Deborah Snow of Canberra Times does her ham-handed best to smear Pauline Hanson - Any voters concerned about migration are in the grip of irrational 'fears,' any politicians wanting to represent such voters have "tapped shamelessly into anti-immigration fears." Therefore any serious questioning of migration policies is automatically illegitimate from word-one. Amazingly these illogical unethical anti-Western elites are in power all across the West. --tma

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Pauline Hanson Rides Again, and Could Become a Power Player in the Senate

She’s back, in all her tub-thumping, hyperventilating glory.

For Canberra’s political class, as well as many mainstream Australian voters, it’s yet another jarring shock delivered by last weekend’s election. In all the talk of third party threats, most pundits had their eyes on the Greens and a rampant Nick Xenophon in South Australia. If Pauline Hanson figured in pre-election talk at all, it was on the basis of landing a Senate spot in Queensland but remaining a bit player. That frame no longer fits.

ABC election analyst Antony Green predicts that Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is on track to win three senate seats–in Queensland, New South Wales and Western Australia. Should he prove correct, it could put her on a footing to rival Xenophon, whose “Team” is near certain to command a bloc of three to four senate places.

“Hanson and her two likely co-senators are now, potentially, a nationwide force,” says David Oldfield, who, along with Hanson and David Ettridge, founded the original One Nation back in 1997. “If they were to get properly organised, then this is the beginning–not the end.” ...

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/federal-election-2016/pauline-hanson-rides-again-and-could-become-a-power-player-in-the-senate-20160708-gq19bx.htm