For the first time in her 30-year political career, Pauline Hanson led the National Press Club this week. It was a bombastic address, and a combative question-and-answer session with reporters – in which Hanson attacked multiculturalism, the climate crisis, transgender rights, Indigenous policy, paid parental leave, and the two public broadcasters.
Longtime journalist Margo Kingston knows Hanson better than most – she has covered the One Nation leader since he first rose to prominence in 1996, and also wrote a book about his 1998 election campaign. Kingston spoke to Guardian Australia’s political editor, Tom McIlroyWhy she thinks Hanson’s inflammatory speech is the start of her federal campaign
