Pauline Hanson’s years in the wilderness, via the Crikey archives

Earliest analysis to appear cricket The incident involving Pauline Hanson came after the party won three seats in Western Australia’s upper house in the 2001 state election and maintained the balance of power with the Greens.

Responding to Hanson’s reputation as a “lightning rod for protest”, Christian Kerr, then still writing under the name Hillary Bray, concluded that this would not last:

“When lightning strikes, millions of volts are dispersed, but this has no beneficial effect.