Amy Remeikis

Pauline Hanson thinks the Victorian Premier should just suck it up.

But what does a campaign featuring the slogan Ditch the Witch say about the political discourse in Australia?

Today, Amy Remakis, the Chief Political Analyst at the Australia Institute and contributing editor at The New Daily, on how the politics of grievance is making a comeback.

I'm Sam Hawley on Gadigal land in Sydney.

This is ABC News Daily.

Amy, the last time we had a fierce debate about Ditch the Witch was when Julia Gillard was Prime Minister and Tony Abbott stood in front of a Ditch the Witch sign at a protest outside Parliament House.

It was pretty outrageous then, wasn't it?

Yeah, absolutely.

And she did.

She suffered a lot as Prime Minister, as the first female Prime Minister.

We even had, you know, the right-wing commentator, Alan Jones, saying that she should be stuffed in a chaff bag and thrown out to sea.

Yeah, and of course, Amy, it did all culminate in Julia Gillard's now world-famous...

misogyny speech to the parliament.

But, you know, it probably reminded every woman at the time how hard it is as a woman to enter politics and then survive in it.

All right.

So, Amy, now, almost 14 years later, we are here again.

And this time the target is Jacinta Allen, the Victorian premier, with a Ditch the Witch campaign against her.

Just tell me about that.

No, on Sky News, Pauline Hanson, where she made those comments, you know, suck it up, she's saying it's OK.

Yeah, and the owner of that Melbourne brothel that you mentioned, Franco Puglio, he has said that he was involved in funding this campaign.