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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific-prefix    = [[Australian Senate|Senator]]
| name                = Pauline Hanson
| image               = Pauline Hanson 2017 01 (cropped).jpg
| caption             = Hanson in 2017
| office              = [[List of senators from Queensland|Senator]] for [[Queensland]]
| term_start          = 2 July 2016
| term_end            = 
| predecessor         = [[Glenn Lazarus]]
| successor           = 
| office1             = Leader of [[Pauline Hanson's One Nation]]
| term_start1         = 29 November 2014
| term_end1           = 
| predecessor1        = Jim Savage
| successor1          = 
| term_start2         = 11 April 1997
| term_end2           = 27 January 2002
| predecessor2        = Party established
| successor2          = [[John Fischer (politician)|John Fischer]]
| office3             = Leader of [[Pauline's United Australia Party]]
| deputy3             = [[Brian Burston]]
| term_start3         = 24 May 2007
| term_end3           = 31 March 2010
| predecessor3        = Party established
| successor3          = Party dissolved
| office4             = Member of the [[Australian Parliament]]<br>for [[Division of Oxley|Oxley]]
| term_start4         = 2 March 1996
| term_end4           = 3 October 1998
| predecessor4        = [[Les Scott]]
| successor4          = [[Bernie Ripoll]]
| office5             = Councillor of the [[City of Ipswich]]<br>for Division 7
| term_start5         = 3 April 1994
| term_end5           = 22 March 1995
| predecessor5        = [[Paul Pisasale]]
| successor5          = Denise Hanly
| birth_name          = Pauline Lee Seccombe
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|df=y|1954|5|27}}
| birth_place         = [[Woolloongabba]], [[Queensland]], Australia
| death_date          = 
| death_place         = 
| party               = [[Pauline Hanson's One Nation]] (1997–2002, 2013–present)
| otherparty          = [[Independent politicians in Australia|Independent]] (before 1995, 1996–1997, 2010–2013)<br>[[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]] (1995–1996)<br>[[Pauline's United Australia Party]] (2007–2010)
| spouse              = {{marriage|Walter Zagorski|||end=div}}<br>{{marriage|Mark Hanson|1980||end=div}}
| signature           = Pauline Hanson signature.svg
| website             = {{url|onenation.org.au/our-team/pauline-hanson|Party website}}
| module              = {{infobox criminal
| embed              = yes
| conviction_status  = Conviction overturned on appeal (2 months 17 days)
| conviction         = [[Electoral fraud]]
| conviction_penalty = 3 years (2003)}}
| honorific_suffix    =
}}
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'''Pauline Lee Hanson''' ([[née]] '''Seccombe''', formerly '''Zagorski'''; born 27 May 1954) is an Australian politician who is the founder and leader of [[Pauline Hanson's One Nation|One Nation]], a [[right-wing populist]] political party. Hanson has represented [[Queensland]] in the [[Australian Senate]] since the [[2016 Australian federal election|2016 federal election]].

Hanson ran a [[fish and chip shop]] before entering politics in 1994 as a member of [[Ipswich City Council]]. She joined the [[Liberal Party of Australia]] in 1995 and was [[Preselection|preselected]] for the [[Division of Oxley]] in [[Brisbane]] at the [[1996 Australian federal election|1996 federal election]]. She was disendorsed shortly before the election after making contentious comments about [[Aboriginal Australians]], but remained listed as a Liberal on the ballot paper. Hanson won the election and took her seat as an [[Independent politician|independent]], before co-founding One Nation in 1997 and becoming its only MP. She attempted to switch to the [[Division of Blair]] at the [[1998 Australian federal election|1998 federal election]] but was unsuccessful. Nevertheless, her newly formed party experienced a surge in popularity at the [[1998 Queensland state election]], garnering the second-highest number of votes of any party in the state.

After her defeat in 1998, Hanson unsuccessfully contested the [[2001 Australian federal election|2001 election]] as the leader of One Nation but was expelled from the party in 2002. A [[District Court of Queensland|District Court]] jury found Hanson guilty of electoral fraud in 2003, but her convictions were later overturned by three judges on the [[Queensland Court of Appeal]]. She spent 11 weeks in jail prior to the appeal being heard.

Following her release, Hanson ran in several state and federal elections, as the leader of [[Pauline's United Australia Party|Pauline Hanson's United Australia Party]] and as an independent before rejoining One Nation in 2013 and becoming leader again the following year. She was narrowly defeated at the [[2015 Queensland state election]], but was elected to the Senate at the [[2016 Australian federal election|2016 federal election]], along with three other members of the party. She was re-elected at the [[2022 Australian federal election|2022 federal election]].

In 2017 and 2025, she gained media attention for [[Pauline Hanson's burqa incidents|wearing a burqa into the Australian Senate]]. She is currently suspended from the Senate for this act.<ref name="Butler-2025">{{Cite news |last=Butler |first=Josh |date=25 November 2025 |title=Pauline Hanson suspended from Senate over burqa stunt as Mehreen Faruqi says parliament 'drips in racism' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/25/pauline-hanson-suspended-from-senate-over-burqa-stunt-as-mehreen-faruqi-says-parliament-drips-in-racism |access-date=25 November 2025 |work=The Guardian |issn=0261-3077 |archive-date=2 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251202081926/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/25/pauline-hanson-suspended-from-senate-over-burqa-stunt-as-mehreen-faruqi-says-parliament-drips-in-racism |url-status=live}}</ref>

==Early life and career==
Hanson was born Pauline Lee Seccombe on 27 May 1954 in the Brisbane suburb of [[Woolloongabba]]. She was the fifth of seven children (and the youngest daughter) to John Alfred "Jack" Seccombe and Hannorah Alousius Mary "Norah" Seccombe (née Webster).<ref>{{cite web|title=Senators and Members, by Date of Birth |publisher=Parliament of Australia, Parliamentary Library |url=http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parl/38/mpsbyage.htm |access-date=10 March 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100914111342/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/parl/38/mpsbyage.htm |archive-date=14 September 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:handbook%2Fallmps%2FBK6 |title=ParlInfo – Biography for HANSON, Pauline Lee |publisher=Parliament of Australia |access-date=12 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171221133504/http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id:handbook%2Fallmps%2FBK6 |archive-date=21 December 2017}}</ref> She first received schooling at Buranda Girls' School, later attending [[Coorparoo State School]] in [[Coorparoo]] until she ended her education at age 15, shortly before her first marriage and pregnancy.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE4125b.htm |author=Rosemary Francis |title=Hanson, Pauline Lee (1954 – ) |publisher=The Australian Women's Register |date=22 April 2009 |access-date=21 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822190405/http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE4125b.htm |archive-date=22 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hanson |first=Pauline |author-link=Pauline Hanson |date=2007 |title=Untamed & Unashamed |page=34}}</ref>

Jack and Norah Seccombe owned a [[fish and chip shop]] in [[Ipswich, Queensland]], in which Hanson and her siblings worked from a young age, preparing meals and taking orders. At an older age, she assisted her parents with more [[office administration|administrative]] work in [[bookkeeping]] and [[sales ledger]]ing.<ref name="ABC-2004">{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1203646.htm |title=ENOUGH ROPE with Andrew Denton – episode 60: Pauline Hanson (20/09/2004) |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=20 September 2004 |access-date=12 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507210048/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/enoughrope/transcripts/s1203646.htm |archive-date=7 May 2016}}</ref>

Hanson worked at [[Woolworths Supermarkets|Woolworths]] before working in the [[office administration]] of [[History of Bickford's Australia|Taylors Elliotts Ltd]], a subsidiary of [[Drug Houses of Australia]] (now [[Bickford's Australia]]), where she handled [[clerk|clerical]] [[bookkeeping]] and [[secretarial]] work. She left Taylors Elliotts during her first pregnancy.

In 1978, Hanson (then Pauline Zagorski) met Mark Hanson, a tradesman on Queensland's [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]]. They married in 1980 and established a construction business specialising in [[Roofer|roof]] plumbing. Hanson handled the [[office administration|administrative]] components of the company, similar to her work with Taylors Elliotts, while her husband dealt with practical labour. In 1987, the couple divorced and the company was liquidated. She moved back to Ipswich and worked as a barmaid at what was then Booval Bowls Club. Hanson then bought a fish and chip shop with a new business partner Morrie Marsden. They established  Marsden Hanson Pty Ltd and began operations from their recently opened fish and chip shop in [[Silkstone, Queensland|Silkstone]], a suburb of [[Ipswich, Queensland|Ipswich]]. Hanson and Marsden both shared the administrative responsibilities of the company, but Hanson took on additional practical responsibilities, including buying supplies and produce for the shop and preparing the food, which was among many things that contributed to her notoriety during her first political campaign. Over time, Hanson acquired full control of the company, which was sold upon her election to [[Australian Parliament|Parliament]] in 1996.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gould |first1=Joel |title=Hanson back to where it all began at old fish and chip shop |url=http://www.qt.com.au/news/hanson-back-to-where-it-all-began-at-old-shop/2521327 |website=The Queensland Times |access-date=3 July 2016 |date=24 January 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428164328/http://www.qt.com.au/news/hanson-back-to-where-it-all-began-at-old-shop/2521327/ |archive-date=28 April 2016}}</ref>

==Political career==
===Entry into politics===
Hanson's first election to office was in 1994, earning a seat on the [[Ipswich City Council]], on the premise of an opposition to extra funding.<ref>{{cite news |first=Tony |last=Moore |url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-pauline-hanson-20160707-gq13fl.html |title=The rise and fall and rise of Pauline Hanson |work=Brisbane Times |date=7 July 2016 |access-date=21 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813113716/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-of-pauline-hanson-20160707-gq13fl.html |archive-date=13 August 2016}}</ref> She held the seat for 11 months, before being removed in 1995 due to administrative changes.<ref name="Leser-2014" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/9119/all_divs_roadmap_a3.pdf |title=Ipswich City Council - Divisional Boundaries |access-date=24 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160318141005/http://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/9119/all_divs_roadmap_a3.pdf |archive-date=18 March 2016 }}</ref><ref name="The Age-2003a">{{cite web |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/20/1061261206338.html |title=The rise and fall of Pauline Hanson |access-date=22 December 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160727133509/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/20/1061261206338.html |archive-date=27 July 2016 |date=20 August 2003 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/10578/chronological_list_councillors.pdf |title=Councillors Of Ipswich 1860–2005 – Chronological List |access-date=23 April 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303112205/http://www.ipswich.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/10578/chronological_list_councillors.pdf |archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref>

In August 1995,<ref name="The Age-2003a"/> she joined the [[Liberal Party of Australia]] and in 1996 was endorsed as the Liberal candidate for the [[House of Representatives (Australia)|House of Representatives]] seat of [[Division of Oxley|Oxley]], based on Ipswich, for the [[1996 Australian federal election|March 1996 Federal election]]. At the time, the seat was thought of as a Labor stronghold. The Labor incumbent, [[Les Scott]], held it with an almost 15% two-party majority, making it the safest Labor seat in Queensland. Because of this, Hanson was initially dismissed and ignored by the media believing that she had no chance of winning the seat. However, Hanson received widespread media attention when, leading up to the election, she advocated the abolition of special government assistance for [[Aboriginal Australians]], and she was disendorsed by the Liberal Party. Ballot papers had already been printed listing Hanson as the Liberal candidate, and the [[Australian Electoral Commission]] had closed nominations for the seat.<ref>{{cite web|first=Antony|last=Green|author-link=Antony Green|title=What Happens if a Candidate Withdraws from a Contest?|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-20/what-happens-if-a-candidate-withdraws-from-a-contest/9388254|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]]|date=20 March 2018|access-date=28 December 2019|archive-date=18 May 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190518124513/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-20/what-happens-if-a-candidate-withdraws-from-a-contest/9388254|url-status=live}}</ref> As a result, Hanson was still listed as the Liberal candidate when votes were cast, even though Liberal leader [[John Howard]] had declared she would not be allowed to sit with the Liberals if elected.<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-20/liberal-party-dump-charlton-candidate-kevin-baker-over-lewd-web/4900436 Liberal candidate Kevin Baker quits race for Charlton over lewd website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161031180105/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-20/liberal-party-dump-charlton-candidate-kevin-baker-over-lewd-web/4900436 |date=31 October 2016 }}. ABC News, 20 August 2013.</ref> On election night, Hanson took a large lead on the first count and picked up enough [[Australian Democrats|Democrat]] preferences to defeat [[Les Scott|Scott]] on the sixth count. Her victory came amid [[Australian Labor Party|Labor's]] near-meltdown in Queensland which saw it cut down to only two seats in the state. Hanson won 54 percent of the two-candidate preferred vote.  Had she still been running as a Liberal, the 19.3-point swing would have been the largest two-party swing of the election.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1996/1996repsqld.txt |title=Commonwealth Of Australia - Legislative Election Of 2 March 1996 |access-date=26 December 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326074816/http://psephos.adam-carr.net/countries/a/australia/1996/1996repsqld.txt |archive-date=26 March 2012}}</ref>{{Unreliable source?|date=July 2016}} Since Hanson had been disendorsed, she entered parliament as an [[independent politician|independent]].<ref>{{Citation |last= Ward |first= Ian |date=December 1996 |title= Australian Political Chronicle: January–June 1996 |journal= Australian Journal of Politics and History |volume= 42 |issue= 3 |pages=402–408 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8497.1996.tb01372.x}}</ref>

====1996 — maiden speech====
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On 10 September 1996, Hanson gave her [[maiden speech]] to the House of Representatives, which was widely reported in the media. In her opening lines, Hanson said: "I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment that Aboriginals received more benefits than non-Aboriginals". Hanson then asserted that Australia was in danger of being "swamped by Asians", and that these immigrants "have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate". Hanson argued that "mainstream Australians" were instead subject to "a type of reverse racism ... by those who promote political correctness and those who control the various taxpayer funded 'industries' that flourish in our society servicing Aboriginals, multiculturalists and a host of other minority groups". This theme continued with the assertion that "present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals".

Among a series of criticisms of Aboriginal [[land rights]], access to welfare and reconciliation, Hanson criticised the [[Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission]] (ATSIC), saying: "Anyone with a criminal record can, and does, hold a position with ATSIC". There then followed a short series of statements on family breakdown, youth unemployment, international debt, the [[Family Law Act 1975|Family Law Act]], [[child support]], and the privatisation of [[Qantas]] and other national enterprises. The speech also included an attack on [[Immigration to Australia|immigration]] and [[multiculturalism]], a call for the return of high-tariff [[protectionism]], and criticism of [[economic rationalism]].<ref name="Hanson-1996">{{Cite Hansard |jurisdiction=Commonwealth of Australia |title=APPROPRIATION BILL (No. 1) 1996–97 Second Reading |url=http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F1996-09-10%2F0038%22 |house=House of Representatives |date=10 September 1996 |page=3859 |speaker=Pauline Hanson |position=Member for Oxley |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305044341/http://parlinfo.aph.gov.au/parlInfo/search/display/display.w3p;query=Id%3A%22chamber%2Fhansardr%2F1996-09-10%2F0038%22 |archive-date=5 March 2018 }} </ref> Her speech was delivered uninterrupted by her fellow parliamentarians as it was the courtesy given to MPs delivering their maiden speeches.

==== 1997 — establishment of One Nation====
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In February 1997, Hanson, [[David Oldfield (politician)|David Oldfield]] and [[David Ettridge]] founded the Pauline Hanson's One Nation political party.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-10/timeline-rise-of-pauline-hanson-one-nation/7583230 |title=Pauline Hanson: One Nation party's resurgence after 20 years of controversy – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=11 July 2016 |access-date=13 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812160351/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-10/timeline-rise-of-pauline-hanson-one-nation/7583230 |archive-date=12 August 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The almanac of women and minorities in world politics|url=http://archive.org/details/almanacofwomenmi0000mart|publisher=Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press|date=2000|isbn=978-0-8133-6805-4|first=Mart|last=Martin|pages=16}}</ref> Disenchanted rural voters attended her meetings in regional centres across Australia as she consolidated a support base for the new party. An opinion poll in May of that year indicated that the party was attracting the support of 9 per cent of Australian voters and that its popularity was primarily at the expense of the Liberal Party-National Party Coalition's base.<ref name="Ward-1997"/>

Hanson's presence in the suburb of [[Dandenong, Victoria]], to launch her party was met with demonstrations on 7 July 1997, with 3,000–5,000 people rallying outside. A silent vigil and multicultural concert was organised by the [[City of Greater Dandenong|Greater Dandenong City Council]] in response to Hanson's presence, while a demonstration was organised by an anti-racism body. The majority of attendees were of Asian origin, where an open platform attracted leaders of the Vietnamese, Chinese, East Timorese and Sri Lankan communities. Representatives from churches, local community groups, lesbian and gay and socialist organisations also attended and addressed the crowd.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Scalmer |first=Sean |title=Dissent Events: Protest, the Media, and the Political Gimmick in Australia |publisher=University of New South Wales Press |year=2001 |isbn=978-0868406510 |location=Sydney}}</ref>

In its late 1990s incarnation, One Nation called for zero net immigration, an end to multiculturalism and a revival of Australia's Anglo-Celtic cultural tradition which it says has been diminished, the abolition of native title and the [[Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission]] (ATSIC), an end to special Aboriginal funding programs, opposition to Aboriginal reconciliation which the party says will create two nations, and a review of the [[1967 Australian referendum (Aboriginals)|1967 constitutional referendum]] which gave the Commonwealth power to legislate for Aborigines. The party's economic position was to support protectionism and trade retaliation, increased restrictions on foreign capital and the flow of capital overseas, and a general reversal of globalisation's influence on the Australian economy. Domestically, One Nation opposed privatisation, competition policy, and the GST, while proposing a government subsidised people's bank to provide 2 per cent loans to farmers, small business, and manufacturers. On foreign policy, One Nation called for a review of Australia's United Nations membership, a repudiation of Australia's UN treaties, an end to foreign aid and to ban foreigners from owning Australian land.<ref>{{Cite book | title = Paradise Divided: The Changes, the Challenges, the Choices for Australia | year = 2000 | publisher = Allen & Unwin | last1 = Kelly | first1 = Paul | isbn = 1-86508-291-0 |pages = 143–144| location = St Leonards, NSW }}</ref>

===1998 re-election campaign===
In 1999, ''[[The Australian]]'' reported that support for One Nation had fallen from 22% to 5%.<ref>{{cite news | last = Emerson | first = Scott | title = One Nation loses its heartland | page = 6 | work=[[The Australian]] | date = 24 March 1999 }}</ref> One Nation Senate candidate Lenny Spencer blamed the press together with party director David Oldfield for the October 1998 election defeat,<ref>{{Cite news | last = Penberthy | first = David | title = Outcasts asunder | newspaper = [[The Advertiser (Adelaide)|The Advertiser]] | page = 58 | date = 17 October 1998 }}</ref> while the media reported the redirecting of preferences away from One Nation as the primary reason, with a lack of party unity, poor policy choices and an "inability to work with the media" also responsible.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Scott | first = Leisa | title = It's my party and I'll cry if I want to / ONE NATION | work = [[The Australian]] | page = 3 | date = 5 October 1998 }}</ref>

Ahead of the [[1998 Australian federal election|1998 federal election]], an electoral [[Redistribution (Australia)|redistribution]] essentially split Oxley in half. Oxley was reconfigured as a marginal Labor seat, losing most of its more rural and exurban area while picking up the heavily pro-Labor suburb of [[Inala, Queensland|Inala]]. A new seat of [[Division of Blair|Blair]] was created in the rural area surrounding Ipswich.<ref name="Crikey-2017">[https://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/fed2016/blair/ Poll Bludger review of Blair] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020033929/https://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/fed2016/blair/ |date=20 October 2017 }} for 2016 federal election</ref> Hanson knew her chances of holding the reconfigured Oxley were slim, especially after former Labor state premier [[Wayne Goss]] won preselection for the seat.<ref>[[Antony Green|Green, Antony]]. [http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2010/guide/preview_qld.htm 2010 election preview: Queensland] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100919084051/http://www.abc.net.au/elections/federal/2010/guide/preview_qld.htm |date=19 September 2010 }}. [[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]], 2010.</ref> After considering whether to contest a [[Australian Senate|Senate]] seat—which, by most accounts, she would have been heavily tipped to win—she opted to contest Blair.<ref name="Crikey-2017"/> Despite its very large notional Liberal majority (18.7 percent), most of her base was now located there.

Hanson launched her 1998 election campaign with a focus on jobs, rather than a focus on race/ethnicity or on "the people" against "the elites".  Instead Hanson focused on unemployment and the need to create more jobs not through government schemes but by "cheap loans to business, by more apprenticeships, and by doing something about tariffs".<ref>Goot, Murray. Pauline Hanson's One Nation: Extreme Right, Centre Party or Extreme Left? Labour History, No. 89, Nov 2005: 101–119. {{ISSN|0023-6942}}.</ref>

Hanson won 36 percent of the primary vote,<ref name="APH">{{cite web|url=http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1998-99/99rp09a.htm |title=Federal Elections 1998 (Research Paper 9 1998–99) |publisher=Aph.gov.au |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713000229/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1998-99/99rp09a.htm |archive-date=13 July 2010}}</ref> slightly over 10% more than the second-place Labor candidate, Virginia Clarke. However, with all three major parties [[ranked voting systems|preferencing]] each other ahead of Hanson, Liberal candidate [[Cameron Thompson (politician)|Cameron Thompson]] was able to win the seat despite finishing in third place on the first count. Thompson overtook Clarke on National preferences and defeated Hanson on Labor preferences.<ref name="APH" /> It has been suggested by Thompson that Hanson's litigation against parodist [[Pauline Pantsdown]] was a distraction from the election which contributed to her loss.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Johnson|first1=Bruce|title=Two Paulines, Two Nations: An Australian Case Study in the Intersection of Popular Music and Politics|journal=Popular Music and Society|date=January 2003|volume=26|issue=1|pages=53–72|doi=10.1080/0300776032000076397|s2cid=144202972}}</ref>

Nationally, One Nation gained 8.99 percent of the Senate vote<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1998-99/99rp08a.htm#Results |title=(Research Paper 8 1998–99) |publisher=Aph.gov.au |date=27 September 2001 |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319030848/http://www.aph.gov.au/library/pubs/rp/1998-99/99rp08a.htm |archive-date=19 March 2011}}</ref> and 8.4% of the Representatives vote,<ref name="APH" /> but only one MP was elected – [[Len Harris (politician)|Len Harris]] as a Senator for Queensland. [[Heather Hill (politician)|Heather Hill]] had been elected to this position, but the High Court of Australia ruled that, although she was an Australian citizen, she was ineligible for election to sit as a Senator because she had not renounced her British citizenship.<ref>{{Cite AustLII|HCA|30|1999|litigants=[[Sue v Hill]] |parallelcite=(1999) 199 [[Commonwealth Law Reports|CLR]] 462 |courtname=auto}}.</ref> The High Court found that, at least since 1986, Britain had counted as a 'foreign power' within the meaning of [[Section 44 of the Constitution of Australia|section 44(i) of the Constitution]].<ref>{{Cite Legislation AU|Cth|act|coaca430|Constitution|44}} Disqualification.</ref> Hanson alleged in her 2007 autobiography ''Pauline Hanson: Untamed & Unashamed'' that a number of other politicians had dual citizenship yet this did not prevent them from holding positions in Parliament.

In 1998, [[Tony Abbott]] had established a trust fund called "Australians for Honest Politics Trust" to help bankroll civil court cases against the One Nation Party and Hanson herself.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/specials/abbottaffair |title=Howard knew of slush fund to target Hanson |work=News Online |date=27 August 2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100619080814/http://www.smh.com.au/specials/abbottaffair/ |archive-date=19 June 2010}}</ref> [[John Howard]] denied any knowledge of the existence of such a fund.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2003/s933534.htm |title=Abbot denies lying over anti-Hanson fund |work=News Online |publisher=Lateline (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |date=27 August 2003 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100523081927/http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2003/s933534.htm |archive-date=23 May 2010}}</ref> Abbott was also accused of offering funds to One Nation dissident Terry Sharples to support his court battle against the party. However, Howard defended the honesty of Abbott in this matter.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/28/1062028265844.html |title=Honest Tony's too up front, says PM |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=28 August 2003 |access-date=8 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604101522/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/28/1062028265844.html |archive-date=4 June 2016}}</ref> Abbott conceded that the political threat One Nation posed to the Howard Government was "a very big factor" in his decision to pursue the legal attack, but he also said he was acting "in Australia's national interest". Howard also defended Abbott's actions saying "It's the job of the Liberal Party to politically attack other parties – there's nothing wrong with that."<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/27/1061663855108.html |title=Watchdog rethinks Liberal links to Abbott's slush fund |first1=Mike |last1=Seccombe |first2=Damien |last2=Murphy |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=28 August 2003 |access-date=8 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160604101520/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/27/1061663855108.html |archive-date=4 June 2016}}</ref>

===Time in office===
Hanson gained extensive media coverage during her campaign and once she took her seat in the House. Her first speech attracted considerable attention for the views it expressed on [[Aboriginal Australians|Aboriginal]] [[Centrelink|benefits]], welfare, immigration and [[multiculturalism]]. During her term in Parliament, Hanson spoke on social and economic issues such as the need for a fairer child support scheme and concern for the emergence of the working class poor. She also called for more accountable and effective administration of Indigenous affairs. Hanson's supporters viewed her as an ordinary person who challenged '[[political correctness]]' as a threat to Australia's identity.

The reaction of the mainstream political parties was negative, with parliament passing a resolution (supported by all members except [[Graeme Campbell (politician)|Graeme Campbell]]) condemning her views on immigration and multiculturalism. However, the Prime Minister at the time, John Howard, refused to [[censure]] Hanson or speak critically about her, acknowledging that her views were shared by many Australians,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2002/s458299.htm |title=Pauline Hanson pulls the plug as One Nation president |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation|ABC]] |date=14 January 2002 |access-date=29 August 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071014125501/http://abc.net.au/7.30/content/2002/s458299.htm |archive-date=14 October 2007}}</ref> commenting that he saw the expression of such views as evidence that the "pall of [[political correctness]]" had been lifted in Australia, and that Australians could now "speak a little more freely and a little more openly about what they feel".<ref name="Ward-1997a">{{Citation |last= Ward |first= Ian |date=August 1997 |title=Australian Political Chronicle: June–December 1996 |journal=Australian Journal of Politics and History |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=216–224 |doi=10.1111/j.1467-8497.1997.tb01389.x}}</ref>

Hanson immediately labelled Howard a "strong leader" and said Australians were now free to discuss issues without "fear of being branded as a bigot or racist". Over the next few months, Hanson attracted populist [[anti-immigration]] sentiment and the attention of the [[Citizens' Electoral Council]], the [[Australian League of Rights]] and other right-wing groups. Then-Immigration Minister [[Phillip Ruddock]] announced a tougher government line on refugee applications, and cut the family reunion intake by 10,000, despite an election promise to maintain immigration levels.<ref name="Ward-1997a"/> Various academic experts, business leaders and several state premiers attacked the justification offered by Ruddock, who had claimed that the reduction had been forced by continuing high unemployment. Various ethnic communities complained that this attack on multiculturalism was a cynical response to polls showing Hanson's rising popularity. Hanson herself claimed credit for forcing the government's hand.<ref name="Ward-1997">{{Citation |last= Ward |first= Ian |date=December 1997 |title= Australian Political Chronicle: January–June 1997 |journal= Australian Journal of Politics and History |volume= 43 |issue= 3 |page=374 }}</ref>

===2001 election campaign===
[[File:Pauline Hanson at the Kurri Kurri Nostalgia Festival in 2011.jpg|thumb|right|upright|Hanson at the Kurri Kurri Nostalgia Festival in 2011]]
At the next [[2001 Australian federal election|federal election]] on 10 November 2001, Hanson ran for a Queensland senate seat but narrowly failed. She accounted for her declining popularity by claiming that the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberals]] under [[John Howard]] had stolen her policies.<ref name="The Age-2003">{{cite news | url = http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/20/1061261209218.html | title = It's porridge for Pauline | work = [[The Age]] | date = 20 August 2003 | access-date = 12 September 2007 | location = Melbourne | url-status = live | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090224212326/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/20/1061261209218.html | archive-date = 24 February 2009 | df = dmy-all }}</ref>
<blockquote>"It has been widely recognised by all, including the media, that John Howard sailed home on One Nation policies. In short, if we were not around, John Howard would not have made the decisions he did."<ref name="The Age-2003" /></blockquote>

Other interrelated factors that contributed to her political decline from 1998 to 2002 include her connection with a series of advisors with whom she ultimately fell out ([[John Pasquarelli]], David Ettridge and David Oldfield); disputes amongst her supporters; and a lawsuit over the organisational structure of One Nation.

In 2003, following her release from prison, Hanson unsuccessfully contested the New South Wales state election, running for a seat in the upper house. In January 2004, Hanson announced that she did not intend to return to politics.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/16/1073877995439.html |title=Hanson rules out return to politics |work=The Age |date=16 January 2004 |access-date=9 July 2010 |location=Melbourne |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511213955/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/01/16/1073877995439.html |archive-date=11 May 2011}}</ref> but then stood as an independent candidate for one of Queensland's seats in the Senate in the [[2004 Australian federal election|2004 federal election]]. At the time, Hanson declared, "I don't want all the hangers on. I don't want the advisers and everyone else. I want it to be this time Pauline Hanson." She was unsuccessful, receiving only 31.77% of the required quota of primary votes,<ref name="AEC">{{cite web|url=http://results.aec.gov.au/12246/results/SenateStateFirstPrefs-12246-QLD.htm|title=First Preferences by Candidate – Queensland|author=Australian Electoral Commission|date=9 November 2005|access-date=7 August 2007|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829153803/http://results.aec.gov.au/12246/results/SenateStateFirstPrefs-12246-QLD.htm|archive-date=29 August 2007}}</ref> and did not pick up enough additional support through preferences. However, she attracted more votes than the One Nation party (4.54% compared to 3.14%)<ref name="AEC" /> and, unlike her former party, recovered her deposit from the Australian Electoral Commission and secured $150,000 of public electoral funding.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Top payout for running |work=The Northern Times |page=12 |date=15 October 2004}}</ref> Hanson claimed to have been vilified over campaign funding.<ref>{{Cite news | last = Strutt | first = Sam | title = Hanson will party on Back under a new name in new year | newspaper = [[Herald Sun]] | page = 13 | date = 27 December 2007}}</ref>

Hanson contested the [[electoral district of Beaudesert]] as an independent at the [[2009 Queensland state election]].<ref>[http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/25/2500584.htm Hanson election bid will have voters groaning: Bligh] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228055113/http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/25/2500584.htm |date=28 February 2009 }} (ABC, 25 February 2009).</ref> After an election campaign dominated by discussion over hoax photographs, she was placed third behind the [[Liberal National Party of Queensland|Liberal National Party]]'s [[Aidan McLindon]] and Labor's Brett McCreadie. There were conflicting media reports as to whether she had said she would not consider running again.<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/national/ill-quit-politics-says-hanson-20090321-953o.html I'll quit politics, says Hanson] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090323074206/http://www.smh.com.au/national/ill-quit-politics-says-hanson-20090321-953o.html |date=23 March 2009 }} (''Sydney Morning Herald'', 22 March 2009).</ref><ref>[http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25223465-5006301,00.html Hanson defeated, blames hoax photos: The Advertiser] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090325072652/http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,25223465-5006301,00.html |date=25 March 2009 }}.</ref>

On 23 July 2010, while at an event promoting her new career as a motivational speaker, Hanson expressed interest in returning to the political stage as a [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal]] candidate if an invitation were to be offered by the leader [[Tony Abbott]] in the [[2010 Australian federal election|2010 federal election]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/pauline-hanson-considering-a-return-to-politics-if-tony-abbott-asks-her-to/story-e6frfllr-1225896285293 |title=Pauline Hanson considering a return to politics... if Tony Abbott asks her to |publisher=News.com.au |date=23 July 2010 |access-date=3 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100726113622/http://www.news.com.au/features/federal-election/pauline-hanson-considering-a-return-to-politics-if-tony-abbott-asks-her-to/story-e6frfllr-1225896285293 |archive-date=26 July 2010}}</ref> No such offer was made.

===Rattnergate scandal===
In March 2011, Hanson ran as an independent candidate for the [[New South Wales Legislative Council]] in the [[2011 New South Wales state election|2011 state election]],<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nicholls|first=Sean|title=Pauline Hanson running in NSW election|url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/state-election-2011/pauline-hanson-running-in-nsw-election-20110308-1bmoy.html|access-date=8 March 2011|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=8 March 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311075841/http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/state-election-2011/pauline-hanson-running-in-nsw-election-20110308-1bmoy.html|archive-date=11 March 2011}}</ref> but was not elected, receiving 2.41 percent of the primary statewide vote but losing on preferences.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Hanson fails to win seat in NSW|url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hanson-fails-to-win-seat-in-nsw-20110412-1dbuy.html|access-date=12 April 2011|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=12 April 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110414125653/http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/hanson-fails-to-win-seat-in-nsw-20110412-1dbuy.html|archive-date=14 April 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nsw/2011/guide/lc-results.htm|title=Legislative Council Results|website=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|access-date=12 April 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425162148/http://www.abc.net.au/elections/nsw/2011/guide/lc-results.htm|archive-date=25 April 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Pauline Hanson misses out on NSW seat in distribution of preferences|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/pauline-hanson-misses-out-on-nsw-senate-seat-in-distribution-of-preferences/story-fn59niix-1226037767428|access-date=12 April 2011|newspaper=The Australian|date=12 April 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130617211743/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/pauline-hanson-misses-out-on-nsw-senate-seat-in-distribution-of-preferences/story-fn59niix-1226037767428|archive-date=17 June 2013}}</ref> Following the election, Hanson alleged that "dodgy staff" employed by the [[NSW Electoral Commission]] put 1,200 votes for her in a pile of blank ballots, and she claimed that she had a forwarded NSW Electoral Commission internal email as evidence of this.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Hanson cries sabotage over 'hidden' votes|url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/hanson-cries-sabotage-over-hidden-votes-20110505-1e9hg.html|access-date=16 June 2012|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=5 May 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110920053115/http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/hanson-cries-sabotage-over-hidden-votes-20110505-1e9hg.html|archive-date=20 September 2011}}</ref> Hanson then commenced legal proceedings to challenge the outcome of the election in the NSW Supreme Court, which sat as the Court of Disputed Returns.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Hanson to challenge NSW vote count|url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/hanson-to-challenge-nsw-vote-count-20110504-1e7y5.html|access-date=16 June 2012|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=4 May 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325161510/http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/hanson-to-challenge-nsw-vote-count-20110504-1e7y5.html|archive-date=25 March 2014}}</ref>

From the start of proceedings, the NSW Electoral Commissioner maintained the view that Hanson's claims lacked substance.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Bennett|first=Adam|title=Commissioner backs staff in Hanson row|url=http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/commissioner-backs-staff-in-hanson-row-20110517-1er1h.html|access-date=16 June 2012|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=17 May 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325162535/http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/commissioner-backs-staff-in-hanson-row-20110517-1er1h.html|archive-date=25 March 2014}}</ref> The man who alerted Hanson to the alleged emails, who identified himself as "Michael Rattner", failed to appear in court on 8 June 2011<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wallace|first=Rick|title=Key witness for Pauline Hanson a no-show|url=http://www.news.com.au/national/key-witness-for-pauline-hanson-a-no-show/story-e6frfkvr-1226071784343|access-date=16 June 2012|publisher=news.com.au|date=8 June 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110817075908/http://www.news.com.au/national/key-witness-for-pauline-hanson-a-no-show/story-e6frfkvr-1226071784343|archive-date=17 August 2011}}</ref> "Rattner" was revealed to be Shaun Castle, a history teacher who posed as a journalist to obtain embargoed progressive poll results.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Knott|first=Matthew|title=Rattnergate revelation: Hanson's mole was a fraud|url=http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/10/rattnergate-revelation-hansons-mole-was-a-fraud/|access-date=16 June 2012|publisher=crikey.com.au|date=10 June 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016090623/http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/10/rattnergate-revelation-hansons-mole-was-a-fraud/|archive-date=16 October 2012}}</ref>

"Michael Rattner" was a pun on [[Mickey Mouse]] and reports linked the pseudonym to an "anti-voter-fraud" organisation led by Amy McGrath and [[Alasdair Webster]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wallace|first=Rick|title=Hanson hoaxer speaks out: and the trail leads to... Mickey Mouse|url=http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/23/hanson-hoaxer-speaks-out-and-the-trail-leads-to-mickey-mouse/|access-date=16 June 2012|publisher=crikey.com.au|date=23 June 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121016090605/http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/06/23/hanson-hoaxer-speaks-out-and-the-trail-leads-to-mickey-mouse/|archive-date=16 October 2012}}</ref>

After having refused to answer questions on the grounds of self-incrimination, Castle apologised to the court and was granted protection from prosecution by Justice McClellan, before being compelled to answer questions relating to the fraudulent email.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Wallace|first=Rick|title=Pauline Hanson fraudster Shaun Castle admits deception|url=http://www.news.com.au/national/hanson-fraudster-admits-deception/story-e6frfkvr-1226075203501|access-date=16 June 2012|newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=14 June 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110804035859/http://www.news.com.au/national/hanson-fraudster-admits-deception/story-e6frfkvr-1226075203501|archive-date=4 August 2011}}</ref> The judge ordered that Hanson's legal costs of more than $150,000 be paid by the State of New South Wales – a move which outraged [[Australian Greens|Greens]] MP [[Jeremy Buckingham]], who would have been replaced by Hanson had her challenge been successful. Questioning whether Hanson's legal action should have gone ahead at all given the nature of the evidence, Buckingham said that "This lack of judgement shows that she's unfit for public office."<ref>{{Cite news|last=Godfrey|first=Miles|title=Taxpayers hit for Hanson's failed election challenge|url=http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/taxpayers-hit-for-hansons-failed-election-challenge-20110624-1gjba.html|access-date=16 June 2012|newspaper=Brisbane Times|date=25 June 2011|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022214921/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/taxpayers-hit-for-hansons-failed-election-challenge-20110624-1gjba.html|archive-date=22 October 2012}}</ref> Earlier, the judge, Justice McClellan, said Hanson had no other remedy but to take legal action after receiving the fraudulent email.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Pauline Hanson had no choice but to challenge election loss, a judge says |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/pauline-hanson-had-no-choice-but-to-challenge-election-loss-a-judge-says/story-e6frg6nf-1226076372871|access-date=24 April 2016|newspaper=The Australian|date=16 June 2011}}</ref>

===Ousted from One Nation, forming a new party===
[[File:Pauline Hanson (438351804) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Hanson in March 2007 at the launch of her autobiography ''Untamed and Unashamed'']]
At the [[1999 New South Wales state election|1999 election]], One Nation politician [[David Oldfield (politician)|David Oldfield]] was elected to the [[New South Wales Legislative Council]], the state parliament's upper house. However, in 2000, Oldfield was expelled from One Nation for an alleged verbal dispute with Hanson. Within weeks, Oldfield had established the splinter group, [[One Nation NSW]].

One Nation won three seats in the [[Western Australian Legislative Council]] at the [[2001 Western Australian state election|2001 state election]], but the electoral success of One Nation began to deteriorate after this point because the split-away of One Nation NSW began to spark further lack of party unity, and a series of gaffes by One Nation members and candidates, particularly in Queensland.

Hanson resigned from One Nation in January 2002 and John Fischer, the State Leader from [[Western Australia]], was elected the Federal President of One Nation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228668204|title=The Passing of Pauline|date=5 February 2002|newspaper=[[Tharunka]]|access-date=7 February 2019|issue=1|location=New South Wales, Australia|volume=48|page=13|via=National Library of Australia|archive-date=21 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221022309/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/228668204|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 24 May 2007, Hanson launched [[Pauline's United Australia Party]].<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/05/24/1179601573572.html Now Pauline's for a united Australia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104070739/http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/05/24/1179601573572.html |date=4 November 2012 }},  ''The Sydney Morning Herald'', 24 May 2007. Retrieved 28 February 2010.</ref> Under that banner, Hanson again contested one of Queensland's seats in the Senate in the [[2007 Australian federal election|2007 federal election]], when she received over 4 percent of total votes.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://results.aec.gov.au/13745/website/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroup-13745-QLD.htm |title=Senate State First Preferences By Group |publisher=Results.aec.gov.au |date=14 December 2007 |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100703202616/http://results.aec.gov.au/13745/Website/SenateStateFirstPrefsByGroup-13745-QLD.htm |archive-date=3 July 2010}}</ref> The party name invokes that of the historic [[United Australia Party]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registered_parties/index.htm |title=Current List of Political Parties |publisher=Aec.gov.au |date=7 May 2010 |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100724191009/http://www.aec.gov.au/Parties_and_Representatives/Party_Registration/Registered_parties/index.htm |archive-date=24 July 2010}}</ref> Speaking on her return to politics, she stated: "I have had all the major political parties attack me, been kicked out of my own party and ended up in prison, but I don't give up."<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/20/1195321782077.html Hanson flying below radar for one last shot at Senate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511213958/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/11/20/1195321782077.html |date=11 May 2011 }} (''The Age'', 20 November 2007).</ref> In October 2007, Hanson launched her campaign song, entitled "Australian Way of Life", which included the line: "Welcome everyone, no matter where you come from."<ref>[http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/10/05/1191091356094.html Hanson launches campaign song] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511214003/http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2007/10/05/1191091356094.html |date=11 May 2011 }} (''The Age'', 5 October 2007)</ref>

After an unsuccessful campaign in the [[2009 Queensland state election]], Hanson announced in 2010 that she planned to deregister Pauline's United Australia Party, sell her Queensland house and move to the United Kingdom.<ref>[http://womansday.ninemsn.com.au/celebrity/inthemag/1011631/pauline-hanson-says-goodbye-australia Pauline Hanson says goodbye to Australia] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100217041734/http://womansday.ninemsn.com.au/celebrity/inthemag/1011631/pauline-hanson-says-goodbye-australia |date=17 February 2010 }} (''Woman's Day'', 15 February 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.)</ref><ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/national/i-wont-call-australia-home-hanson-to-emigrate-20100214-nzkr.html I won't call Australia home: Hanson plans to emigrate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301183535/http://www.smh.com.au/national/i-wont-call-australia-home-hanson-to-emigrate-20100214-nzkr.html |date=1 March 2010 }} (''Sydney Morning Herald'', 15 February 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.</ref><ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7239699/Right-wing-Australian-politician-Pauline-Hanson-to-move-to-Britain.html Right-wing Australian politician Pauline Hanson to move to Britain] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218113112/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/7239699/Right-wing-Australian-politician-Pauline-Hanson-to-move-to-Britain.html |date=18 February 2010 }} (''Telegraph'' (UK), 15 February 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.</ref><ref>[http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/buyers-intrigued-by-paulines-paradise-20100215-o1mk.html Buyers intrigued by Pauline's paradise] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100218134653/http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/buyers-intrigued-by-paulines-paradise-20100215-o1mk.html |date=18 February 2010 }} (''Brisbane Times'', 15 February 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.</ref> The announcement was warmly welcomed by [[Nick Griffin]], leader of the far-right [[British National Party]] (BNP).<ref>[http://www.smh.com.au/world/british-farright-leader-welcomes-hanson-20100216-o8yv.html British far-right leader welcomes Hanson] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219231737/http://www.smh.com.au/world/british-farright-leader-welcomes-hanson-20100216-o8yv.html |date=19 February 2010 }} (''Sydney Morning Herald'', 17 February 2010. Retrieved 28 February 2010.</ref> When considering moving, Hanson said that she would not sell her house to Muslims.<ref>{{cite web |author=Daniel Hurst |url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/pauline-hansons-muslim-ban-illegal-20100427-tqbb.html |title=Pauline Hanson's Muslim ban 'illegal' |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=28 April 2010 |access-date=4 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160616231304/http://www.smh.com.au/national/pauline-hansons-muslim-ban-illegal-20100427-tqbb.html |archive-date=16 June 2016}}</ref> However, following an extended holiday in Europe, Hanson said in November 2010 that she had decided not to move to Britain because it was "overrun with immigrants and refugees."<ref>{{cite news|title=UK too full of immigrants, says Pauline Hanson|url=http://www.news.com.au/national/uk-too-full-of-immigrants-says-pauline-hanson/story-e6frfkvr-1225953243773|access-date=5 October 2014|publisher=news.com.au|date=14 November 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006144953/http://www.news.com.au/national/uk-too-full-of-immigrants-says-pauline-hanson/story-e6frfkvr-1225953243773|archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref> Hanson lives in [[Beaudesert, Queensland]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Kate Dennehy |url=http://www.smh.com.au/national/paulines-paradise-lost-20101113-17rsb.html |title=Pauline's paradise lost |work=The Sydney Morning Herald |date=14 November 2010 |access-date=4 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170327052117/http://www.smh.com.au/national/paulines-paradise-lost-20101113-17rsb.html |archive-date=27 March 2017}}</ref>

===Return as One Nation leader (2013–present)===
{{See also|Pauline Hanson's burqa incidents}}
In 2013, Hanson announced that she would stand in the 2013 federal election.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/pauline-hanson-to-run-again-in-federal-election/story-fn59niix-1226592181836 | work=The Australian | title=Pauline Hanson to run again in federal election | date=7 March 2013 | url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008195038/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/pauline-hanson-to-run-again-in-federal-election/story-fn59niix-1226592181836 | archive-date=8 October 2014 | df=dmy-all }}</ref> She rejoined the One Nation party and was a Senate candidate in New South Wales.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Ireland|first1=Judith|title=Hanson's Senate bid: 'I'm the redhead voters can trust'|url=https://www.theage.com.au/opinion/political-news/hansons-senate-bid-im-the-redhead-they-can-trust-20130603-2nl21.html|access-date=28 November 2017|work=The Age|date=3 June 2013|archive-date=21 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221022304/https://www.theage.com.au/politics/federal/hansons-senate-bid-im-the-redhead-voters-can-trust-20130603-2nl21.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She did not win a seat, attracting 1.22% of the first preference vote.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/results/senate/nsw/|title=Senate Results: New South Wales|work=ABC News|access-date=12 April 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160410100148/http://www.abc.net.au/news/federal-election-2013/results/senate/nsw/|archive-date=10 April 2016}}</ref>
[[File:Jabiru - Pauline Hanson - One Nation.jpg|thumb|Pauline Hanson in a [[Jabiru J230]] at [[Caboolture Airfield]] for the Caboolture Air Show in April 2016. The aircraft has "Fed Up" slogan decals on the side.]]

In November 2014, Hanson announced that she had returned as One Nation leader, prior to the party's announcement, following support from One Nation party members.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.onenation.com.au/history|title=History – Pauline Hanson's One Nation|access-date=12 April 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313184948/http://www.onenation.com.au/history|archive-date=13 March 2016}}</ref> She announced that she would contest the seat of [[Electoral district of Lockyer|Lockyer]] in the 2015 Queensland state election.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-16/one-nation-pauline-hanson-to-run-for-seat-of-lockyer/5971370|title=Pauline Hanson to run for seat of Lockyer in Queensland election|work=ABC News|access-date=12 April 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160710173502/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-16/one-nation-pauline-hanson-to-run-for-seat-of-lockyer/5971370|archive-date=10 July 2016|date=16 December 2014}}</ref> One Nation held the Queensland seat of Lockyer from 1998 to 2004. In February 2015, Hanson lost the seat by a narrow margin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-02/pauline-hanson-takes-lead-in-count-of-lockyer-seat/6064278 |title=Queensland election 2015: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson takes lead in vote count of Lockyer |date=2 February 2015 |work=ABC News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150205042858/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-02/pauline-hanson-takes-lead-in-count-of-lockyer-seat/6064278 |archive-date=5 February 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/queensland-state-election-2015/pauline-hanson-making-impact-in-race-for-seat-of-lockyer/story-fnr8vuu5-1227205469082 |title=Pauline Hanson making impact in race for seat of Lockyer |work=Courier Mail |date=2 February 2015 |access-date=8 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/qld-election-2015/guide/lock |title=Queensland Election 2015: Lockyer Results |work=ABC Elections |date=31 January 2015 |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=8 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160620142006/http://www.abc.net.au/news/qld-election-2015/guide/lock/ |archive-date=20 June 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2015/02/queensland-election-result-update-2-february.html |title=Queensland Election Result Update – 2 February |date=2 February 2015 |author=Antony Green |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |access-date=8 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160730172403/http://blogs.abc.net.au/antonygreen/2015/02/queensland-election-result-update-2-february.html |archive-date=30 July 2016}}</ref>

====First Senate term (2016–2022)====
In mid-2015, Hanson announced that she would contest the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] for Queensland at the [[2016 Australian federal election|2016 federal election]], and also announced the endorsement of several other candidates throughout Australia. She campaigned on a tour she called "Fed Up" in 2015, and spoke at a [[Reclaim Australia]] rally.<ref>Anna Broinowski (director) "[http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/727304771972/Pauline-Hanson-Please-Explain#! Pauline Hanson: Please Explain!] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160804035900/http://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/video/727304771972/Pauline-Hanson-Please-Explain |date=4 August 2016 }}" Documentary aired 31 July 2016, SBS Australia. timestamp:21 min, 40 sec.</ref> Hanson won a seat in the Senate at the election,<ref>{{cite web |author=Adrian Beaumont |url=https://theconversation.com/after-messy-night-coalition-more-likely-to-form-government-but-pauline-hanson-is-in-the-senate-61207 |title=After messy night, Coalition more likely to form government – but Pauline Hanson is in the Senate |date=3 July 2016 |publisher=Theconversation.com |access-date=4 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160704125225/http://theconversation.com/after-messy-night-coalition-more-likely-to-form-government-but-pauline-hanson-is-in-the-senate-61207 |archive-date=4 July 2016}}</ref> and One Nation won 9% of the vote in Queensland.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-04/election-2016-how-pauline-hanson-made-her-political-comeback/7567666 |title=Election 2016: How Pauline Hanson made her political comeback – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=4 July 2016 |access-date=13 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160814064105/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-04/election-2016-how-pauline-hanson-made-her-political-comeback/7567666 |archive-date=14 August 2016}}</ref> According to the rules governing the allocation of Senate seats following a [[double dissolution]], Hanson served a full six-year term.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-12/pauline-hanson-secures-six-years-in-senate/7730280 |title=Election 2016: Pauline Hanson secured a six-year Senate term, Derryn Hinch has three years until re-election |work=ABC News |date=12 August 2016 |access-date=13 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160812171842/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-08-12/pauline-hanson-secures-six-years-in-senate/7730280 |archive-date=12 August 2016}}</ref> Hanson secured a spot on the [[National Broadband Network]] parliamentary committee.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/12/pauline-hanson-gets-prized-nationals-spot-on-nbn-committee |title=Pauline Hanson gets prized Nationals spot on NBN committee |access-date=12 October 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161012103631/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/oct/12/pauline-hanson-gets-prized-nationals-spot-on-nbn-committee |archive-date=12 October 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=12 October 2016 }}</ref>

After being elected to the parliament, she and other One Nation senators voted with the [[Turnbull government|governing]] [[Coalition (Australia)|Coalition]] on a number of welfare cuts,<ref>{{cite news |author=Phillip Coorey |url=http://www.afr.com/news/politics/scott-morrison-wins-one-nation-backing-for-6b-in-welfare-cuts-20161024-gs9q5t |title=Scott Morrison wins One Nation backing for $6b in welfare cuts |newspaper=[[Australian Financial Review]] |date=26 October 2016 |access-date=8 January 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161230160419/http://www.afr.com/news/politics/scott-morrison-wins-one-nation-backing-for-6b-in-welfare-cuts-20161024-gs9q5t |archive-date=30 December 2016}}<br/>{{cite news |author=Phillip Coorey |url=http://www.afr.com/news/politics/pauline-hanson-sounds-budget-warning-defends-welfare-cuts-20161027-gscnxw |title=Pauline Hanson sounds budget warning, defends welfare cuts. |newspaper=Australian Financial Review |date=29 October 2016 |access-date=8 January 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170101182140/http://www.afr.com/news/politics/pauline-hanson-sounds-budget-warning-defends-welfare-cuts-20161027-gscnxw |archive-date=1 January 2017}}</ref> and usually supports the government.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[Sydney Morning Herald]]|url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pauline-hansons-one-nation-emerges-as-governments-most-reliable-senate-voting-partner-20170304-guqo6i.html|title=Pauline Hanson's One Nation emerges as government's most reliable Senate voting partner|date=4 March 2017|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170420052701/http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pauline-hansons-one-nation-emerges-as-governments-most-reliable-senate-voting-partner-20170304-guqo6i.html|archive-date=20 April 2017}}</ref>

On 17 August 2017, Hanson received criticism after wearing a [[burqa]], which she claims "oppresses women", into the Senate. Attorney-General [[George Brandis]] got a standing ovation from Labor and Greens senators after he gave an "emotional" speech saying to Hanson: "To ridicule that community, to drive it into a corner, to mock its religious garments is an appalling thing to do."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pauline-hanson-burqa-stunt-george-brandis-pulls-off-his-finest-speech-by-calling-out-a-dangerous-fool-20170817-gxyf7f.html |title=Pauline Hanson burqa stunt: George Brandis pulls off his finest speech by calling out a dangerous fool |access-date=17 August 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818004256/http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/pauline-hanson-burqa-stunt-george-brandis-pulls-off-his-finest-speech-by-calling-out-a-dangerous-fool-20170817-gxyf7f.html |archive-date=18 August 2017 |date=17 August 2017 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-17/pauline-hanson-wears-burka-to-question-time-in-the-senate/8816886 |title=Emotional Brandis savages Hanson for wearing burka in Senate |newspaper=ABC News |date=17 August 2017 |access-date=17 August 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170818002042/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-17/pauline-hanson-wears-burka-to-question-time-in-the-senate/8816886 |archive-date=18 August 2017}}</ref> Following the incident, polling found that 57% of Australians supported Hanson's call to ban the burka in public places, with 44% "strongly" supporting a ban.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2017/08/25/reachtel-poll-shows-support-for-burqa-ban.html |title=ReachTEL poll shows support for burqa ban |access-date=6 December 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170831131448/http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2017/08/25/reachtel-poll-shows-support-for-burqa-ban.html |archive-date=31 August 2017}}</ref> In August 2017, the party's constitution was changed, for Hanson to become party President for as long as she may wish and to choose her successor, who may also continue until resignation.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/13/pauline-hanson-written-into-one-nation-constitution-as-effective-president-for-life|title=Pauline Hanson written into One Nation constitution as effective president for life|work=The Guardian|date=13 May 2018|access-date=13 May 2018|archive-date=12 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180512232539/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/13/pauline-hanson-written-into-one-nation-constitution-as-effective-president-for-life|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 22 March 2018, Hanson announced that One Nation would back the [[Turnbull government]]'s corporate tax cuts.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-22/pauline-hanson-strikes-deal-on-company-tax-cuts/9576930|title=One Nation to back company tax cuts in exchange for funding for 1,000 apprentices|newspaper=ABC News|date=22 March 2018|access-date=22 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322111412/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-22/pauline-hanson-strikes-deal-on-company-tax-cuts/9576930|archive-date=22 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/pauline-hanson-backs-corporate-tax-cuts/news-story/813cd47c3c084ac01e6611aa29d02aeb|title=Pauline Hanson backs corporate tax cuts|work=NewsComAu |access-date=22 March 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180322082454/http://www.news.com.au/national/breaking-news/pauline-hanson-backs-corporate-tax-cuts/news-story/813cd47c3c084ac01e6611aa29d02aeb|archive-date=22 March 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2018/mar/22/coalition-labor-greens-company-tax-cuts-senate-marine-parks-politics-live|title=Pauline Hanson's One Nation says it will back Coalition's corporate tax cuts – as it happened|first=Amy|last=Remeikis|date=22 March 2018|access-date=22 March 2018|via=www.theguardian.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180321232705/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2018/mar/22/coalition-labor-greens-company-tax-cuts-senate-marine-parks-politics-live|archive-date=21 March 2018|newspaper=The Guardian}}</ref> She subsequently reversed her position, citing the failure of the government to cut immigration levels and support coal-fired power.<ref>{{cite news |last=Karp |first=Paul |date=22 May 2018 |title=Pauline Hanson to oppose corporate tax cuts in fresh backflip |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/22/pauline-hanson-to-oppose-corporate-tax-cuts-in-fresh-backflip |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=[[Sydney]] |access-date=15 September 2018 |archive-date=15 September 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180915122352/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/22/pauline-hanson-to-oppose-corporate-tax-cuts-in-fresh-backflip |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 15 October 2018, Hanson proposed an "It's OK to be white" motion in the [[Australian Senate]] intended to acknowledge the "deplorable rise of anti-white racism and attacks on Western civilization".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-backs-pauline-hanson-s-it-s-ok-to-be-white-motion-20181015-p509tw.html|title=Coalition backs Pauline Hanson's 'It's OK to be white' motion|last1=Bourke|first1=Latika|date=15 October 2018|work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]|access-date=15 October 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20191024215556/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/coalition-backs-pauline-hanson-s-it-s-ok-to-be-white-motion-20181015-p509tw.html|archive-date=24 October 2019}}</ref> It was supported by most senators from the governing [[Liberal-National Coalition]], but was defeated 31–28 by opponents who called it a racist slogan from the white supremacist movement.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/pauline-hanson-says-it-s-ok-to-be-white|title=Pauline Hanson says 'it's OK to be white'|date=15 October 2018|work=[[SBS News]]|access-date=15 October 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017022936/https://www.sbs.com.au/news/pauline-hanson-says-it-s-ok-to-be-white|archive-date=17 October 2018|agency=[[Australian Associated Press]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/15/ok-to-be-white-australian-government-senators-condemn-anti-white-racism|title='OK to be white': Australian government senators condemn 'anti-white racism'|last1=Karp|first1=Paul|date=15 October 2018|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=15 October 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190317051341/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/15/ok-to-be-white-australian-government-senators-condemn-anti-white-racism|archive-date=17 March 2019}}</ref> The following day, the motion was "recommitted", and this time rejected unanimously by senators in attendance, with its initial supporters in the Liberal-National Coalition saying they had voted for it due to an administrative error (One Nation did not attend the recommital vote).<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/16/australian-senators-inadvertently-back-far-right-motion-saying-its-ok-to-be-white|title=Australian senators say error led to backing far-right motion saying 'it's OK to be white'|date=16 October 2018|work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=16 October 2018|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501072106/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/oct/16/australian-senators-inadvertently-back-far-right-motion-saying-its-ok-to-be-white|archive-date=1 May 2019}}</ref>

On 18 September 2019, the Liberal government announced that Hanson would co-chair the newly announced parliamentary inquiry into family law along with Kevin Andrews.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/18/pauline-hanson-sparks-fury-with-claims-domestic-violence-victims-are-lying-to-family-court|title=Pauline Hanson sparks fury with claim domestic violence victims are lying to family court|first=Sarah |last=Martin |date=18 September 2019|work=The Guardian|access-date=18 September 2019|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077|archive-date=18 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190918030452/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/sep/18/pauline-hanson-sparks-fury-with-claims-domestic-violence-victims-are-lying-to-family-court|url-status=live}}</ref> She proposed a parliament motion advocating opposition to the proposed [[Great Reset]] of the [[World Economic Forum]], on the belief that it is cover for creating a [[New World Order (conspiracy theory)|New World Order]]. Her proposal was defeated by 37 votes to 2.<ref>{{cite news|last=McGuinness|first=Parnell Palme|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/great-reset-or-grating-global-conspiracy-theory-either-way-don-t-dismiss-genuine-anxiety-20201120-p56gee.html|title=Great Reset or grating global conspiracy theory? Either way, don't dismiss genuine anxiety|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=21 November 2020|access-date=22 November 2020|archive-date=22 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122010101/https://www.smh.com.au/national/great-reset-or-grating-global-conspiracy-theory-either-way-don-t-dismiss-genuine-anxiety-20201120-p56gee.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2019, Hanson campaigned against a ban on climbing [[Uluru]], a sacred site for local Aboriginal people.<ref name="Karp-2020"/> Shortly before the ban came into effect, in August [[Nine Network|Channel Nine]] paid for Hanson's trip to Uluru and on their ''[[A Current Affair (Australian TV program)|A Current Affair]]'' program she was shown in a controversial episode climbing the rock.<ref name="Karp-2020">{{cite news|last=Karp|first=Paul|title=Channel Nine paid for Pauline Hanson's Uluru trip where she made controversial climb|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/09/channel-nine-paid-for-pauline-hansons-uluru-trip-where-she-made-controversial-climb|agency=The Guardian|date=9 October 2020|access-date=11 October 2020|archive-date=10 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010224352/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/oct/09/channel-nine-paid-for-pauline-hansons-uluru-trip-where-she-made-controversial-climb|url-status=live}}</ref>

Beginning in May 2019, Hanson was a regular contributor on Channel Nine's ''[[Today (1982 TV program)|Today]]'' show.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Meade |first1=Amanda |title=Uluru climb ban: Today show criticised after segment featuring Pauline Hanson |url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jul/15/uluru-climb-ban-today-show-criticised-after-segment-featuring-pauline-hanson |work=The Guardian |date=15 July 2019 |access-date=8 July 2020 |archive-date=8 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708092128/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/jul/15/uluru-climb-ban-today-show-criticised-after-segment-featuring-pauline-hanson |url-status=live }}</ref> She was removed from the role in July 2020 after describing people who lived in Melbourne public housing as drug addicts who couldn't speak English.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zhou |first1=Naaman |last2=Simons |first2=Margaret |title=Today show dumps Pauline Hanson for 'divisive' remarks about Melbourne public housing residents |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/06/today-show-dumps-pauline-hanson-for-divisive-remarks-about-melbourne-public-housing-residents |work=The Guardian |date=6 July 2020 |access-date=8 July 2020 |archive-date=7 July 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200707235356/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/06/today-show-dumps-pauline-hanson-for-divisive-remarks-about-melbourne-public-housing-residents |url-status=live }}</ref>

Following the [[2019 Australian federal election|2019 federal election]], One Nation obtained $2.8 million in electoral expenses from the [[Australian Electoral Commission]]. Later, the Commission required One Nation to repay $165,442 as money that had not been spent or not spent for electoral purposes.  In addition, it is reported: "Hanson has personally agreed to an enforceable undertaking. And the party must in future make sure all invoices are in Hanson’s name, the party’s name or the name of a party officer. And make sure that all invoices match payment receipts, credit card or bank statements."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/pauline-hanson-in-hot-water-with-electoral-commission-again-20210830-p58naj.html|last1=Hutchinson|first1=Samantha|last2=Brook|first2=Stephen|title=Pauline Hanson in hot water with electoral commission, again|work=Sydney Morning Herald|date=31 August 2021|access-date=1 September 2021|archive-date=1 September 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901114942/https://www.smh.com.au/national/pauline-hanson-in-hot-water-with-electoral-commission-again-20210830-p58naj.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In June 2021, following media reports that the proposed [[Australian Curriculum|national curriculum]] was "preoccupied with the oppression, discrimination and struggles of [[Indigenous Australians]]", the [[Australian Senate]] approved a motion tabled by Hanson calling on the federal government to reject [[Critical race theory]] CRT, despite it not being included in the curriculum.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gatwiri |first1=Kathomi |last2=Anderson |first2=Leticia |date=22 June 2021 |title=The Senate has voted to reject critical race theory from the national curriculum. What is it, and why does it matter? |url=http://theconversation.com/the-senate-has-voted-to-reject-critical-race-theory-from-the-national-curriculum-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-163102 |access-date=25 June 2021 |website=The Conversation |archive-date=23 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210623040849/https://theconversation.com/the-senate-has-voted-to-reject-critical-race-theory-from-the-national-curriculum-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter-163102 |url-status=live }}</ref>

====Second Senate term (2022–present)====
In July 2022, the Senate opened with the [[Lord's Prayer]] and an [[Acknowledgement of Country]], as normal. The ceremony includes the words: "[the Parliament] recognises the [[Ngunnawal]] and [[Ngambri]] peoples as the traditional custodians of the Canberra meetings, and pays respects to elders past, present and emerging." Despite having sat through the ceremony many times before, this time Hanson stormed out of the chamber, yelling "No I don't, and I never will!"<ref name="9News-2022">{{cite news|url=https://www.9news.com.au/national/federal-politics-pauline-hanson-storms-out-senate-acknowledgement-of-country-aboriginal-flag/e5a07cc3-3960-4050-9a6e-c806ec973ab9|title=One Nation leader Pauline Hanson storms out of Senate during Acknowledgement of Country|publisher=Nine News|date=27 July 2022|access-date=3 August 2022|archive-date=3 August 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220803050029/https://www.9news.com.au/national/federal-politics-pauline-hanson-storms-out-senate-acknowledgement-of-country-aboriginal-flag/e5a07cc3-3960-4050-9a6e-c806ec973ab9|url-status=live}}</ref>

Hanson later stated that her opposition was to a motion that the [[Aboriginal flag]] and [[Torres Strait Islander flag]], which are both official [[flags of Australia]], should be raised inside the Senate chamber alongside the [[Australian flag]].<ref name="9News-2022" />

In 2023, Hanson criticised [[Pauline Hanson's One Nation – New South Wales|New South Wales One Nation]] leader [[Mark Latham]]'s homophobic tweet in response to openly [[gay]] fellow politician [[Alex Greenwich]], and called for him to apologise.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Alexandra |url=https://www.theage.com.au/politics/nsw/disgusting-pauline-hanson-slams-latham-s-homophobic-comments-20230330-p5cwsv.html |title='Disgusting': Pauline Hanson slams Latham's homophobic comments stories |website=www.theage.com.au |date=30 March 2023 |access-date=30 March 2023 |archive-date=30 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230330081138/https://www.theage.com.au/politics/nsw/disgusting-pauline-hanson-slams-latham-s-homophobic-comments-20230330-p5cwsv.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

On 24 November 2025, Hanson wore a burqa on the Senate floor in a scene similar to a stunt performed in 2017. This was after a bill to [[Burqa ban in Australia|ban the burqa]] failed. The entire Senate chamber was suspended for 90 minutes as a result of Hanson's action.<ref name="Truu-2025"/> She was formally [[censure]]d by the Senate the next day and was suspended for seven sitting days.<ref name="Butler-2025"/>

==Views==
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{{Far-right politics in Australia|People}}
Despite Hanson's repeated denials of charges of racism,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/state-election-2011/im-not-a-racist-says-pauline-hanson-20110308-1bn04.html |author1=AAP |first2=Glenda |last2=Kwek |name-list-style=and |title=I'm not a racist, says Pauline Hanson |access-date=18 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160807124338/http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/state-election-2011/im-not-a-racist-says-pauline-hanson-20110308-1bn04.html |archive-date=7 August 2016 |date=8 March 2011 }}</ref> her views on race, immigration, and Islam have been discussed widely in Australia. In her [[maiden speech]] to Parliament in 1996, Hanson appealed to economically disadvantaged white Australians by expressing dissatisfaction with government policy on indigenous affairs.<ref name="Hanson-1996"/> Following Hanson's maiden speech her views received negative coverage across Asian news media in 1996, and Deputy Prime Minister and Trade Minister [[Tim Fischer]] criticised the race "debate" initiated by Hanson, saying it was putting Australian exports and jobs at risk.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://www.jcu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/122189/jcudev_012863.pdf |author=Stephen W. Litvin |title=Tourism and Politics: The impact of Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party on Australian visitor arrivals |journal=The Journal of Tourism Studies |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=124–133 |date=May 2003 |access-date=4 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160222084052/https://www.jcu.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/122189/jcudev_012863.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2016}}</ref> Other ministers and state and territory leaders followed Fischer's lead in criticising Hanson.<ref name="Ward-1997a"/>

In 1998, the resurgence of popularity of Hanson was met with disappointment in Asian media.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.businessinsider.com.au/i-remember-how-pauline-hanson-sent-a-wave-of-anxiety-through-asia-20-years-ago-2016-7 |title=I remember how Pauline Hanson sent a wave of anxiety through Asia 20 years ago |author=Chris Pash |publisher=Businessinsider.com.au |date=4 July 2016 |access-date=21 August 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818045842/http://www.businessinsider.com.au/i-remember-how-pauline-hanson-sent-a-wave-of-anxiety-through-asia-20-years-ago-2016-7 |archive-date=18 August 2016}}</ref> Her resignation from politics in 2002 was met with support from academics, politicians and the press across Asia.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s458405.htm |first=Michael |last=Vincent |title=Reaction in Asia to Pauline Hanson's resignation |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=15 January 2002 |access-date=21 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160910194803/http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s458405.htm |archive-date=10 September 2016}}</ref> In 2004, Hanson appeared on the nationally televised [[ABC TV (Australian TV channel)|ABC TV]] interview show ''[[Enough Rope]]'', where her views were challenged.<ref name="ABC-2004"/>

Hanson is opposed to [[same-sex marriage]] and voted against it in the Senate.<ref>{{cite news |last= Gartrell |first= Adam |date= 24 September 2016 |title= Pauline Hanson tells same-sex couples where to go |url= https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/84627971/pauline-hanson-tells-samesex-couples-where-to-go |work= Stuff |access-date= 13 March 2025 |archive-date=13 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113220958/https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/84627971/pauline-hanson-tells-samesex-couples-where-to-go|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last= Bickers |first= Claire |date= 28 November 2017 |title= Pauline Hanson makes speech about same-sex marriage in Parliament |url= https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/pauline-hanson-makes-speech-about-samesex-marriage-in-parliament/news-story/e1620b08e7f2e4e86fcfdca2c624fa99 |work= news.com.au |access-date= 13 March 2025|archive-date=27 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171127230240/https://www.news.com.au/national/politics/pauline-hanson-makes-speech-about-samesex-marriage-in-parliament/news-story/e1620b08e7f2e4e86fcfdca2c624fa99 |url-status=live}}</ref>

===Policies===
====Immigration and multiculturalism====
In her maiden speech, Hanson proposed a drastic reduction in immigration with particular reference to immigrants from Asia. Hanson criticised the [[Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission]] (ATSIC).<ref>{{cite web|title=Revisit Pauline Hanson's infamous maiden speech {{!}} Guide|date=19 July 2016|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2016/07/19/revisit-pauline-hansons-infamous-maiden-speech|publisher=SBS Australia|access-date=13 August 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160815141929/http://www.sbs.com.au/guide/article/2016/07/19/revisit-pauline-hansons-infamous-maiden-speech|archive-date=15 August 2016}}</ref> Condemning [[Multiculturalism in Australia|multiculturalism]], One Nation has railed against government immigration and multicultural policies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.australianpolitics.com/parties/onenation/immigration-policy-98.shtml|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629143605/http://www.australianpolitics.com/parties/onenation/immigration-policy-98.shtml|url-status=dead|title=One Nation's Immigration, Population and Social Cohesion Policy 1998|archive-date=29 June 2011|access-date=9 January 2025}}</ref>

After Hanson was elected to Parliament in 1996, journalist [[Tracey Curro]] asked her on ''[[60 Minutes (Australian TV program)|60 Minutes]]'' whether she was [[xenophobic]]. Hanson replied, "Please explain?"<ref>{{cite web |title=60 Minutes: The Hanson Phenomenon |url=http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/the-hanson-phenomenon/xt9vsdn |date=13 October 1996 |access-date=25 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111222023519/http://video.au.msn.com/watch/video/the-hanson-phenomenon/xt9vsdn |archive-date=22 December 2011}}</ref> This response became a much-parodied [[catchphrase]] within Australian culture{{cn|date=November 2025}} and was included in the title of the 2016 [[SBS (Australian TV channel)|SBS]] documentary film ''[[Pauline Hanson: Please Explain!]]''.

In 2006, Hanson stated that African immigrants were bringing diseases into Australia and were of "no benefit to this country whatsoever". She also stated her opposition to Muslim immigration.<ref>{{cite news|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|url=http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/hanson-turns-on-diseased-africans/2006/12/06/1165081010724.html|title=Hanson turns on 'diseased' Africans|access-date=22 November 2010|date=6 December 2006|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100807011723/http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/hanson-turns-on-diseased-africans/2006/12/06/1165081010724.html|archive-date=7 August 2010}}</ref> Ten years after her maiden speech, its effects were still being discussed within a racism framework,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=1590|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228084318/http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=1590|url-status=dead|title=10 years after Pauline Hanson's maiden speech, still lessons to be learned (September 13, 2006)|archive-date=28 February 2009|website=www.ajn.com.au|accessdate=9 January 2025}}</ref> and were included in resources funded by the Queensland Government on "Combating racism in Queensland".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/history/timeline/period/Transforming-Multiculturalism/screen/9.Combating-racism-in-Queensland |title=Combating racism in Queensland |publisher=Multiculturalaustralia.edu.au |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100716111409/http://www.multiculturalaustralia.edu.au/history/timeline/period/Transforming-Multiculturalism/screen/9.Combating-racism-in-Queensland |archive-date=16 July 2010}}</ref> In 2007, Hanson publicly backed [[Kevin Andrews (Australian politician)|Kevin Andrews]], then [[Minister for Immigration and Citizenship (Australia)|Minister for Immigration]] under John Howard, in his views about African migrants and crime.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Heywood |first=Lachlan |url=http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22535794-2,00.html |title=Pauline Hanson backs Kevin Andrews on migrants |publisher=News.com.au |date=5 October 2007 |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090228093206/http://www.news.com.au/story/0%2C23599%2C22535794-2%2C00.html |archive-date=28 February 2009}}</ref>

Hanson opposes the [[White Australia policy]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/i-dont-support-the-white-australia-policy-hanson/video/ad89e6174ef7e9955740e45ff05d623f|title=I don't support the White Australia policy: Hanson|date=16 August 2018|work=Sky News Australia|access-date=22 November 2025|archive-date=2 December 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251202082506/https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/i-dont-support-the-white-australia-policy-hanson/video/ad89e6174ef7e9955740e45ff05d623f?nk=b4cfbb5d2d0344b41e692c6cd9abe9f9-1764663906|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2018 Hanson called for immigration numbers to be capped at 75,000 a year.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/senator-pauline-hanson-has-indicated-she-will-support-the-governments-income-tax-cuts-if-they-make-reductions-to-australias-immigration-intake/video/66551777236aa9baa4b175d956c942fb|title=Annual immigration intake should be capped at 75,000: Hanson|author=|date=10 May 2018|work=Sky News Australia|access-date=22 November 2025|archive-date=2 December 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251202083723/https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/politics/senator-pauline-hanson-has-indicated-she-will-support-the-governments-income-tax-cuts-if-they-make-reductions-to-australias-immigration-intake/video/66551777236aa9baa4b175d956c942fb?nk=c515d948632cd08068175ab6271910f0-1764664643|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2025, Hanson called for immigration to be cut to 130,000 a year.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/chris-kenny/bring-immigration-down-to-130000-a-year-pauline-hanson/video/46d332822e27689286375f37dee5b377|title=Bring immigration down to 130,000 a year': Pauline Hanson|author=|date=19 November 2025|work=Sky News Australia|access-date=22 November 2025|archive-date=2 December 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251202083331/https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/chris-kenny/bring-immigration-down-to-130000-a-year-pauline-hanson/video/46d332822e27689286375f37dee5b377?nk=7688cdba126f507bd3dcdf0c3f5c9234-1764664411|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.9news.com.au/national/pauline-hanson-addresses-immigration-rally-in-melbourne/809e4f84-688a-4406-a014-e09050b6456f|title=Hanson addresses immigration rally in Melbourne|date=30 November 2025|work=Nine News|access-date=2 December 2025|archive-date=2 December 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251202082930/https://www.9news.com.au/national/pauline-hanson-addresses-immigration-rally-in-melbourne/809e4f84-688a-4406-a014-e09050b6456f|url-status=live}}</ref>

====Islam====
In 2015, Hanson claimed that [[Halal certification in Australia]] was funding terrorism.<ref>{{cite news|title=How does Halal Certification work?|url=http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2015/s4215794.htm|access-date=12 August 2016|date=13 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160802115516/http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2015/s4215794.htm|archive-date=2 August 2016}}</ref> After the 2016 [[Orlando nightclub shooting]], Hanson called for a [[Muslim immigration ban|ban on Muslim immigration]] to Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |url= https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/racist-redhead-redneck-pauline-hanson-cops-spray-in-cairns-20160717-gq7e82.html |title= 'Racist redhead redneck': Pauline Hanson cops spray in Cairns |access-date= 2 August 2018 |date= 17 July 2016 |archive-date= 2 August 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20180802131954/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/racist-redhead-redneck-pauline-hanson-cops-spray-in-cairns-20160717-gq7e82.html |url-status= live }}</ref><!-- WP:RS needed; removed link to WP:SPS (Twitter, FB, WP)--><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-14/election-live-blog-june-14/7506754|title=Election live: Malcolm Turnbull pledges 'zero tolerance' for anti-gay preacher|last=Ross|first=Monique|date=14 June 2016|work=ABC News|access-date=14 June 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160613234602/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-14/election-live-blog-june-14/7506754|archive-date=13 June 2016}}</ref> The same year, Hanson announced several policies, including a ban on building new mosques until a [[royal commission]] into whether Islam is a religion or a political ideology has been held, and installing [[CCTV]] cameras in all existing mosques.<ref>Doherty, Ben. "Pauline Hanson Publicly Derided as 'racist Redneck' by Indigenous Activist." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 16 July 2016. Web. 8 August 2016. {{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/17/pauline-hanson-publicly-derided-as-racist-redneck-by-indigenous-activist |title=Pauline Hanson publicly derided as 'racist redneck' by Indigenous activist |access-date=18 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160718142319/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/jul/17/pauline-hanson-publicly-derided-as-racist-redneck-by-indigenous-activist |archive-date=18 July 2016 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=17 July 2016 |last1=Doherty |first1=Ben }}</ref> She has called for a [[Moratorium (law)|moratorium]] on accepting Muslim immigrants into Australia.<ref>Reynolds, Emma. "Hanson's Argument on Islam, Fact Checked." News.com.au. N.p., 18 July 2016. Web. 8 August 2016. {{cite news |url=http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/pauline-hansons-claims-on-islam-broken-down/news-story/d7ad1647435a81cd81a6a1f7c7b92229 |title=Hanson's argument on Islam, fact checked |newspaper=News.com.au |access-date=18 August 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160818090113/http://www.news.com.au/national/politics/pauline-hansons-claims-on-islam-broken-down/news-story/d7ad1647435a81cd81a6a1f7c7b92229 |archive-date=18 August 2016 |date=19 July 2016 |last1=Reynolds |first1=Emma }}</ref> In her 2016 maiden speech in the Senate, she said that "We are in danger of being swamped by Muslims who bear a culture and ideology that is incompatible with our own" and that they should "[[Go back to where you came from|go back to where [they] came from]]", and called for banning Muslim migration.<ref name="Norman-2016"/> The speech prompted a walkout by Senate members of the [[Australian Greens]].<ref name="Norman-2016">{{cite news |url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-14/one-nation-senator-pauline-hanson-makes-first-speech-to-senate/7845150 |title=Pauline Hanson calls for Muslim immigration ban in maiden speech to Senate |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=14 September 2016 |access-date=14 March 2019|url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161113155531/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-14/one-nation-senator-pauline-hanson-makes-first-speech-to-senate/7845150 |archive-date=13 November 2016 |first=Jane |last=Norman}}</ref>

After the [[January 2017 Melbourne car attack]], Hanson repeated her stance on banning Muslims from entering Australia. In a live interview after the attack, she stated: "all terrorist attacks in this country have been by Muslims", on which she was corrected by a journalist.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Butler|first=Josh|date=24 January 2017|title=How The Bourke Street Rampage Was Quickly Claimed To Be 'Islamic Terrorism'|language=en-AU|work=Huffington Post|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/01/23/how-the-bourke-street-rampage-was-quickly-claimed-to-be-islamic_a_21660437/|access-date=6 May 2020|archive-date=23 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023223013/https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/01/23/how-the-bourke-street-rampage-was-quickly-claimed-to-be-islamic_a_21660437/|url-status=live}}</ref> In response, the [[Islamic Council of Victoria]] asked for a public apology for Hanson's statement.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pauline Hanson Should Apologise For Her Irresponsible Statements |url=https://www.icv.org.au/pauline-hanson-irresponsible-statements/ |date=22 January 2017 |publisher=Islamic Council of Victoria |access-date=13 March 2019 |archive-date=14 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190314034214/http://www.icv.org.au/pauline-hanson-irresponsible-statements/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On 24 March 2017, after the [[2017 Westminster attack]], Hanson made an announcement in a video posted to social media, holding up a piece of paper with her own proposed hash tag “#Pray4MuslimBan”. “That is how you solve the problem, put a ban on it and then let’s deal with the issues here”, she said.<ref>{{Cite web|title='Put a ban on it': Pauline Hanson calls for Muslim faith to be banned|work=SBS News |url=https://www.sbs.com.au/news/put-a-ban-on-it-pauline-hanson-calls-for-muslim-faith-to-be-banned|access-date=26 January 2021|language=en|archive-date=31 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131112839/https://www.sbs.com.au/news/put-a-ban-on-it-pauline-hanson-calls-for-muslim-faith-to-be-banned|url-status=live}}</ref>

On 22 June 2017, Hanson moved a motion in the [[Australian Senate|Senate]] calling on the government to respond to the [[Halal certification in Australia|Halal inquiry]]. The motion was passed.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-senator-pauline-hanson-halal-label-food-muslim-one-nation-islam-slaughter-certified-a7810776.html|title=Australia politician wins backing for clearer halal labelling on food|website=[[Independent.co.uk]]|date=27 June 2017|access-date=9 July 2022|archive-date=9 July 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709120514/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-senator-pauline-hanson-halal-label-food-muslim-one-nation-islam-slaughter-certified-a7810776.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Hansard |jurisdiction=Commonwealth of Australia |title=Motions - Food Certification |url=http://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansards/d8168954-ba68-4fca-9854-908971f0f4c9/&sid=0063 |house=House of Representatives |date=22 June 2017 |speaker=Pauline Hanson |position=Senator for Queensland }} {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524201338/https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Hansard/Hansard_Display?bid=chamber/hansards/d8168954-ba68-4fca-9854-908971f0f4c9/&sid=0063 |date=24 May 2022 }}</ref>

On 17 August 2017, Hanson wore a [[burqa]] onto the floor of the [[Australian Senate]] in a move to rally support for a national ban of the religious attire, citing "national security" concerns.<ref name="Murphy-2017">{{Cite news|last=Murphy|first=Katharine|date=17 August 2017|title=Pauline Hanson wears burqa in Australian Senate while calling for ban|language=en-GB|edition=Australia|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/17/pauline-hanson-wears-burqa-in-australian-senate-while-calling-for-ban|access-date=6 May 2020|archive-date=15 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200615172558/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/aug/17/pauline-hanson-wears-burqa-in-australian-senate-while-calling-for-ban|url-status=live}}</ref> The move quickly became widely condemned by [[Australian Labor Party|Labor]], the [[Australian Greens|Greens]] and the [[Liberal Party of Australia|Liberal Party]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pauline Hanson wears burka to Question Time in the Senate, slammed by George Brandis|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-17/pauline-hanson-wears-burka-to-question-time-in-the-senate/8816886|last1=Belot|first1=Henry|last2=Yaxley|first2=Louise|date=17 August 2017|website=ABC News|language=en-AU|access-date=6 May 2020|archive-date=11 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111211227/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-17/pauline-hanson-wears-burka-to-question-time-in-the-senate/8816886|url-status=live}}</ref> In response, the Attorney-General [[George Brandis]], who is tasked with giving advice on national security legislation, gave an "emotional" speech calling Hanson's stunt "an appalling thing to do" and advised Hanson "to be very very careful of the offense you may do to the religious sensibilities of other Australians", to which both Labor and Greens' Senators gave a standing ovation.<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/XExggl6Q-vo Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20170820144759/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XExggl6Q-vo Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{Citation|title=George Brandis slams Pauline Hanson for wearing a burka to Senate Question Time|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XExggl6Q-vo|date=17 August 2017|publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]]|language=en|access-date=6 May 2020}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref name="Murphy-2017" />

In September 2022, Hanson tweeted that Greens senator [[Mehreen Faruqi]] should "piss off back to Pakistan". This came after Faruqi was slammed over an allegedly "appalling" tweet about [[Queen Elizabeth II]] after [[Death and state funeral of Elizabeth II|her death]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Butler |first=Josh |date=6 October 2022 |title=Mehreen Faruqi's racism complaint over Pauline Hanson tweet accepted by Human Rights Commission |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/07/mehreen-faruqis-racism-complaint-over-pauline-hanson-tweet-accepted-by-human-rights-commission |access-date=30 October 2022 |website=The Guardian |language=en |archive-date=30 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221030104102/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/oct/07/mehreen-faruqis-racism-complaint-over-pauline-hanson-tweet-accepted-by-human-rights-commission |url-status=live }}</ref> Subsequently, Faruqi decided to launch court proceedings against Hanson for "breaching section 18C of the ''[[Racial Discrimination Act 1975]]''".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Haydar |first=Nour |date=3 May 2023 |title=Mehreen Faruqi launches court action against Pauline Hanson for 'insulting and humiliating' tweet |work=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-03/mehreen-faruqi-pauline-hanson-legal-action-federal-court/102298326 |access-date=15 August 2023 |archive-date=15 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230815040522/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-03/mehreen-faruqi-pauline-hanson-legal-action-federal-court/102298326 |url-status=live }}</ref> On 1 November 2024, it was reported that [[Federal Court of Australia]] judge Angus Stewart had ruled that Hanson's tweet was an "angry personal attack", unconnected with the issues Faruqi raised, and was therefore "anti-Muslim or [[Islamophobic]]". Hanson was ordered to delete the tweet and Faruqi was awarded costs for the entire proceedings. Hanson said that she would appeal the decision.<ref>{{cite web |last1=McKinnell |first1=Jamie |last2=Gregory |first2=Xanthe |title=Federal Court finds Pauline Hanson racially discriminated against Mehreen Faruqi in 'angry personal attack' tweet |website=ABC News |date=1 November 2024 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-01/pauline-hanson-mehreen-faruqi-racial-tweet-verdict/104547814 |access-date=2 November 2024 |archive-date=1 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241101085457/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-01/pauline-hanson-mehreen-faruqi-racial-tweet-verdict/104547814 |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2025|11|post=,}} along with Sue Chrysanthou, Hanson is appealing the judgement.<ref>{{cite news |author=[[Australian Associated Press]] |access-date=25 November 2025 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/17/pauline-hansons-comments-about-mehreen-faruqi-unfit-for-an-afternoon-tea-but-were-not-racist-court-told-ntwnfb |date=17 November 2025 |title=Pauline Hanson's comments about Mehreen Faruqi unfit for 'an afternoon tea' but were not racist, court told |work=[[Guardian Australia|The Guardian]] |url-status=live |archive-date=25 November 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251125021707/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/nov/17/pauline-hansons-comments-about-mehreen-faruqi-unfit-for-an-afternoon-tea-but-were-not-racist-court-told-ntwnfb}}</ref>

In November 2025, Hanson wore a burqa on the Senate floor in a scene similar to a stunt performed in 2017. This was after a bill to [[Burqa ban in Australia|ban the burqa]] failed. The entire Senate chamber was suspended for 90 minutes as a result of Hanson's action.<ref name="Truu-2025">{{cite news |access-date=25 November 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251125012453/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-24/senate-suspended-after-pauline-hansons-burka-stunt/106047124 |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11-24/senate-suspended-after-pauline-hansons-burka-stunt/106047124 |url-status=live |archive-date=25 November 2025 |date=24 November 2025 |publisher=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |first=Maani |last=Truu |title=Senate shut down for 1.5 hours after Pauline Hanson's burka stunt}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |access-date=2 December 2025 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz94pdkzqvwo |title=Australia senator suspended after burka stunt in parliament |url-status=live |archive-date=2 December 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20251202085526/https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz94pdkzqvwo |date=24 November 2025 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref>

===Public opinion===
After her election in 1996, an estimated 10,000 people marched in protest against racism in Melbourne, and other protests followed, while Anglican and Catholic church leaders warned that the controversy threatened the stability of Australia's multicultural society. Also repudiating Hanson's views on immigration and multiculturalism were Victorian premier [[Jeff Kennett]], the Queensland [[National Party of Australia|National]] senator [[Ron Boswell]], [[Ronald Wilson]] and former Prime Minister [[Paul Keating]].<ref name="Ward-1997a" /> At the 1997 annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association (ANZCA) at [[La Trobe University]], a paper was presented with the title "Phenomena and Epiphenomena: is Pauline Hanson racist?".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:120055 |title=Phenomena and Epiphenomena: is Pauline Hanson racist? |publisher=Espace.library.uq.edu.au |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717022204/http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:120055 |archive-date=17 July 2011}}</ref> In 1998, social commentator [[Keith Suter]] argued that Hanson's views were better understood as an angry response to [[globalisation]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_development/archive/1998_3/australia_the_media_and_the_politics_of_anger |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070814105506/http://www.wacc.org.uk/wacc/publications/media_development/archive/1998_3/australia_the_media_and_the_politics_of_anger |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 August 2007 |title=Australia, the media and the politics of anger |publisher=Wacc.org.uk |date=March 1998 |access-date=9 July 2010}}</ref> A [[Opinion poll|poll]] in ''[[The Bulletin (Australian periodical)|The Bulletin]]'' magazine at this time suggested that if Hanson formed a political party, it would win 18 percent of the vote. After months of silence, then-Prime Minister John Howard and Opposition Leader [[Kim Beazley]] proposed a bipartisan motion against racial discrimination and reaffirming support for a nondiscriminatory immigration policy. The motion was carried on the voices.<ref name="Ward-1997a"/>

Hanson did not relent in articulating her views and continued to address public meetings around Australia. The [[League of Rights]] offered financial and organisational support for her campaign against Asian immigration, and in December she announced she was considering forming a political party to contest the next election.<ref name="Ward-1997a"/> [[Alexander Downer]], minister for foreign affairs under [[John Howard]], issued a media release calling on Hanson, [[David Oldfield (politician)|David Oldfield]] and [[David Ettridge]] to distance themselves from racist slurs.<ref>[http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/releases/1998/fa110b_98.html foreignminister.gov.au] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720210753/http://www.foreignminister.gov.au/releases/1998/fa110b_98.html |date=20 July 2008 }} Hanson Must Disassociate Herself From Racist Slurs</ref> In 2000, the [[University of New South Wales Press|University of NSW Press]] published the book ''Race, Colour and Identity in Australia and New Zealand'',<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3pHjwge_d4MC&q=pauline+hanson+racism+asian+media&pg=PA256 |title=Race, colour, and identity in ... – Google Books |date=April 2000 |access-date=9 July 2010 |isbn=978-0-86840-538-4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305044341/https://books.google.com/books?id=3pHjwge_d4MC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=pauline+hanson+racism+asian+media |archive-date=5 March 2018 |last1=Docker |first1=John |last2=Fischer |first2=Gerhard |publisher=UNSW Press }}</ref> which identified Hanson as a central figure in the [[Racism in Australia|"racism debate" in Australia]] of the 1990s, noting that senior Australian academics such as [[Jon Stratton]], [[Ghassan Hage]] and Andrew Jakubowicz had explored Hanson's significance in an international as well as national context.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3pHjwge_d4MC&q=pauline+hanson+racism+asian+media&pg=PA256 |title=The Racism Debate |date=April 2000 |access-date=9 July 2010 |isbn=978-0-86840-538-4 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305044341/https://books.google.com/books?id=3pHjwge_d4MC&pg=PA256&lpg=PA256&dq=pauline+hanson+racism+asian+media |archive-date=5 March 2018 |last1=Docker |first1=John |last2=Fischer |first2=Gerhard |publisher=UNSW Press }}</ref>

Academics, commentators and political analysts have continued to discuss Hanson's legacy and impact upon Australian politics since her rise to prominence in the 1990s and her political comeback in 2016. [[Milton Osborne]] noted that public opinion research indicated Hanson's initial support in the 1990s was not necessarily motivated by racist or anti-immigration sentiments, but instead from voters concerned about globalisation and unemployment.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Osborne |first1=Milton |title=AUSTRALIA'S ELECTION YEAR: Hansonism and the Asian Financial Crisis |journal=Southeast Asian Affairs |date=1999 |pages=52–64|doi=10.1355/SEAA99D |doi-broken-date=12 July 2025 }}</ref> In 2019, [[Hans-Georg Betz]] identified Hanson as among the first populist politicians to mobilize a public following by targeting "the intellectual elite" in their messages, and that in the twentyfirst century, with "today’s army of self-styled commentators and pundits summarily dismissing radical right-wing populist voters as uncouth, uneducated plebeians intellectually incapable of understanding the blessings of progressive identity politics, Hanson’s anti-elite rhetoric anno 1996 proved remarkably prescient, if rather tame".<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.fairobserver.com/region/asia_pacific/pauline-hanson-one-nation-australia-populist-politics-news-78645/|title=Australia's Own Brand of Radical Populism|date=20 June 2019|access-date=20 December 2020|archive-date=25 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201125235836/https://www.fairobserver.com/region/asia_pacific/pauline-hanson-one-nation-australia-populist-politics-news-78645/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=15 January 2021|title=FKN LOL: Someone redirected Pauline Hanson's website to The Refugee Council of Australia|url=https://happymag.tv/pauline-hanson-website-redirects-to-refugee-council-of-australia/|access-date=15 January 2021|website=Happy Mag|language=en-US|archive-date=15 January 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115005209/https://happymag.tv/pauline-hanson-website-redirects-to-refugee-council-of-australia/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Personal life==
===Relationships and children===
Hanson was first married to Walter Zagorski.{{cn|date=May 2025}}

In 1980, Hanson (then Pauline Zagorski) married Mark Hanson, a divorced [[tradesman]] working on the [[Gold Coast, Queensland|Gold Coast]] in [[Queensland]]. They honeymooned in South-East Asia. Mark Hanson had a daughter from his previous marriage, and he later had two children with Hanson: Adam and Lee. Together they established a trades and construction business, in which Hanson was in charge of the [[office administration|administrative]] and [[bookkeeping]] work, and would on occasion assist her husband on more practical work.  Hanson has written about her difficult marriage, where alcohol and [[domestic violence]] impacted her family.  They divorced in 1987.<ref name="Leser-2014">{{cite news |url=http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/gw-classics/pauline-hansons-bitter-harvest-20140828-109dbf.html |title=Pauline Hanson's bitter harvest |first=David |last=Leser |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=17 September 2014 |orig-date=30 November 1996 |access-date=4 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160710001038/http://www.smh.com.au/good-weekend/gw-classics/pauline-hansons-bitter-harvest-20140828-109dbf.html |archive-date=10 July 2016}}</ref> Lee was a candidate for One Nation in the [[2025 Australian federal election]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Duggan |first1=Josh |title=Lee Hanson, daughter of Pauline Hanson, hoping for Tasmanian senate spot for One Nation |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-25/lee-hanson-pauline-hanson-daughter-one-nation-candidate/105197404 |url-status=live |archive-date=25 April 2025 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250425003715/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-25/lee-hanson-pauline-hanson-daughter-one-nation-candidate/105197404 |access-date=25 April 2025 |publisher=ABC News |date=25 April 2025 |language=en-AU}}</ref>

In 1988, Hanson began a relationship with Morrie Marsden, a businessman in [[Queensland]]. Together, they established a [[catering service]] under the holding company Marsden Hanson Pty Ltd, and operated from their [[fish and chips]] store, Marsden's Seafood, in [[Silkstone, Queensland]]. Marsden worked on Hanson's [[1996 Australian federal election|campaign for political office]] in the [[Division of Oxley|seat of Oxley]] in 1996, and was a member of her staff after her election. When Hanson began to receive national and international media attention for her views, Marsden left the relationship. Hanson had begun a relationship with Ipswich man Rick Gluyas in 1994. Gluyas encouraged her to run as a candidate in the 1994 Ipswich City Council election, in which he also ran. Both were elected. Hanson and Gluyas ended their relationship some time after this, with Hanson retaining the home and property they had owned jointly at Coleyville, near Ipswich.<ref name="Leser-2014"/><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theage.com.au/national/refreshed-and-far-richer-hanson-eyes-a-comeback-20020816-gduhz2.html|title=Refreshed, and far richer, Hanson eyes a comeback|date=16 August 2002|website=The Age|access-date=22 March 2019|archive-date=22 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322043132/https://www.theage.com.au/national/refreshed-and-far-richer-hanson-eyes-a-comeback-20020816-gduhz2.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 1996, Hanson began a relationship with [[David Oldfield (politician)|David Oldfield]]. In 2000, all of Hanson's relations with Oldfield ended when he was dismissed from Pauline Hanson's One Nation.<ref name="Hurst-2010">{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/pauline-hansons-life-and-times-as-told-by-the-gossip-mags-20100218-oiok.html|title=Pauline Hanson's life and times, as told by the gossip mags|first=Daniel|last=Hurst|date=18 February 2010|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=22 March 2019|archive-date=22 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322043131/https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/pauline-hansons-life-and-times-as-told-by-the-gossip-mags-20100218-oiok.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2005, Hanson began a relationship with Chris Callaghan, a [[country music]] singer and political activist. He wrote and composed the song "The Australian Way of Life", which was used in Hanson's [[2007 Australian federal election|2007 campaign]] for the [[Australian Senate]], under her new [[Pauline's United Australia Party|United Australia Party]]. In 2007, Hanson revealed that she and Callaghan were engaged. However, in 2008, Hanson broke off the relationship.<ref name="Hurst-2010"/>

In 2011, while [[2011 New South Wales state election|campaigning]] for the [[New South Wales Legislative Council]], Hanson began a relationship with [[property developer]] and real estate agent Tony Nyquist.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celeb-news/pauline-hanson-meet-my-new-man-22406|title=Pauline Hanson: Meet my new man!|website=Now To Love|date=20 November 2011 |access-date=22 March 2019|archive-date=22 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322043132/https://www.nowtolove.com.au/celebrity/celeb-news/pauline-hanson-meet-my-new-man-22406|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/meet-brian-burston-one-nations-power-behind-the-throne-20160805-gqm6cx.html|title=Meet Brian Burston: One Nation's power behind the throne|first=Damien|last=Murphy|date=6 August 2016|website=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=22 March 2019|archive-date=22 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322043130/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/meet-brian-burston-one-nations-power-behind-the-throne-20160805-gqm6cx.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===Fraud conviction and reversal===

A 1999 civil suit reached the [[Queensland Court of Appeal]] in 2000 involving disgruntled former One Nation member Terry Sharples and led to a finding of fraud when registering One Nation as a political party,<ref>{{cite AustLII|QCA|23|2000|litigants=Sharples v O'Shea & Hanson |courtname=auto}}.</ref> 

On 20 August 2003, a jury in the [[District Court of Queensland]] convicted Hanson and [[David Ettridge]] of [[electoral fraud]]. Both Hanson and Ettridge were sentenced to three years imprisonment for falsely claiming that 500 members of the Pauline Hanson Support Movement were members of the political organisation Pauline Hanson's One Nation to register that organisation in Queensland as a political party and apply for electoral funding. Because the registration was found to be unlawful, Hanson's receipt of electoral funding worth $498,637 resulted in two further convictions for dishonestly obtaining property, each with three-year sentences, to run concurrently with the first. The sentence was widely criticised in the media, and by some politicians, including the prime minister, [[John Howard]], and Liberal politician [[Bronwyn Bishop]], as being too harsh.<ref>Mackenzie, Geraldine. "The Hanson trial: please explain?", ''Southern Cross University Law Review, Vol. 8'', 2004, pp. 162–176. {{ISSN|1329-3737}}.</ref><ref name="QCA-2003"/> 

On 6 November 2003, delivering judgment the day after hearing the appeal, the [[Queensland Court of Appeal]] quashed all of Hanson and Ettridge's convictions. Hanson, having spent 11 weeks in jail, was immediately released along with Ettridge.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2003/s984941.htm |title=Hanson release causes upheaval in Qld |work=Lateline, ABC Television |publisher=[[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]] |date=7 November 2003 |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511184031/http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2003/s984941.htm |archive-date=11 May 2011}}</ref> The court's unanimous decision was that the evidence did not support a conclusion [[beyond reasonable doubt]] that the people on the list were not members of the Pauline Hanson's One Nation party and that Hanson and Ettridge knew this when the application to register the party was submitted. Accordingly, the convictions regarding registration were quashed. The convictions regarding funding, which depended on the same facts, were also quashed.<ref name="QCA-2003">{{cite AustLII|QCA|488|2003|litigants=R v Hanson; R v Ettridge |date=6 November 2003 |courtname=auto}}.</ref>

===Television appearances===
In 2004, Hanson appeared in multiple television programs such as ''[[Dancing with the Stars (Australian TV series)|Dancing with the Stars]]'', ''[[Enough Rope]]'', ''[[Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? (Australian game show)|Who Wants to Be a Millionaire]]'', and ''[[This Is Your Life (Australian TV series)|This is Your Life]]''.<ref>Goldsworthy, Kerryn. This is your afterlife [Pauline Hanson's post-politics rebirth as TVs sweetheart.] Monthly, The, Sept 2005: 16–17.  {{ISSN|1832-3421}}.</ref>

In 2011, Hanson was a contestant on ''[[The Celebrity Apprentice]]''.<ref>[http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/pauline-hanson-says-she-felt-betrayed-and-set-up-after-being-fired-from-celebrity-apprentice/story-e6frfmyi-1226196055168 Pauline Hanson says she felt betrayed and set up after being fired from Celebrity Apprentice] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140325171904/http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/pauline-hanson-says-she-felt-betrayed-and-set-up-after-being-fired-from-celebrity-apprentice/story-e6frfmyi-1226196055168 |date=25 March 2014 }} at [[news.com.au]], 15 November 2011. Retrieved 6 August 2016</ref>

Following her successful relaunch of Pauline Hanson's One Nation party at the [[2016 Australian federal election#Senate|2016 federal Senate election]], with four senators elected, including herself, a documentary was made by the [[Special Broadcasting Service]] (SBS) entitled ''[[Pauline Hanson: Please Explain!]]''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Watch now: Pauline Hanson: Please Explain!|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/mandarin/en/article/2016/08/01/watch-now-pauline-hanson-please-explain|website=SBS|date=August 2016 |access-date=8 August 2016|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160809001147/http://www.sbs.com.au/yourlanguage/mandarin/en/article/2016/08/01/watch-now-pauline-hanson-please-explain|archive-date=9 August 2016}}</ref>{{primary source inline|date=November 2025}}

===Sexual harassment allegations===
On 14 February 2019, Hanson was accused of sexually harassing fellow senator [[Brian Burston]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.9news.com.au/2019/02/14/00/12/pauline-hanson-brian-burston-sexual-harassment-claims|title=Pauline Hanson accused of sexually harassing former One Nation Senator|publisher=NineNews|date=14 February 2019|access-date=13 February 2019|archive-date=13 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213231254/https://www.9news.com.au/2019/02/14/00/12/pauline-hanson-brian-burston-sexual-harassment-claims|url-status=live}}</ref> Burston claimed that Hanson "rubbed her fingers up my spine" in an incident that occurred in 1998, and propositioned him after he was elected in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/2186063/rubbed-her-fingers-my-spine-anti-asian-australian-politician|title='Rubbed her fingers up my spine': anti-Asian Australian politician Pauline Hanson made unwanted sexual advances during anthem, claims senate colleague Brian Burston|work=South China Morning Post|date=14 February 2019|access-date=13 February 2019|archive-date=13 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190213215605/https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/australasia/article/2186063/rubbed-her-fingers-my-spine-anti-asian-australian-politician|url-status=live}}</ref> In court it was revealed that Hanson also sent a "malicious" text message to Burston's wife claiming he was infatuated with another staff member.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/06/defamation-trial-hears-malicious-text-message-pauline-hanson-sent-former-senators-wife | title=Defamation trial hears 'malicious' text message Pauline Hanson sent former senator's wife | website=[[TheGuardian.com]] | date=6 June 2022 | access-date=8 June 2022 | archive-date=8 June 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220608081210/https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2022/jun/06/defamation-trial-hears-malicious-text-message-pauline-hanson-sent-former-senators-wife | url-status=live }}</ref> Hanson denied the claims of sexual harassment.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-13/burston-levels-sexual-harassment-allegations-at-pauline-hanson/10809710|title=Brian Burston levels sexual harassment allegations at One Nation leader Pauline Hanson|publisher=ABC.net|access-date=14 February 2019|date=14 February 2019|archive-date=14 February 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214025534/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-13/burston-levels-sexual-harassment-allegations-at-pauline-hanson/10809710|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Properties and residence ===
{{as of |2010}}, Hanson was living on a large property in [[Beaudesert, Queensland]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/buyers-intrigued-by-paulines-paradise-20100215-o1mk.html |title=Buyers intrigued by Pauline's paradise |access-date=6 December 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911115401/https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/buyers-intrigued-by-paulines-paradise-20100215-o1mk.html |archive-date=11 September 2017 |date=15 February 2010 }}</ref> 

She purchased an investment property in [[Maitland, New South Wales]], in 2012, selling it in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Macken |first=Lucy |date=8 May 2023 |title=Pauline Hanson cashes in on Maitland pub for $1.1 million |url=https://www.smh.com.au/property/news/pauline-hanson-cashes-in-on-maitland-pub-for-1-1-million-20230508-p5d6mk.html |access-date=9 May 2023 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en |archive-date=9 May 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230509101417/https://www.smh.com.au/property/news/pauline-hanson-cashes-in-on-maitland-pub-for-1-1-million-20230508-p5d6mk.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Published books==
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Soon after her election to Parliament, Hanson's book ''Pauline Hanson{{mdash}}the Truth: on Asian immigration, the Aboriginal question, the gun debate and the future of Australia'' was published. In it she makes claims of [[Cannibalism in Oceania|Aboriginal cannibalism]], in particular that Aboriginal women ate their babies and tribes cannibalised their members. Hanson told the media that the reason for these claims of cannibalism was to "demonstrate the savagery of Aboriginal society".<ref>{{Cite web |last=McGlade |first=Hannah |title=The International Prohibition of Racist Organisations: An Australian Perspective |url=http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MurUEJL/2000/11.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170516105651/http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/MurUEJL/2000/11.html |archive-date=16 May 2017}} [2000] Murdoch University Electronic Journal of Law 11.</ref>

[[David Ettridge]], the One Nation party director, said that the book's claims were intended to correct "misconceptions" about [[Aboriginal history]]. These alleged misconceptions were said to be relevant to modern-day Aboriginal welfare funding. He asserted that "the suggestion that we should be feeling some concern for modern day Aborigines for suffering in the past is balanced a bit by the alternative view of whether you can feel sympathy for people who eat their babies".<ref>Murdoch University [http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v7n1/mcglade71_text.html ''The International Prohibition Of Racist Organisations: An Australian Perspective''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010064054/http://www.murdoch.edu.au/elaw/issues/v7n1/mcglade71_text.html |date=10 October 2009 }}</ref> The book predicted that in 2050 Australia would have a [[lesbian]] president of Chinese-Indian background called Poona Li Hung who would be a [[cyborg]].<ref>Books Google [https://books.google.com/books?id=qBVh5gVTlC4C&dq=Pauline+Hanson+Poona&pg=PA161 Subjectivity By Nick Mansfield, The Subject and Technology Page 161] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180305044341/https://books.google.com/books?id=qBVh5gVTlC4C&pg=PA161&lpg=PA161&dq=Pauline+Hanson+Poona&source=bl&ots=6cuQFWguRg&sig=P3Baa1avS8tMipDj3KoMZlV7KH0&hl=en&ei=v9PDSejXF5io6wORs73MBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=8&ct=result |date=5 March 2018 }}</ref> In 2004, Hanson said that the book was "[[Ghostwriter|written by some other people who actually put my name to it]]" and that, while she held the copyright in the book, she was unaware that much of the material was being published under her name.<ref name="ABC-2004"/>

In March 2007, Hanson published her autobiography, ''Untamed and Unashamed''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2007/1884336.htm |title=Radio National Breakfast – 29&nbsp;March 2007 – Pauline Hanson |publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |date=29 March 2007 |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110511184038/http://www.abc.net.au/rn/breakfast/stories/2007/1884336.htm |archive-date=11 May 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an000041167021 |title=Libraries Australia – Untamed & unashamed : time to explain / Pauline Hanson |publisher=Nla.gov.au |access-date=9 July 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090305072526/http://nla.gov.au/anbd.bib-an000041167021 |archive-date=5 March 2009}}</ref>

In 2018, Hanson and [[Tony Abbott]] launched a collection of Hanson's speeches, ''Pauline: In Her Own Words'', compiled by journalist Tom Ravlic.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Robin|first1=Myriam|title=Hanson book author Tom Ravlic has a curious history|url=http://www.afr.com/brand/rear-window/hanson-book-author-tom-ravlic-has-a-curious-history-20180327-h0y0h1|access-date=5 April 2018|work=[[Australian Financial Review]]|date=27 March 2018|archive-date=5 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405090528/http://www.afr.com/brand/rear-window/hanson-book-author-tom-ravlic-has-a-curious-history-20180327-h0y0h1|url-status=live}}</ref>

==In art==

[[File:Clown nation 2020.jpg|thumb|upright=.8|"Clown Nation", by [[Karla Dickens]] ]]

Aboriginal artist [[Karla Dickens]] represented Hanson in a collage entitled "Clown Nation" which included Hanson's photograph, in a series called ''A Dickensian Country Show''. It was shown in the 2020 [[Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art]] at the [[Art Gallery of South Australia]], an exhibition titled "Monster Theatres".<ref>{{cite web | first=Dee | last=Jefferson | title=The monsters under the bed: Exhibition reveals our worst nightmares are those closest to home | website=ABC News | date=5 April 2020 | url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-05/adelaide-biennial-monster-theatres-australian-art-taps-into-fear/12118986 | access-date=18 July 2022 | archive-date=24 April 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424183851/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-04-05/adelaide-biennial-monster-theatres-australian-art-taps-into-fear/12118986 | url-status=live }}</ref>
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== Further reading ==
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* Pal Ahluwalia and Greg McCarthy, (1998) "'Political Correctness': Pauline Hanson and the Construction of Australian Identity." ''Australian Journal of Public Administration'' 57#3 (1998): 79–85.
* Scott Balson (2000), ''Inside One Nation. The inside story on a people's party born to fail'', Interactive Presentations, Mt Crosby News (Queensland), {{ISBN|0-9577415-2-9}}
* Helen J Dodd (1997), ''Pauline. The Hanson Phenomenon'', Boolarong Press, Moorooka (Queensland), {{ISBN|0-646-33217-1}}
* David Ettridge (2004), ''Consider Your Verdict'', New Holland Publishers, Frenchs Forest (New South Wales) {{ISBN|1-74110-232-4}}
* Bligh Grant (ed.) (1997), ''Pauline Hanson. One Nation and Australian Politics'', University of New England Press, Armidale (NSW), {{ISBN|1-875821-38-4}}
* Pauline Hanson; Tom Ravlic (2018), ''Pauline: In Her Own Words'', Wilkinson Publishing, Melbourne (Victoria), {{ISBN|978-1-925642-38-4}}
* Pauline Hanson (2007), ''Untamed and Unashamed&nbsp;– Pauline Hanson's autobiography'', Jo–Jo Publishing, Docklands (Victoria) {{ISBN|978-0-9802836-2-4}}
* [[James Jupp]] (1998), 'Populism in the land of Oz,' in ''[[Meanjin]]'', Vol.57, No.4, pp.&nbsp;740–747
* [[Margo Kingston]] (1999), ''Off the Rails. The Pauline Hanson Trip'', Allen and Unwin, St Leonards (NSW) {{ISBN|1-86508-159-0}}
* Michael Leach, Geoffrey Stokes, Ian Ward (eds.) (2000), ''The Rise and Fall of One Nation'', University of Queensland Press, St Lucia (Queensland) {{ISBN|0-7022-3136-3}}
* George J Merritt (1997), ''Pauline Hanson. The Truth'', St George Publications, Parkholme (South Australia), {{ISBN|0-646-32012-2}}
* John Pasquarelli (1998), ''The Pauline Hanson Story by the Man Who Knows'', New Holland Publishers, Frenchs Forest (NSW), {{ISBN|1-86436-341-X}}
*{{cite journal|last1=Deutchman|first1=Iva|last2=Ellison|first2=Anne|title=When Feminists Don't Fit The Case of Pauline Hanson|journal=[[International Feminist Journal of Politics]]|date=January 2004|volume=6|issue=1|pages=29–52|doi=10.1080/1461674032000165923|s2cid=145125144}}
*{{cite journal|last1=Hill|first1=Lisa|title=Pauline Hanson, free speech and reconciliation|journal=Journal of Australian Studies|date=January 1998|volume=22|issue=57|pages=10–22|doi=10.1080/14443059809387376|hdl=2440/40655|url=https://www.api-network.com/main/pdf/scholars/jas57_hill.pdf|hdl-access=free|access-date=20 April 2018|archive-date=13 November 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221113142808/https://www.api-network.com/main/pdf/scholars/jas57_hill.pdf|url-status=live}}
*{{cite journal|last1=Shoemaker|first1=Adam|title='Don't cry for me, Diamantina': An alternative reading of Pauline Hanson|journal=Journal of Australian Studies|date=18 May 2009|volume=21|issue=53|pages=20–28|doi=10.1080/14443059709387313}}
*{{cite book|last=Hage|first=Ghassan|title=White Nation: Fantasies of White Supremacy in a Multicultural Society|year=2000|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415929233|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XCNVkK2pzQAC|access-date=7 November 2020|archive-date=21 February 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240221022313/https://books.google.com/books?id=XCNVkK2pzQAC|url-status=live}}
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