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Ordinary Australians are shunning big political parties, who they feel don't understand them, and are looking to alternatives like Pauline Hanson. As US historian Thomas Frank says, we're starting to sound just like Americans did at the last presidential election.
Topics: community-and-society, pauline-hanson, donald-trump, world-politics, government-and-politics, religion-and-beliefs, tuggerah-2259
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| UpdatedOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson and new Queensland recruit Steve Dickson are interrupted during a media conference at a Sunshine Coast shopping centre and told to leave the "private property".
Topics: government-and-politics, states-and-territories, one-nation, liberal-national-party-queensland, pauline-hanson, nambour-4560
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| UpdatedAttorney-General George Brandis accuses Labor senator Penny Wong of having an "unhealthy obsession" with Pauline Hanson after she launched a fiery attack on One Nation.
Topics: one-nation, government-and-politics, political-parties, pauline-hanson, wa, australia
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson's One Nation party secures its fourth LNP defector in Queensland, with former Logan MP Michael Pucci joining as state campaign director.
Topics: one-nation, liberal-national-party-queensland, pauline-hanson, logan-central-4114, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedIn the wake of three Queensland One Nation candidates withdrawing or being sacked in two months, Pauline Hanson says she is working to ensure the party does not fracture again and is warning she will not allow rogue candidates to "destroy" her political plans.
Topics: one-nation, pauline-hanson, political-parties, government-and-politics, state-parliament, federal-government, qld, australia
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| UpdatedSupport for Pauline Hanson's One Nation party is growing across the country — but who are her supporters and what do voters think they're buying from her?
Topics: one-nation, political-parties, pauline-hanson, qld, wa, australia
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The One Nation leader hits back at fresh criticism from dumped candidate Peter Rogers that she is controlled by James Ashby.
Topics: pauline-hanson, one-nation, political-parties, qld, australia
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| UpdatedA former One Nation candidate who was dumped last night over a controversial blog post he denies writing says Pauline Hanson could face a revolt if she keeps "jumping the gun" and sacking people.
Topics: one-nation, pauline-hanson, states-and-territories, government-and-politics, qld
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| UpdatedA Chinese-Australian man running for Pauline Hanson's One Nation in the West Australian election defends the party leader's comments, saying her "views are not reflective of what they are today".
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, pauline-hanson, one-nation, wa, australia
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| UpdatedPauline Hanson concedes it will be tough to keep her planned field of 60 One Nation candidates on message during the WA election campaign, but says it will be up to voters to make their own decision at the polling booth.
Topics: one-nation, elections, states-and-territories, pauline-hanson, bunbury-6230, perth-6000, wa
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Pauline Hanson's call for a national identity card is a policy zombie, and it needs to be eliminated.
Topics: welfare, fraud-and-corporate-crime, pauline-hanson, ethics, australia
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| UpdatedOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson is yet to decide whether to accept the resignation of a Queensland candidate whose blog contained a post claiming the death of a Syrian refugee, along with Tasmania's Port Arthur massacre, were fabricated.
Topics: one-nation, political-parties, government-and-politics, pauline-hanson, social-media, qld
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One Nation Party veteran Colin Tincknell says preferences will be decided on a seat-by-seat basis.
Topics: pauline-hanson, one-nation, elections, state-parliament, kalgoorlie-6430, perth-6000
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| UpdatedTopics: state-parliament, pauline-hanson, elections, perth-6000, kalgoorlie-6430
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| UpdatedQueensland Labor calls on the LNP to announce if it will preference One Nation after another candidate reportedly made offensive comments about the LGBTI community.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, one-nation, liberal-national-party-queensland, alp, pauline-hanson, sunshine-beach-4567, qld, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedIpswich City Council pulls funding from a World Harmony Day event organised by former One Nation candidate Shan Ju Lin, who was dumped by the party over anti-gay comments.
Topics: political-parties, government-and-politics, pauline-hanson, one-nation, local-government, ipswich-4305, qld
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| UpdatedOne Nation founder Pauline Hanson is making no apologies for sacking Queensland candidate Shan Ju Lin for her anti-gay comments, saying she will not let people trash her or her party.
Topics: government-and-politics, state-parliament, pauline-hanson, one-nation, political-parties, bundamba-4304, qld, brisbane-4000, ipswich-4305
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Rod Culleton's departure from the One Nation party has caused early comparisons to the demise of the party in Queensland in the late '90s. Former One Nation MPs say Pauline Hanson needs to learn from the mistakes of the past, to prevent a repeat in the future.
Topics: one-nation, political-parties, government-and-politics, pauline-hanson, australia
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| UpdatedOne Nation candidate Shan Ju Lin rejects suggestions party leader Pauline Hanson is racist and says she fears the Chinese Government could "take over" Australia if its influence is not curtailed.
Topics: government-and-politics, parliament, state-parliament, pauline-hanson, political-parties, one-nation, bundamba-4304, qld, sunnybank-4109, sunnybank-hills-4109, brisbane-4000
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| UpdatedOne Nation leader Pauline Hanson vows her party will survive after the resignation of senator Rod Culleton, who claimed he had been subjected to "public rants" and "un-Australian" behaviour by Senator Hanson.
Topics: government-and-politics, political-parties, minor-parties, one-nation, pauline-hanson, federal-government, federal-parliament, courts-and-trials, perth-6000, australia
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Topics: pauline-hanson, person, canberra-2600, parliament-house-2600, act, australia
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| UpdatedIndigenous people share their personal stories of racism on social media, after One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson says there is "no definition" of Aboriginal in an interview on the Bolt Report.
Topics: indigenous-aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander, community-and-society, race-relations, pauline-hanson, social-media, australia
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| UpdatedDonald Trump's shocking victory on the heels of an equally surprising Brexit vote in the UK is rattling the major parties in Australia, and in the Queensland city of Ipswich people could not be happier.
Topics: pauline-hanson, us-elections, foreign-affairs, minor-parties, one-nation, ipswich-4305
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We might assume that in Australia, an idiosyncratic billionaire couldn't win office through bluster, chutzpah and well-targeted populism that struck a chord with discontented voters. And yet we've already had our very own Donald Trump.
Topics: us-elections, federal-parliament, clive-palmer, pauline-hanson, abbott-tony, australia, united-states
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| UpdatedOne Nation Senator Pauline Hanson says the Donald Trump's US presidential victory shows people are fed up with the established political parties.
Topics: us-elections, pauline-hanson, united-states, australia