Australian society is no stranger to a headline featuring Pauline Hanson. The headlines have only grown in volume and variety as her party has completed its unlikely odyssey from punchline to political force.This week, Hanson has attempted to stop some of those headlines by blocking the ABC, The Guardian and The Age from attending a press conference unveiling One Nation’s Victorian candidates for the November election.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Is Hanson taking a page from Trump’s war on the media?
Australia is unlikely to become the US overnight, but we risk gradually importing the incentives that have produced America’s increasingly polarised politics.







