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The One Nation Series P2: How Pauline Hanson Changed Australia Without Winning

30 min · 27 de abr de 2026
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If you value independent journalism, support this show: https://bit.ly/4rqn9wF Pauline Hanson is often framed as a political outsider. But what if her real impact wasn’t electoral success, it was shifting the boundaries of what mainstream politics could say and do? In this episode, we trace how One Nation reshaped Australian political rhetoric from the late 1990s onward, and how both major parties absorbed elements of Hanson’s agenda. Rather than being pushed out of relevance, Hanson helped normalise positions on migration, national identity and security that later became standard across the political spectrum. We look at how John Howard strategically captured One Nation voters, how the Tampa crisis marked a turning point in asylum policy, and why Hanson’s prosecution and imprisonment strengthened her political narrative instead of ending it. The episode also explores the role of commercial media in keeping her visible during her so-called “wilderness years,” and how that visibility helped enable her return to the Senate in 2016.

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