Pauline Hanson

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Pauline Lee Hanson (born May 27, 1954 in Brisbane , Queensland , Australia ) is a politician who co-founded the right-wing populist and racist One Nation Party in 1997 and thus revived the decades-long White Australia Policy , which was introduced in Australia with the Racial Discrimination Act 1973 had ended. She has since renamed her party Pauline Hanson's One Nation .

Hanson had great success in her first election with the One Nation Party when she and her party won nearly a quarter of the vote in Queensland. She then ran four times unsuccessfully, whereupon she withdrew from politics in 2004. On March 26, 2011 she was again defeated in a run for a seat in a group of Independents in New South Wales . In the 2016 general election in Queensland, she was elected to the Australian Senate with three other members of her party . On the occasion of the general election in Australia in 2019 , Hanson was able to defend her seat in the Senate. Hanson's One Nation, however, lost two seats in the Senate.

Early life

Pauline Hanson grew up in Woolloongabba , a district of Brisbane . Her grandfather immigrated to Australia from Great Britain in 1908 and her father ran a fish and chip kiosk. Hanson left school at the age of 15 and took a variety of office and service jobs that did not require any special training. She bought property that she rented out, making her financially independent. In her early political career, she took pride in having a fish and chip kiosk in Ipswich , outside Brisbane. She married twice. Hanson's first marriage was to a Polish immigrant. She has four daughters, two of whom are from her first marriage.

In 2007 she published her autobiography entitled Untamed and Unashamed (German: Unrestrained and Shameless ). The Bulletin magazine reported in an issue dated June 2006 that Pauline Hanson has been added to the Ever List of the 100 most influential Australians, in which it is one of 11 listed women.

Political career

In Ipswich she was elected as an independent candidate in the city parliament from 2004 and in 1996 she was nominated for the Liberal Party and elected to the Australian parliament. Already in the election campaign she had called for the rights of Aborigines and welfare recipients to be restricted , and in her parliamentary speeches she took radical positions against immigrants of Asian origin, which led to a break with the liberals.

In 1997, she founded her party, the One Nation Party, and won 22.7% of the vote in the 1998 Queensland election and 11 out of 89 seats. Although their theses were well received by the people of Queensland, the One Nation Party lost votes in 2001 in re-election and the party received 3 seats in accordance with Australian suffrage with 8.9%.

In the elections in Western Australia , the One Nation Party won 3 seats, while it failed to win a seat in Victoria , South Australia and Tasmania the following year. On the occasion of the national election in 2001 she was not unsuccessful and she did not succeed in winning a seat in the Senate of Queensland, as in 2001 in Western Australia. In the national election in 2003, this party received only 2% of the vote, after which it gave up its chairmanship.

In 2003 she was convicted by a court of electoral fraud for allegedly missing signatures for the election registration, but the verdict was revised shortly afterwards on appeal because she had moved within the framework of the law. However, she had to pay a fine of AUD 502,000, which she "tearfully" asked for through donations on television, but only 100,000 came together as donations.

After another unsuccessful election in 2004, she withdrew from politics for the time being. On August 15, 2007, it was announced that she had founded an Islamophobic party called Pauline's United Australia Party .

In a newspaper interview, Pauline Hanson spoke out against the major parties in Australia. She stated that they were not telling the truth, that the Australian Labor Party's policy was against the interests of small business owners and farmers, that the Conservative government of John Howard was selling off Australia by immigrating Muslims and accepting Africans without them To question the public. She warned in particular against the election of the Labor Party, as its policies are directed against the interests of the coal workers and their families, because Kevin Rudd pursues a union environmental policy against coal and he is also unable to solve the problem of the water shortage in Australia. The main point of the Hanson party's program was a ban on immigration for Muslims . In the 2007 Queensland election, Hanson was denied success.

In 2009, the One Nation Party Queensland was dissolved after the membership fell below 500.

On February 15, 2010, Hanson announced that they were de-registering the Pauline United Australia Party , selling their Queensland property and moving to the UK. The announcement of Hanson's departure was warmly welcomed by Nick Griffin , leader of the far-right British National Party .

On July 23, 2010, Hanson expressed an interest in returning to Australian politics with a candidate for election in the Liberal Party of Australia if the opposition leader Tony Abbott asked about it in the 2010 national election. She received no answer to this offer and on March 26, 2011 she is running for election in New South Wales in a group of 16 more Independents and her election is greeted with She's back on the official website of the One Nation Party . She did not have any success with her candidacy in 2011 either.

Political impact

Pauline Hansons is accused of populism and xenophobia and that behind her stood the strategists David Oldfield and David Ettridge , who were also founding members of the One Nation Party and were called "the two Davids". The One Nation Party presented itself as a party of national unity, was in favor of a drastic cut in immigration, opposed the government's criticized favoring of welfare recipients and the Aborigines , was against multiculturalism and castigated the prevailing politics as "Asiaticization of Australia “And made populist appeals to the common people . She was against globalization , for protective tariffs on Australian industries, for the privatization of state-owned companies and the promotion of small and medium-sized enterprises and agriculture.

Hanson is also accused of xenophobia and is linked to fears, for example, accusing Africans of bringing AIDS to Australia and making the following statement in an interview in 2011 regarding an immigration of Muslims: "Either assimilate or stay away".

Pauline Hanson first came into public when she was no longer elected in the 1996 national parliamentary elections by the Liberal Party of Australia because of her statements against Aborigines and welfare recipients. When she made a similar statement after her election victory in Parliament, the media noticed her. This resulted in a protracted Australian discussion about limiting immigration, forced labor for welfare recipients and expanding police powers, which changed politics: after three years of parliamentary work by you and the One Nation Party , the political framework conditions had changed, immigration was restricted, social assistance cut, repressive measures against young people were made possible and basic democratic rights restricted.

environmental Protection

On the occasion of the beginning of the 2019/2020 bushfires in Australia , Pauline Hanson accused the Australian Greens and the Australian Labor Party in mid-November 2019 of having contributed to the Australian nation being gripped by a bushfire crisis. Furthermore, left-wing parties contributed to the spread of the bushfires because they refused to take fire-reduction measures that would remove the "fuel" of the fire. The reaction of Prime Minister Scott Morrison 2 billion AUD to provide for the reconstruction of the destroyed by fire houses available, called it "pathetic".

Rating

Linda Tenenbaum stated: During the time when Hanson was successful, there were similar right-wing populist and right-wing extremist tendencies in Europe and the USA, and populist and right-wing parties emerged, which with the development of distrust and alienation of large sections of the population with the official political system and tied to the ruling parties, including a lack of solutions to mass unemployment, social constraints and poverty. However, like the One Nation Party with Hanson, these movements were unable to develop a social program for the wage-dependent sections of the population. After the press initially reported with interest on these movements, this interest turned into concern, the ruling parties adapted their programs to the right-wing populist positions, and critical reports were increasingly made in the press.

One of her answers in an interview has become legendary in Australia when she was asked whether she was “ xenophobic ” (German: “xenophobic”) and she then replied: “Please explain” (German: “Please explain”).

After winning a parliamentary seat in the Australian Parliament in 2016 after several unsuccessful attempts, Hanson gave her first speech in Parliament. She warned of the risk of flooding by Muslims, the introduction of Sharia law , globalization , free trade and is against any form of ethnic diversification in Australian society. It is for the Prohibition of the burqa and strongly opposed the use of halal -Speiseregeln that every year 10 million the Australian economy Australian dollar would burden.

Web links

Commons : Pauline Hanson  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Pauline Hanson misses out on NSW seat in distribution of preferences , theaustralian.com (English) April 12, 2011, accessed April 12, 2011
  2. ↑ paulinehanson.net.au ( Memento of the original from March 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Pauline Hanson's official 2011 election website: Pauline is standing with a Group of Independent Candidates for the NSW Legislative Council , accessed March 25, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / paulinehanson.net.au
  3. ↑ Adrian Beaumont: After messy night, Coalition more likely to form government - but Pauline Hanson is in the Senate. The Conversation, July 3, 2016, accessed September 15, 2016 .
  4. ^ Peter McCutcheon, Michael Atkin: Election 2016: How Pauline Hanson made her political comeback. July 4, 2016, accessed September 15, 2016 .
  5. ^ Members of Parliament , on One Nation, accessed January 12, 2020
  6. ↑ theaustralian.com.au : Pauline Hanson plans to run in Queensland poll (English) of February 24, 2009, accessed on March 24, 2011
  7. ↑ a b spiegel.de : Pauline Hanson, May 1, 2000, accessed on March 25, 2011
  8. ↑ a b Kim Stehens: Pauline Hanson says Australia is in danger of being 'swamped by Muslims' in Senate speech . on news.com.au. Retrieved September 15, 2016
  9. ↑ brisbanetimes.com.au : Our mum's no racist, say Hanson's children (English), March 20, 2011
  10. ↑ abc.net.au : Pauline Hanson. Untamed and Unashamed (English), March 29, 2009, accessed March 24, 2011
  11. ↑ trove.nla.gov.au : Untamed & unashamed: time to explain / Pauline Hanson (English), accessed on June 24, 2011
  12. ↑ smh.com.au : Now Pauline's for a united Australia, May 24, 2007, accessed April 7, 2011
  13. ↑ Die Welt : Party wants to ban Muslims immigration from August 15, 2007, accessed on April 6, 2011
  14. ↑ brisbanetimes.com.au : Give Pauline a go: One Nation Queensland chief (English) of March 9, 2011, accessed on March 24, 2011
  15. ↑ Pauline Hanson says goodbye to Australia: Woman's Day ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. womansda.ninemsn.com.au, February 15, 2010, accessed March 24, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / womansday.ninemsn.com.au
  16. ^ I won't call Australia home: Hanson plans to emigrate , smh.com.au (English), accessed on March 24, 2011.
  17. ^ Right-wing Australian politician Pauline Hanson to move to Britain , telegraph.co.uk, February 15, 2010, accessed March 24, 2011
  18. ^ Buyers intrigued by Pauline's paradise , brisbanetimes.com (English) February 15, 2010, accessed March 24, 2011
  19. ^ British far-right leader welcomes Hanson , smh.com.au (English) of February 17, 2010, accessed on March 24, 2011.
  20. ^ Pauline Hanson considering a return to politics ... if Tony Abbott asks her , news.com.au (English) of July 23, 2010, accessed on March 24, 2011
  21. ↑ Pauline Hanson Fan Club ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , paulinehanson.org.au, accessed March 25, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.paulinehanson.org.au
  22. ^ Official website of the One Nation Party , onenation.com.au (English), accessed on March 25, 2006
  23. ^ Scott Balson (one Nation Webmaster 1997-99) , gwb.com.au, accessed March 24, 2011
  24. ↑ One Nation's Immigration, Population and Social Cohesion Policy ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , australianpolitics.com, 1998 (English), accessed March 24, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.australianpolitics.com
  25. ↑ Hanson a bloodsucker , teage.com.au (English) December 7, 2006, accessed March 24, 2011
  26. ↑ au.news ( memento of March 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ): Interview: Hanson to Muslims: assimilate or leave (English), March 9, 2011, accessed on March 24, 2011
  27. ↑ a b Linda Tenenbau: Rise and Fall of the One Nation Party by Pauline Hanson , wsws.org of March 18, 2011, translated from English (March 9, 1999), accessed March 24, 2011
  28. ↑ Hanson blames Greens, Labor for bushfire crisis , November 14, 2019. on Skynews, accessed January 12, 2020
  29. ↑ Stephan Johnson: Pauline Hanson slams Scott Morrison over his 'pathetic' response to the bushfire crisis - and says he's lost confidence from Australia , January 8, 2020, on Dailymail. Retrieved January 12, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Hanson, Pauline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hanson, Pauline Lee
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian politician, co-founder of the extreme national One Nation Party
DATE OF BIRTH May 27, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Brisbane , Australia