Mike Hosking

So she's this interesting mix of representing the Australian battler and a little bit of act in the conservatism and on the tax side.

She's into tax splitting, I noted, with interest, which is an old Peter Dunn idea.

In other words, you know, if you've got two people, one person, you can split the tax.

Anyway, she hates the media and the media hate her.

By and large, all the questions were very respectful and there wasn't much argy-bargy.

There was this from a Guardian reporter.

So that's Sarah Martin from The Guardian, who didn't get a word in edgeways.

Anyway, the point being, she was asking about, and I won't bore you with the detail, but there's a job, her daughter, Hansen's daughter, who ran, I think, in Tasmania from memory.

Anyway, she's got another job in New South Wales, and there's a few question marks around that.

And that's part of the Pauline Hansen problem.

There are question marks around her whole organisation.

They're an interesting, eclectic collection of...

Anywhere from political experience of Pauline Hanson to complete idiots who don't have the slightest idea.

One of the arguments was branches.

She banned branches of the party because when she used to have branches of the party, a whole lot of try-hards and weirdos got involved and they caused her no end of trouble.

So she banned branches.

So it was an interesting exercise.

The reviews go as follows.

Pauline Hanson at the National Press Club was a high-voltage lightning rod for popular anger, but a very feeble lighthouse for illuminating solutions.

It was an audition for the position of opposition leader, not prime minister.