By directing preferences to Pauline Hanson’s party, the Coalition may deliver One Nation its first election win in the lower house
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In 1997, when I was presenting the Country Hour on the ABC, I was sitting in an outside broadcast van at an agricultural field day in Northern Victoria about to interview the then member for Farrer and deputy prime minister, Tim Fischer, and the deputy opposition leader, Gareth Evans.
Pauline Hanson had just been elected to the House of Representatives and had subsequently launched One Nation. The two major-party veterans knew this was a threat.