Untamed and unashamed, Pauline Hanson at 71 By
Kathy Gyngell
January 29, 2026
Pauline Hanson waving to people as the prime minister REMEMBER Pauline Hanson? That much-despised ‘far right’ Australian politician, persona non grata for years for saying how it is. Well, her party, One Nation, which she never gave up on, is riding high in the polls amid Coalition turmoil, her party garnering record support, according to the latest Guardian Essential poll.
Now 71, this extraordinary woman – one of seven children who left school at 15 and ran her own fish-and-chip shop – is not just making waves again but is a major force to be reckoned with in Australian politics.
She has never pulled her punches. Her maiden speech to the House of Representatives in 1996 set out what she thought then and has never veered from. In her opening lines, Hanson said: ‘I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment that Aboriginals receive more benefits than non-Aboriginals.’ She then boldly asserted that Australia was in danger of being ‘swamped by Asians’, by immigrants who ‘have their own culture and religion, form ghettos and do not assimilate’. Hanson argued that ‘mainstream Australians’ were instead subject to ‘a type of reverse racism . . . by those who promote political correctness and those who control the various taxpayer funded “industries” that flourish in our society servicing Aboriginals, multiculturalists and a host of other minority groups’. She asserted that ‘present governments are encouraging separatism in Australia by providing opportunities, land, moneys and facilities available only to Aboriginals’.
Such a brutal critique of the country’s progressive left policies brought down pariah status on her. But, as she declared in her 2003 autobiography, she remained ‘untamed and unashamed’. She still is. With her party soaring in the polls, she continues to dominate the headlines in Australia. Last November she was accused of ‘performing a disrespectful stunt’ when she walked into the Senate shrouded in a head-to-ankle burqa to protest against fellow senators’ refusal to consider her Bill that would ban the burqa and other full-face coverings in public places. She was suspended from Parliament as a result. Now she is in the news again with what might be called a unique campaign strategy – her launch of A Super Progressive Movie.
It’s a joke with a definite point – a very well-constructed one if the trailer is anything to go by. It is designed to expose the woke idiocy of those who spend their lives trying to stay atop of their increasingly insane virtuous high ground, in this case those who uncritically buy into and spout trans nonsense. On Monday she released a teaser of the movie – a song she did in collaboration with Holly Valance, the reality TV star turned conservative culture war warrior. To promote it further, Hanson put out a provocative tweet with what critics have condemned as the anti-trans song Holly wrote for the film. You can read her tweet and watch the song here:
https://x.com/PaulineHansonOz/status/2015574950560837997
It got Holly into trouble, so the MSM likes to tell us. She faced a backlash, one article declared. As if to demonstrate how out of touch these po-faced critics are, within a couple of days the song had made it to the number one spot on iTunes.
I am not surprised: it made me laugh, and good for Holly! You can watch the trailer and/or buy the movie to download here.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/untamed-and-unashamed-pauline-hanson-at-71