Revealed: The evolution of Pauline Hanson

Margo Kingston discusses what Pauline Hanson has come to represent and how she’s using her past to fashion her present.

Jul 15, 2026, updated Jul 15, 2026

When Pauline Hanson was at the previous peak of her political popularity in the late 1990s, one journalist was there chronicling it. 

Margo Kingston followed Hanson on the 1998 campaign trail and has followed her career since – pulled back in, even when she wanted to walk away. 

So what do Hanson’s beginnings tell us about her future? And what are the parallels between 1996 and 2026? 

Today, Kingston discusses what Hanson has come to represent and how she’s using her past to fashion her present. 

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Guest: Journalist and author of Off the Rails: The Pauline Hanson trip, Margo Kingston

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