From Newsgroup: aus.politics

*Is 'nastiness' backfiring on Pauline Hanson?*

/ABC News (Australia), 2.62m subscribers, 17 Sept 2026 ABC News Daily/ <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mPaNSdplOA>

"Pauline Hanson has spent the week offending everyone from Andrew Hastie
to the Prime Minister and Indigenous Australians, drawing widespread condemnation.

But is hitting back at her personally the best way to respond?

Today, Sean Kelly, columnist and former adviser to Julia Gillard and
Kevin Rudd on the way major parties are shifting their approach to
Pauline Hanson and One Nation."

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How unsurprising that the electorate wants to actually know everything
what a party and its cult-figure leader is all about as they get closer
and closer to the seat of power.

We live in an era where civil norms have apparently gone out of fashion
and have been totally replaced by headline grabbing slander, hate and
racism, something One Notion has completely embraced since day one of
their of their political rise.

Sadly, within large sections of the less politically literate bogan
masses owning and abusing political centrist and leftist opponents tends
to become strong magnet. They really rejoice in hearing megaphone-racism
and endless hatemongering and thus being criticised for that turns them
ever more into rabid supporters.

Yet exposing these creeps for what they are is an absolute must, if
their power grabbing manoeuvres are to be defeated.
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