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Pauline Hanson’s views haven’t changed since her first speech. But now she is resonating with Australia’s bitter and resentful mood | Paul Daley

Pauline Hanson’s views haven’t changed since her first speech. But now she is resonating with Australia’s bitter and resentful mood | Paul Daley

All the One Nation leader had to do to ‘win’ in the eyes of her movement’s base was turn up as the flaming beacon of their discontentGet our , or Thirty years ago, when I watched Pauline Hanson deliver her to the House of Representatives, there was a sense around the halls of federal parliament that she was a radical, racist outlier who’d soon disappear.Hanson has survived more than her share of political vagaries to the point her One Nation is topping party popularity polls. Indeed, One Nation’s recent success in South Australia and at the presages potentially far broader electoral wins.

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