From Farage to Farrer, Pauline Hanson's politics are on the march and major parties are running scared

"Hanson’s One Nation party this month won its first federal lower house seat, crushing the main conservative parties in a regional farming district they had held for more than 75 years. The opposition leader, Angus Taylor, described it as an existential moment for the Liberal-National Coalition, whose collapse over the past 12 months has coincided with One Nation's rise."

"Deploying the same anti-immigration, anti-climate action, anti-establishment messaging as Donald Trump and Nigel Farage, and backed by Australia's richest person, Hanson now wants to target Labor-held territory and permanently reshape Australia's increasingly fractured political landscape."

"There is a frustration, there is a malaise [in the community], says Barnaby Joyce, the former National party leader and deputy prime minister who last year defected to One Nation. Overwhelming, there's a frustration that so many people have that we [Australia] have no vision and they are going to hand to their children a lesser nation than their parents handed to them. That is an intolerable proposition."

"Ever since arriving in the national spotlight as a 41-year-old former Queensland fish-and-chip-shop owner, Hanson has cast herself as an outsider, underdog and victim of mainstream political elites. She was originally preselected to run for the Liberal party at the 1996 federa"

Pauline Hanson, a long-time figure in Australian politics, is becoming more publicly supported as right-wing populism grows. Her One Nation party won its first federal lower house seat, defeating the Liberal-National Coalition in a regional farming district held for more than 75 years. The opposition leader described the result as an existential moment for the governing coalition, whose collapse over the past year has coincided with One Nation’s rise. One Nation uses anti-immigration, anti-climate action, and anti-establishment messaging similar to Donald Trump and Nigel Farage, and it is backed by Australia’s richest person. Hanson now seeks to target Labor-held areas and reshape Australia’s increasingly fractured political landscape.

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