Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is a political party whose time appears to be coming to an end in NSW
on appeal and freed later the same year. In the years she was gone, One Nation became just another name in a crowded field of micro-parties. One Nation’s re-emergence as a political force was entirely due to her re-joining and putting her name up in lights again. She won a Senate seat in 2016.
Since 1998, 36 men and women have been elected to state and federal parliaments under her banner. Five have been disqualified, 19 resigned and either joined other parties or had short careers as independents. Without Hanson’s patronage, few managed re-election. However, Latham, her stellar recruit, did get re-elected. The one-time federal Labor leader had been languishing in anonymity after beingfor indulging in untoward attacks on women when he lit on Hanson and she welcomed him with open arms. He won a NSW upper house seat in 2019. But his convoluted plan to increase the One Nation vote in this year’s state election blew up in his face and, instead, fortuitously extended his upper house term. Hanson was not amused.
Australian politics has changed much since Hanson walked on to the national stage but a faithful coterie will always support her policies and ideology. This year, Hanson has been cranking up outrage over the Voice referendum, while Latham specialised in homophobic slurs. Their dummy spits must surely mark the beginning of the end for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation in NSW. She is now 69 and has five years left in the Senate. At 62, Latham is likely to have the last laugh. He can hang around the NSW upper house for another eight years.
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