If you were to “do a Pauline” where would you go?The media went gaga this week with news that former One Nation leader Pauline Hanson plans pack her bags and migrate to Great Britain. But if the Crikey team had to flee overseas, what country would they pick?
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Why we still haven’t moved on from Pauline Hanson politics
Climate change has become the new immigration in Australian politics. Tony Abbott isn’t really a climate sceptic, he’s just using the climate change scepticism to his own political advantage.
The Media Monitors' Top 20: The popular redhead is back
Three different leaders in the three traditional media, Peter Garrett way ahead on radio, Tony Abbott’s sluggos still more palatable for telly while Kevin Rudd is left with that boring one with all the words and the occasional complex issue and stuff. Plus, Pauline is back!
The whingeing bogan becomes a whingeing Pom
Does Pauline Hanson know there are lots of immigrants in England? She may be leaving the country, but her political legacy of discrimination and hate in mainstream Aussie politics remains, writes Irfan Yusuf.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Hanson off to party with the English right-wingers?
I’d like to bet that Pauline Hanson is off to live in England at the personal invitation of this new far right-wing party, says one Crikey tipster. Plus, the hacking of the government’s APH system.
Did Abbott kick Pauline Hanson out of the country?
The Aussie political blogs are a flutter over Pauline Hanson’s plans to emigrate to England. Did Tony Abbott’s personal crusade against her help to push her over to the motherland? Was she really a super threat to Aussie politics?
Great myths in Australian politics: GST almost cost Howard ’98 election
The GST didn’t nearly lose John Howard the election in 1998, instead it’s the only reason he stayed in office. Just check out the Newspoll ratings before the GST announcement, says Stephen Spencer.
Mayne: Women directors not up to the job, says Chaney
It’s time to shame Australia’s corporate boardrooms into action on female representation: there is now a need for legislation, regulation and direct action.
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?
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.
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.
