‘Please explain’ Pauline Hanson and One Nation’s longevity

In addition to Labour’s victory, the 2025 elections doubled the Senate seats and a surprise victory to a nation that doubled and increased its share in the national vote to 6.2%. Senator Pauline Hanson Coalition Policy Fence Sitting for the revival of his party. However, the contributing factors are also an anti-organization politician who rises globally, the rise of right-wing populism, Hanson’s effective use of alternative media, and the permanent brand-who loves or hates it.
Social media algorithms had not yet broken democratic processes in 2016, and 18 years later, the newly elected Hanson to the Senate in the political wild nature was supported with Champagne with Champagne outside the parliament. Donald Trump’s US presidential shock. Experts, who dismissed Hanson as an out -of -touch bigot and ignored the seventh federal “fed up” campaign, took him as Australia Trump. Trump insisted on “like me” and established a bridge.
Hanson had a meaning. Since 1997, a nation has confused racist and nationalist chapters to attract rural and working class voters angry with the influence of globalization, neoliberalism and “political righteousness” on traditional works and values. As “folk policy, Hanson was fighting the big parties on behalf of Underdog fighters long before he left Trump’s Washington Bataklık.
Like Trump, Hanson constantly arms his rejection according to the status quo to attract more followers. He uses online platforms directly to reach his people, imprisoned by Legacy Media as a racist demagogue.
In 1998, One Nation was the first Australian party to have a website that built a faithful digital army, which was still active today. Hanson’s Far North Queensland’s “forgotten people” playful, hot youtube interactions An important tool for One Nation’s 2016 campaign.
For the 2025 elections, the party tickled its politics of its entertainment strategy Southern park-Stile animationssatirical slapping decreases of bird-marshal wind turbines, hysterically non-drooping pales and bad greens Edgelords, 100,000-485,000 views per clip-were punished by AEC for someone else Encouraging false election claims.
A nation “Politics” II. After World War II, Anathema for the expertise -based journalism project. However, more voters are here to stay here in the commercialized 7/24 information economy, which has reached more media than professional news channels.

Trump won the 2016 presidency in the first “social media elections ve and that people vote Emotions rather than facts. Unlike the transformed competitors, the apprentice star was not filtering, reliable by the audience, because they recognized their hosts like the famous drunk uncle. Similarly, the victory of Hanson dated 2016 and the ongoing political deduction, A cupboard in every family Hanson.
Since Trump and Hanson Gate polluted the wedding, a nation and Maga’s hate speech on the left of a nation and Maga have been normalized. In 2025, the coalition directed a country with a minimum return. Without any legal sanction against non -real political advertisements in most Australian states, fake news, astroturfing and video lies developed Facebook, Instagram and Tiktokto spread to social media in real time.
Once a country’s destructive digital communication tactics can now be the main current, but have the party changed? Hanson claims that a nation is not extremely right but “Centralist”. As the global political discourses shake harshly, it seems almost reasonable. The 2025 policy of a nation exhibits the same unusual mixture of Ultra Conservative and Old School labor values, which have described Hanson against the anti-identity of the anti-identity. Hymen Speech in 1996.
A nation supports increasing medicare discounts, medical marijuana, multinational taxes, foreign land ownership prohibitions and sustainable water, forestry and agricultural practices. At the same time, an aggressive way, pro-mining, anti-climate science and Trump’s project from 2025 to 2025-right health, domestic and environmental programs with a setting of $ 90 billion intends to cut. The party wants Australia from the United Nations, World Health Organization and Paris Climate Agreement, label C02 targets “Economic suicide”.
In Australia’s “Post -Major Party”, the new normally, when the policy of a nation is combined with Smorgasbord’s long life and social media social assistance with Hanson’s long life and social media social assistance, it is reluctant to support the Patriotism of Greater or Clive Palmer’s Patriotism. However, the globalization of democracy is also a factor. As the inequality of wealth increases under authoritarian leaders, voters are gradually going to the eaves. Civil insecurity ensures the development of shaded “world order” conspiracies: in the lower-right version we are controlled by a hidden global state; On the left, immoral companies will be accused.
While taking Hanson’s 2016 election campaign, I was impressed by how often conservatives and progressives accepted about Australia’s problems, but I didn’t agree with the solutions. Some viewers Canceled my movie – Pauline Hanson: Please explain! – Because they found that Hanson was “triggered”. However, censoring others from the security of our digital silos does not solve anything. If the Australians will meet the difficulties of our complex, multicultural democracy, we must reject the reducing algorithms of social media and participate in nuances, respectful, face -to -face discussions.
How should Australian voters interact with Pauline Hanson?
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