One Nation is a one-woman band and without Pauline Hanson will eventually disappear.
There would be very few political leaders who could match Pauline Hanson for consistency. Since bursting into Australian politics 25 years ago on an anti-Asian immigration platform, the former fish-and-chip shop owner has managed single-handedly to alienate her lieutenants one by one, from her party’s co-founders to her biographer and even her webmaster.
According to the ABC’s election analyst Antony Green, since 1998 there have been 36 MPs in state and federal parliaments under the banner of Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. Of those, 22 have quit the party before their term ended.after accusing One Nation of “defrauding NSW electoral funds”.to sit as an independent in the Senate, he declared the party “should be called Gone Nation”.
began like so: “Pauline Hanson’s One Nation was a shooting star that blazed spectacularly across Australia’s political skies during 1997 and 1998 before crashing to earth in 1999. Only faint smouldering traces now remain.”to fight electoral fraud charges and One Nation axed her name from all party material.
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