Pauline Hanson


Climate change: the Coalition’s new Hansonism

There’s a number of similarities between Howard-era Hansonism and climate denialism, but the biggest similarity is that both mean big trouble for the Coalition.

Chairman of Australian Press Council calls for accountability

Ken McKinnon, the departing boss of the Press Council, is criticising the media for failing to live up to its own rhetoric on ethics, privacy and independence. Namely, the Utegate scandal and fake Pauline Hanson nude photos.

Please explain: Barnaby Joyce, the new Pauline Hanson?

A former Pauline Hanson adviser, John Pasquarelli, laments Australia’s ‘forgotten people’. No, not Indigenous Australians, but rather mainstream Australians, getting overrun by gangs and immigrants. Can a Barnaby Joyce-type be their new leader?

One Nation is dying

At the Bob Santamaria Hospice for the Terminally Ignored

Crikey Says: Can’t we just turn them off?

As we have seen again this week in the troubled world of professional attention seeker Kyle Sandilands, media regulation in this country packs all the punch of a wilted shard of rocket.

Guy Rundle: Are Bill Heffernan and Bob Brown the same person?

The screw-up of the environment has got so bad that it’s vomiting back on the people who depend on it. What should the National Party do?

Tele’s Hanson apology laughable

Considering the extent of the defamation against Pauline Hanson by the Sunday Telegraph, the apology published by the Sydney tabloid on the weekend seems almost laughable.

News Corp’s “newspaper revolution” marketing ploy

The News Ltd Sunday tabloids were tarting a “newspaper revolution” last weekend that had a far more crass motive: cross-promoting a movie from the Fox film studios.

Tele prints more dubious celebrity nudes

The Daily Telegraph has done another Pauline and published more dubious nude photographs of American starlet Rihanna on their website.

Fawcett to sue Tele over those ‘Hanson’ pics

It seems the notorious Pauline Hanson fake nude photos saga is headed for a delicious postscript.

The Liberal Party’s long history of playing the race card

Despite Joe Hockey’s indignant posturing over the weekend, the fact is that the Liberal Party has used race over the past two decades for its own political advantage, writes Greg Barns.

Video of the Day: Red Symons presents: Hanson’s Last Harrumph

Hanson photo affair undermines the right to know

The editors of the tabloids that ran the ‘Hanson’ photographs knew exactly why they were publishing these pics and I am certain the reason had nothing to do with serving the public interest, writes Michael Gawenda.

Hanson photos: paparazzo was the deal maker

At the centre of News Ltd’s Pauline Hanson photo scandal is the Sydney paparazzo Jamie Fawcett, writes Alex Mitchell.

Trashing Pauline Hanson was a class act

If sexism remains one of the great unmentionables in Australian politics, class is even more so, writes Jeff Sparrow.

Hanson: Media Watch ‘dangerous’, Press Council waits

Last night’s Media Watch program suggested John Hartigan’s campaign against proposed privacy legislation had been undermined by the publication of the nude “Pauline Hanson” photos, writes Margaret Simons.

Pauline Hanson: it was not me. I’m suing

I’ve had enough. The truth is that is not me in those photos.” Pauline Hanson insists that the celebrated weekend nudes were not her, writes Jonathan Green.

Underbellly – what didn’t really happen…

It is the mid 1970’s…

Pauline Hanson and me: a fake story

Okay, time for a confession, writes Jonathan Green.

Media Monitors’ Top 20

Does all this attention for Pauline help the incumbent? Asks Patrick Baume.

How do you spell Beaudesert — “yeah that’s hard”!

Beaudesert can be forgiven for thinking “why us” as it faces not just the prospect of a resurrected Pauline show, but the late entry of another non-Mensa endorsed aspirant, writes Ross Stapleton.

Left and lefter: Keane v Sparrow on political racism

There’s a lazy snobbery reflected in the assertion that our major political parties are casually racist, writes Bernard Keane.

How we might lend an ear — again — to Pauline Hanson

There’s something of Mike Tyson in Pauline Hanson’s return: battered and past her prime, she’s drawn inevitably back to what she knows best, writes Jeff Sparrow.

QLD seat of Beaudesert: Pauline or the yoof?

The LNP has handed what should be a reasonably safe seat to a local youth whose main claim to fame is invading the stage of the 2005 final episode of Big Brother to publicise his band, writes Bernard Keane.

Are we about to see a Pauline revival?

The release of Senate preference tickets has revived speculation that our very own Pauline Hanson might be about to revive her own political career. So is the spectre of Queensland’s past returning to haunt the nation? Probably not, writes Mark Bahnisch.