Pauline Hanson

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'''Pauline "Australia's Most Honest Politician", "The Witch of Ipswich" Hanson'''<ref group="note">The Ipswich west of Brisbane. Not the English one, or any of the three American ones.</ref> a.k.a. ''James Ashby'' {{lived|27 May 1954|}} is an [[Australia]]n former fish-and-chip shop owner and current leader of [[One Nation]], a [[far-right]] [[political party]]. As of 2019, the party holds two Federal Senate seats. 

Hanson's voraciously anti-immigration stance is weakened somewhat by the fact that about 49% of Australians in 2016 were either foreign-born or had at least one foreign-born parent.<ref>[http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/lookup/Media%20Release3 2016 Census: Multicultural]. Australian Bureau of Statistics. June 27, 2017.{{quotebox|The 2016 Census shows that two thirds (67 per cent) of the Australian population were born in Australia. Nearly half (49 percent) of Australians had either been born overseas (first generation Australian) or one or both parents had been born overseas (second generation Australian).}}</ref> It was weakened further by her 2010 decision to emigrate to a small, rather crowded country on the other side of the world.<ref name="uk">
[http://www.news.com.au/national/uk-too-full-of-immigrants-says-pauline-hanson/story-e6frfkvr-1225953243773 "UK too full of immigrants, says Pauline Hanson"], ABC (11/14/10, 5:12AM). It's called "convenient hypocrisy", petal.
</ref>
Still apparently not getting it, in 2016 Hanson campaigned on the issue of [[Islam| Muslims]] in Australia.  It was years of cynical [[Wedge issue| wedge]] politics that gave this idiot oxygen in the first place.

She talks a good game about [[neoliberalism]] and sovereignty, but what she really is a [[Populism|demagogue]], rounding up support from [[Crank magnet| disparate groups]] of disenfranchised voters: [[free trade | free-trade]] opponents, [[climate change denial | climate-change denial]]ists, [[sovereign citizen]]s, you name it.  They've all hitched themselves to Hanson's bandwagon because they're too extreme even for the right.

== Liberal party stint ==

{{cquote|I hate Asians? [[I'm not prejudiced, but...|No!]] I just don't want to see Australia become Asianized or swamped by Asians.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qyk-F_-IIr0  Pauline Hanson] on ''I Hate You, Change My Mind.''</ref>|||Guess who?}}

Pauline Hanson came to national attention when, as the [[Liberal Party of Australia]]'s candidate for the Queensland seat of Oxley in the 1996 federal election, the most strongly held [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]] seat in Queensland, she advocated the abolition of special government programs to help the Australian Aborigines. She was dropped by the party as the official candidate, but her name remained on the ballot and she won the election with 54.66% of the vote — [[Instant Runoff Voting|after distribution]].<ref>[http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/federal_elections/1996/hor/divisions/gdvs_qld.htm Results by Electoral Division - House of Representatives - Queensland (1996)]</ref>

Unfortunately, as an elected representative of the Australian parliament, she was entitled to give at least one speech on whatever she felt like. Hanson, to the cringing of the parliament, chose immigration and [[multiculturalism]]:

{{quotebox|Of course, I will be called racist but, if I can invite whom I want into my home, then I should have the right to have a say in who comes into my country. A truly multicultural country can never be strong or united. The world is full of failed and tragic examples, ranging from Ireland to Bosnia to Africa and, closer to home, Papua New Guinea. America and Great Britain are currently paying the price...Arthur Calwell said: Japan, India, Burma, Ceylon and every new African nation are [[Anti-racist is a code word for anti-white|fiercely anti-white]] and anti one another. Do we want or need any of these people here?<ref>[http://www.australian-news.com.au/maiden_speech.htm ''Pauline Hanson's maiden speech   in federal parliament''] - Australian News Commentary.</ref>}}

== Leader of One Nation ==

In 1997, she founded the One Nation party. In 1998, an early federal election occurred, and Hanson elected to run for the seat of Blair in Queensland, which she lost with 46.6% of the votes after distribution.<ref>[http://www.aec.gov.au/Elections/federal_elections/1998/hor/divisions/fp_qld.htm Results by Electoral Division - House of Representatives - Queensland (1998)]</ref> 

PM John Howard used Hanson as a canary to see how many votes there are in actively pursuing [[Xenophobia|xenophobic]] policy. Enough to abandon the centre-right, it turns out. This widely-circulated quote captures the essence of his '96 campaign:

{{quotebox|There is [[Silent majority|a frustrated mainstream]] … which sees government decisions increasingly driven by the noisy, self-interested clamour of powerful vested interests … the mainstream feel utterly powerless to compete with such groups … Under us, the views of all particular interests will be assessed against the national interest and the sentiments of mainstream Australia.}}

Staring down an election defeat in 2001, Howard milked white resentment towards immigrants and Aboriginal people; he is the one who politicised the ''{{wpl|Tampa affair|Tampa}}'' and offshore detention camps.<ref>Seccombe, Mike, [https://www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/news/politics/2016/07/23/how-pauline-hanson-changes-politics-through-fear/14691960003528 "How Pauline Hanson changes politics through fear"], ''Saturday Paper'' 7.23.16.</ref>  The Libs preferred not to have a politician to the right of them siphoning off votes, so Howard had her locked up for electoral fraud.<ref>Thomson, Simon, [http://www.businessinsider.com.au/everything-you-should-know-about-pauline-hanson-the-queensland-senator-whose-re-election-has-shaken-politics-2016-7 "Everything you should know about Pauline Hanson, the Queensland senator whose re-election has shaken politics"], ''Business Insider'' (7/5/16 at 7:00 AM).</ref>

Since then, Hanson has run in almost every available election at state and federal level, each time [[Perennial candidate|failing to win a seat.]]

=== The hair dye is cast ===

{{cquote|Only [[Silent majority|1.29 per cent]] of Australians gave their first preference to Pauline Hanson’s One Nation... Why, then, are some on my side of politics prone to cuddling up to Hansonite rhetoric? Those propositions and policies will only hurt the coalition parties in the long run, in the same way that the once great [[Australian Labor Party|Labor Party]] is now the captive of the Greens...|||Russell Broadbent, Liberal MP<ref>Broadbent, [http://www.russellbroadbent.com.au/2016/11/08/australian-values-house-of-representatives-november-7th-2016/ Australian values – House of Representatives], 11.7.16.</ref>}}

Queensland is a cesspit of corruption. Prior to '89, they had thirty-two [[Gerrymandering|uninterrupted years]] of [[National Party of Australia|National Party]] rule. Voters have tended to favor Labor since the {{wpl|Fitzgerald Inquiry}}, but corruption continues to flourish. They lose out on a lot of business due to ubiquitous graft in the area, and North Queensland is in the middle of a recession (youth unemployment is even worse). Belonging to the dominant race is a source of status security for white Australians. But, of course, minorities are refusing to know their place, and now that's melting away as well. They're desperate for an alternative. 

In 2016, Hanson contested the Senate seat in Queensland, this time with an [[Islamophobia|Islamophobic]] focus−and won.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/03/australias-double-dissolution-election-backfires-badly-with-likely-senate-makeup Pauline Hanson elected to Senate as Turnbull's double-dissolution gamble backfires]</ref> In what ways do people see their lives being negatively affected by this? Hard to say, other than some [[Manufactroversy|vague conspiracy hand-waving]] about a couple of mosques<ref>Smethurst, Annika, [http://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/pauline-hanson-to-push-for-ban-on-new-mosques-royal-commission-into-islam/news-story/1fde2f7903942cad6387d93fc210d0dd "Pauline Hanson to push for ban on new mosques, royal commission into Islam"], ''Herard-Sun'' (4/4/16 at 11:09pm).</ref> and a Halal Snack Pack<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/national/federal-election/pauline-hanson-loses-it-over-halal-snack-packs/news-story/a52ed6c717833bdc81c14839e5de9518 "Pauline Hanson loses it over halal snack packs"], ABC (7/3/16 at 11:05am).</ref> somehow leading to nationwide [[Sharia]] law.  It's basically an updated version of Hanson's [[Secure the border|anti-immigrant]] schtick from the 1990's but with Boat People instead of Swamp Asians.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8515977.stm Australia race politician Pauline Hanson moving to UK]</ref> Later that year, Hanson made national news after expressing outrage at the implementation of squat toilets in some businesses, claiming that it was indicative of an immigrant takeover of Australian culture.

It's the Liberal's conundrum: They will lose a lot of middle Australia if they go too far right, but at the same time, a lot of conservatives (the same ones who think Pauline is the Dame Judi Dench of Australia) hate [[Malcolm Turnbull|Turnbull]] for reaching out to [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]], especially since he deposed [[Tony Abbott|Abbott]].<ref>Remeikis, Amy, [http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pauline-hanson-tells-malcolm-turnbull-to-bring-tony-abbott-back-20170117-gtta24.html "Pauline Hanson tells Malcolm Turnbull to 'bring Tony Abbott back'"], SMH (1/17/17 at 6:44PM).</ref>  They will vote for One Nation, [[Rise Up Australia Party|Rise Up]], or the Australian Liberty Alliance.

==== The pivot ====

*The Greens and One Nation have at least one thing in common: opposition to a same-sex marriage plebiscite.<ref>Anderson, Stephanie, [http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-29/entsch-accuses-shorten-of-playing-politics-with-gay-marriage/7793294 "Same-sex marriage: Warren Entsch 'profoundly disappointed' by Labor's opposition to plebiscite"], ABC (Updated 8/28/16 at 4:09pm).</ref> 
*Hanson has called for [[Julian Assange]]'s release, comparing him to the 
cop-killer
 "folk hero" Ned Kelly in a letter to the Prime Minister.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-29/pauline-hanson-compares-plight-of-assange-to-ned-kelly/8076808 "Pauline Hanson compares Julian Assange to 'folk hero' Ned Kelly in letter to Prime Minister calling for his release"], ABC (Updated 11/29/16 at 1:49am).</ref> Kelly planned to start his own nation. (Just the one.)
*Let's build that fiber-to-the-home internet.... so Muslims will get their eviction notices at lightspeed!<ref>Reilly, Claire, [https://www.cnet.com/au/news/pauline-hansons-nbn-will-help-you-pwn-n00bs/ "Pauline Hanson's NBN will help you pwn n00bs"], CNet (10/14/16 at 4:37 pm EDT). ''I don't like it...when the server kick me out ♪ I don't like it...when those noobs no-scope about ♪'' </ref>  It reads like satire, but Hanson is genuinely angry that Muslims have better internet.<br>
:As a committee chair at NBN Co.,<ref>Duckett, Chris, [http://www.zdnet.com/article/pauline-hanson-receives-seat-on-nbn-committee/ "Pauline Hanson receives seat on NBN committee"], ZDNet (10/11/16 at 11:43pm GMT).</ref> her position seems to line up with Malcolm Turnbull's plan:<ref>Hanson, [http://statuscope.co/au/I-spent-the-weekend-on-the-Sunshine-Coast-meeting-with?id=96eb222f Facebook Status] (5/29/2016 at 7:14 PM).</ref> run it into ground, sell the "lame duck" to Telstra Corporation, kill any guarantee of rural broadband being on par with city broadband (the exact same, short-sighted thinking which started this mess [[Liberal_Party_of_Australia#National_Broadband_Network|in the first place]]), and let the free marketeers do whatever they want. Now we know what her price was for shafting the firefighters' union.<ref>Koziol, Michael, [http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pauline-hanson-to-gift-turnbull-government-a-key-win-on-firefighter-union-laws-20161009-gryggf.html "Pauline Hanson to gift Turnbull government a key win on firefighter union laws"], SMH 10.10.16.</ref>
*Time to embarrass the government some more.  They (like many others) are correct that Turnbull's [[Malcolm_Turnbull#Robo-Debt|"debt recovery system"]] is a piece of shit nuisance which treats hundreds of thousands of its citizens as criminals.<ref>Hunter, Fergus, [http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/one-nation-brands-centrelink-robodebt-recovery-malicious-and-criminal-20170118-gttvnp.html "One Nation brands Centrelink robo-debt recovery 'malicious' and 'criminal'"], SMH (1/18/17 at 4:26PM ).</ref> This will improve their vote in a big way, no doubt at the expense of the LNP, who are currently polling at 46%.

==== Typical eggheads! ====

She went snorkeling in Great Keppell to get evidence that the Great Barrier Reef is healthy — albeit in the part of the reef which [[Cherrypicking|supports]] her party position.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/technology/environment/climate-change/pauline-hanson-goes-snorkelling-in-wrong-spot-to-prove-untruths-on-the-great-barrier-reef/news-story/6ad038f83d330e8ba2fa10d988f4e529 "Pauline Hanson goes snorkelling in wrong spot to prove ‘untruths’ on the Great Barrier Reef"], news.au (11/25/16 at 6:25pm).</ref> (Work-related expense!)

==Shit Pauline says==

Do you want to crash the site? Because that's how you crash it. So far we got:

{{quotebox|The hard fact is at the end of the day someone’s got to pay the price for [gay marriage], people have to understand [[Appeal to tradition|what happened in the past]] to discover this land, the diggers that fought for us.<ref>Lallo, Michael, [http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/think-of-the-children-hansons-gay-marriage-radio-plea-20130307-2fnca.html "'Think of the children': Hanson's gay marriage radio plea"], SMH 3.7.13.</ref>}}

{{quotebox|We haven't done the research enough, what is causing these kids to have autism, what is having all the cancer in our community, have we had enough answers into the cancer?<ref>Reid, James, [http://thenewdaily.com.au/news/election-2016/2016/07/06/vaccines-may-cause-autism-hanson/ "Hanson backs anti-vaxers"], ''New Daily'' (Updated 7/7/16 at 1:32pm).</ref>}}

{{quotebox|Halal is being forced on us by 2% of the population.<ref>[http://www.onenation.com.au/hot-topics/a-special-message-from-pauline-hanson A Special Message by Pauline Hanson]</ref>}}

==My shopping trolley, murdered!==
{{main|Streisand effect}}

Hanson has been parodied as the drag queen alter ego of satirist Simon Hunt - the wonderfully named {{wpl|Pauline Pantsdown}}. Hardly surprisingly, Hanson was not as amused as the rest of us, condemning one of Mr. Hunt's songs as portraying her as a transsexual and prostitute. Australia probably agreed in the best possible way, and several of Mr. Hunt's tunes become both cult and mainstream hits.

==One of us==

In 2003, Hanson, who is an advocate of tougher sentencing for criminals, was convicted of electoral fraud and sentenced to three years in prison, though only she served eleven weeks.<ref>Kingston, Margot, [http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/06/1068013326660.html "I just want to say that I've learnt from it"], SMH 11.6.03.</ref>

In 2010, Ms. Hanson decided to migrate to [[England]] because Australia had too many immigrants. After a short period in [[London]], she decided to return to Australia because England [[Irony meter|had too many immigrants]].  At least she can take solace in the fact that now England has one fewer immigrant.<ref name="uk" />

In 2016, Pauline claimed that men are the ''[[Rape apology|real]]'' victims of Australia's domestic violence scourge, and many women make "frivolous" abuse claims over simple things (like criticism of their clothes).<ref>Moody, Sherele, [http://www.sunshinecoastdaily.com.au/news/pauline-hanson-claims-women-make-frivolous-dv-comp/3043038/ "Pauline Hanson claims women make frivolous DV complaints"], Sunshine Coast Daily (6/10/16 at 4:20pm, updated 1/11/16 at 6:00am)</ref>

During the latter half of 2016, Parliament was hung up on [[Malcolm_Turnbull#Backpacker_tax|a piddling tax on the segment of the population who have no advocates]] (guest workers).  The "backpacker" tax specifically targeted them but hit a wall once everyone realized the tax would affect white farmers, too.<ref>Karp, Paul, [https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/dec/02/hanson-so-angry-as-backpacker-tax-fallout-exposes-one-nation-tensions "Hanson 'so angry' as backpacker tax fallout exposes One Nation tensions"], ''Guardian'' (Last modified 12/18/16 at 10:00 PM EST).</ref> If the supermarket chains hadn't screwed the farmers' balls to the wall and forced them to reduce their wholesale prices, they could afford to hire Australian workers for a better wage. (How is it a "big win for tourism" when the old tax rate was an incentive for rich holiday-makers to come there and buy produce?)<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SBEDIYiSkU "Pauline Hanson negotiates 15% Backpacker Tax - Big Win for Tourism"].</ref><ref>Ironside, Robin, [http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/backpackers-already-turning-off-australia-as-tax-hike-looms/news-story/37d20eb6936d840b5bd88fcac9a80b99 "Backpackers already turning off Australia as tax hike looms"], news.au (1/1/16 at 9:36am).</ref> Hanson almost screwed over a big portion of her voter base. Great work, dumbass.

==Stopped clock==

Pauline Hanson, out of all people, called out [[Fraser Anning]] for his utterly Islamophobic comment about the [[Christchurch terrorist attacks]] by claiming it was "straight out of Goebbels's handbook."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/15/fraser-anning-speech-straight-from-goebbels-handbook-says-pauline-hanson|title=Fraser Anning speech 'straight from Goebbels' handbook', says Pauline Hanson|publisher=''The Guardian Australia''|date=15 August 2018|access-date=15 August 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815024829/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/aug/15/fraser-anning-speech-straight-from-goebbels-handbook-says-pauline-hanson|archive-date=2018-08-15|dead-url=no|df=}}</ref>

Pauline Hanson also voted down the Coalition’s union-busting legislation (the Ensuring Integrity Bill).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-s-union-busting-bill-defeated-in-the-senate-20191128-p53ezo.html|title='Thought they had it in the bag': Government's union-busting bill defeated in Senate|publisher=''The Sydney Morning Herald''||date=28 November 2019||access-date=10 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200305050212/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/government-s-union-busting-bill-defeated-in-the-senate-20191128-p53ezo.html}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Britain is full]]

==External links==

*[https://www.facebook.com/PeterDrewArts/posts/10153009998217730:0 Dey tuk err jerb.]
*[http://www.news.com.au/national/dna-test-shows-hansons-middle-eastern-heritage/story-e6frfkp9-1111112976024 DNA test shows Hanson's Middle Eastern heritage.]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SxFc37h6js Pauline Pantsdown - "I Don't Like It"] on [[YouTube]]

==Notes==

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