Taking the International Spotlight
Pauline Hanson and Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S1321816600004104Keywords:
Right-wing populism, Pauline Hanson, Pauline Hanson's One Nation PartyAbstract
In 2001 I was invited to give a public lecture at the Centre for the Study of the History of the Twentieth Century, a scholarly research institute within the University of Paris. The invitation was extended by Professor Stephane Dufoix, who writes on the internment of enemy aliens in World War II, one of my academic specialisations. However, I was not asked to speak about this area of expertise. Indeed, it turned out to be a ‘Don't mention the war’ event. Rather, Professor Dufoix and his colleagues were fascinated by Pauline Hanson and were interested in an Australian perspective on the rise of extreme right-wing populism and the Down Under equivalent of the French les laissés-pour-compte (‘those left behind’) or les paumés (‘the losers’).
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I should like to thank Brad Blashak for research assistance in the preparation of this article. Professor Peter Cryle assisted in the correct French terms. Alain de Benoist, ‘End of the Left/Right Dichotomy: The French Case’, Telos 102 (1995).
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