Samantha Maiden

Look, I'll tell you what I think, and you might not like it.

I think that what Pauline Hanson is doing right now is really politically diabolically smart because she's come up with this word that drives progressive Australia, left-wing Australia absolutely bonkers.

And then everyone comes out of their hidey hole to debate it and discuss it.

And I'm not saying you shouldn't do that.

Like it's a free country.

And I think it's legitimate to question our political leaders and what they say.

But the more people do that, the more we're just, everyone's talking about Pauline Hanson.

So that's exactly where she wants to be.

And so I suppose if you go looking for

coherence and you know like a policy agenda that is is completely logical right well you're going to get sad and angry and then the media is just going to keep talking about pauline

I mean, she actually started, I think she first said it in the press club, right?

Yeah.

But then Angus Taylor gets asked about it.

He doesn't have a proper answer.

On the same day, actually, before Angus Taylor's press conference, Andrew Hastie comes out, you know, jumping into the Coalition party room with his war paint on and says, you know, I'd rather go out in a box than bend the knee to Pauline Hanson.

It was like real...

Law!

Tarzan Act, right?

And then elbows in Parliament accusing Angus of not being as strong as the Member for Canning, who is, of course, Andrew Hastie.

And everybody's talking about Pauline, right?