Pauline Hanson is back indeed and again in the spotlight of the media. Now, Pauline Hanson has employed a former adviser to Donald Trump in her search to replicate his success here in Australia.
A few days after her warnings of being "swamped" by the Chinese in the morning, and by Muslims in the afternoon, One Nation, like Trump in the US, is hoovering up media coverage and hitting well above its weight in publicity terms by issuing a steady stream of provocative statements and policy proposals.
Hanson's party has four Senate seats, but is already driving the media and political agenda in ways that would have been inconceivable just three months ago.
And if you think it equally inconceivable that Ms Hanson and her entourage of deplorables could come to exert real governmental power in this country, you haven't been reading the memos.
Anti-immigration, white-pride, anti-Muslim rhetoric is leading the polls and winning elections and referendums in the US, the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, indeed almost everywhere in the liberal democratic societies of the northern hemisphere to which Australians have traditionally looked for models of governance and social norms.
