Abstract
The title of this chapter comes from David Marr’s ongoing interest in Pauline Hanson : an interest I share, having watched her rise in 1996, contemplated what happened to her during her years in the political wilderness , and watched her successful return to politics in 2016. More broadly, the idea of looking at Hanson and Hansonism through the prisms of policy or, alternatively, protest is interesting. It changes how one thinks about her, her Party, its minor electoral successes, and its major electoral failures. Examining Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party (PHONP) as a party of policy focuses our attention upon its impact on the legislative agenda, in both 1996 and 2016. Alternatively, in considering PHONP as a party of protest, its positions are stripped of the pretense of seeking change and instead become mere rhetoric.
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All voting data is for primary votes in the House of Representatives
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Queensland voting data is primary votes.
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In 2004 the Howard Government passed the Marriage Amendment Act (2004) of the Marriage Act 1961. Subsection 5(1) was included stating “marriage means the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others, voluntarily entered into for life” (Australian Government 2004).
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The author would like to thank Bligh Grant, Angelika Heurich, Greg Melleuish, and Alan Scott for their comments on earlier drafts of this chapter. I fully acknowledge that this Chapter title comes from David Marr and his insightful Quarterly Essay (2017a) titled “The white queen: One Nation and the politics of race”, 65, 1–102. The observations in this chapter are informed by a long-standing interest in Hanson and Hansonism. See Coghlan (1999). Pauline Hanson and Paul Keating: A postmodern analysis. Unpublished Honours thesis, University of Wollongong.
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Coghlan, J. (2019). Rebranded Pauline Hanson: A Party of Policy or Protest?. In: Grant, B., Moore, T., Lynch, T. (eds) The Rise of Right-Populism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2670-7_9
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