There is no end to the negative headlines generated by Pauline Hanson in response to comments she made on her trip abroad – and it has forced One Nation members, including Barnaby Joyce, back home to defend and explain their actions. Guardian Australia political reporter, josh butlertalks to Reged Ahmed About how the many travel
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
Pauline Hanson’s dominance of Australian politics was underlined this week with her maiden address to the National Press Club. In a lengthy speech, the right-wing party leader lashed out against multiculturalism and Islam in particular, promised to reduce public broadcasting and claimed the so-called ‘hoax’ of global warming was the driving factor behind poverty in