Hanson, Howard and the exhaustion of politics.(Editorial)

Arena Magazine | February 1, 2006 | Copyright

This September will mark ten years since Pauline Hanson took her seat in Federal Parliament to deliver the speech that would extend her fifteen minutes of fame as a dis-endorsed Liberal Party candidate to a political movement. At the time, it wasn't clear what impact Hanson would have, or what legacy she would leave. Many political commentators regarded the party as an expression of political atavism, the last screaming gasp of a style of politics that would be lucky to see the turn of the millennium.

And sure enough, lacking anything resembling party discipline or ...

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