolza
- The Birth of One Nation
- Hanson’s Downfall and Political Resurrection
- Hanson’s Populist, Nativist Beliefs
- The Mainstreaming of The Far-Right
- Hanson’s Legacy and Impact on Society
Hanson first emerged on the political landscape in 1996 when she was disendorsedas the Liberal Party candidate for Oxley following racist comments she made about Indigenous people in a letter to the Queensland Times. She contested the election anyway, running as an independent on a self-described nationalist, populist and protectionist platform, an...
One Nation’s initial success, however, was short-lived. Hanson failed to win the newly redistributed seat of Blair at the 1998 federal election. Her party then began to suffer from internal divisions, poor leadership and Hanson’s personal and financial scandals. She was subsequently convictedof electoral fraud in 2003. (It was later overturned on a...
Hanson can best be described as a populist radical right politician, alongside such figures as Donald Trump, Nigel Farage, Marine Le Pen and Viktor Orbán. For populist figures, politics are seen as a struggle between everyday, ordinary people and a corrupt, illegitimate and out-of-touch elite. But more importantly, the populist radical right also u...
Hanson’s resurgence in 2016 occurred in a very different political climate than her first stint in parliament in the late 1990s. Political scientist Cas Mudde refers to the 21st century as the “fourth wave of the far-right”. It is a time when far-right ideas are becoming increasingly tolerated, debated and normalised in the mainstream and the bound...
There are a couple of ways to think about Hanson’s legacy and impact on society. The first is to gauge her direct influence on government policy through her role as a parliamentarian. There’s no doubt she has wielded considerable influence as one of a number of senators to hold the balance of power in recent years. Yet, despite some success in infl...
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Jul 27, 2022 · Pauline Hanson interjected during the Acknowledgement of Country on Wednesday; Politicians have condemned her actions as racist; Senator Hanson opposes the Aboriginal flag being hung in the Upper ...
- Dana Morse
May 1, 2024 · Pauline Hanson’s legal team played footage in court showing the One Nation leader telling a white senator to go back to their birth country, as Hanson defends a racial discrimination suit brought against her by Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi over a tweet telling her to “piss off back to Pakistan”.
Aug 16, 2023 · One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has successfully appealed the verdict of a defamation lawsuit brought by former senator Brian Burston in which he was awarded $250,000 in damages. Key points: Pauline Hanson was last year ordered to pay Brian Burston $250,000 in damages. Three judges today overturned the findings of the defamation case.
Jun 17, 2022 · Pauline Hanson has retained her Senate seat for another term, with the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) officially declaring she finished fifth in Queensland's upper house race. Labor's Anthony Chisholm was expected to finish fifth, but was leapfrogged by Hanson, putting him in the sixth and final spot.
