Thirty years ago, when I watched Pauline Hanson deliver her first speech 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 Farrer byelection presages potentially far broader electoral wins.
