She wasn’t slick, but Hanson’s formidable Press Club performance proved her enemies wrong
The One Nation juggernaut may not have peaked yet.One Nation leader Pauline Hanson made some bold claims at the Press Club. Not all of them stacked up.Getty ImagesShe wasn’t slick, she constantly contradicted herself and mangled her words. But, under the spotlight and on national television, she never lost her cool.AdvertisementShe was the same Pauline Hanson that Australians first came to know 30 years ago, but a touch more worldly and, in some ways, more sophisticated.
- ▪The One Nation juggernaut may not have peaked yet.One Nation leader Pauline Hanson made some bold claims at the Press Club.
- ▪Not all of them stacked up.Getty ImagesShe wasn’t slick, she constantly contradicted herself and mangled her words.
- ▪But, under the spotlight and on national television, she never lost her cool.AdvertisementShe was the same Pauline Hanson that Australians first came to know 30 years ago, but a touch more worldly and, in some ways, more sophisticated.
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