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07-06-2016, 10:54 AM
How an anti-immigrant reality TV star ended up back in Australian politics
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Political elites have had a tough time of it lately, and Australia's are ** exception.*
The Australian people did **t do what was expected in Saturday's federal election. They chose to give neither major party a clear mandate and they*sent a politician who rejects multiculturalism and wants the burqa banned back into government almost two decades after she first left it.
SEE ALSO: How to save your relationship from a Brexit breakup (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/brexit-relationship-dilemma/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The results are still being counted, but Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party seem likely (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-02/pauline-hanson-hopes-one-nation-will-pick-up-two-qld-senate/7564442) to have won at least two Senate seatsWho is Hanson, the Australian incarnation of Donald Trump, Sarah Palin or Nigel Farage? Many thought she had been lost to the dusty annals of political history, but **. She's back. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/05/who-is-pauline-hanson/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Pauline Hanson (http://mashable.com/category/pauline-hanson/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Politics (http://mashable.com/category/politics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/CzOn3ASlFLY
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Political elites have had a tough time of it lately, and Australia's are ** exception.*
The Australian people did **t do what was expected in Saturday's federal election. They chose to give neither major party a clear mandate and they*sent a politician who rejects multiculturalism and wants the burqa banned back into government almost two decades after she first left it.
SEE ALSO: How to save your relationship from a Brexit breakup (http://mashable.com/2016/06/29/brexit-relationship-dilemma/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
The results are still being counted, but Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party seem likely (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-02/pauline-hanson-hopes-one-nation-will-pick-up-two-qld-senate/7564442) to have won at least two Senate seatsWho is Hanson, the Australian incarnation of Donald Trump, Sarah Palin or Nigel Farage? Many thought she had been lost to the dusty annals of political history, but **. She's back. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/07/05/who-is-pauline-hanson/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
More about Pauline Hanson (http://mashable.com/category/pauline-hanson/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Politics (http://mashable.com/category/politics/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Australia (http://mashable.com/category/australia/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and World (http://mashable.com/world/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/CzOn3ASlFLY