A chronicle of chaos dogs Pauline Hanson’s WA election campaign
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AS West Australians vote on Saturday, keen attention will be on a woman who isn’t a candidate, knows little about local issues, and lives a continent away.
She is Pauline Hanson and her week-long campaign on the ground in Western Australia has demonstrated why she has stood for election 10 times since 1998 — six federal polls, two in NSW, two in Queensland — with just one victory.
It has been a chronicle of chaos.
The election has been billed as her next big step, with the prospect One Nation candidates will hold the balance of power in the state Upper House, and maybe — an outside chance — seats in the Lower House.
This would add to the influence exercised by Senate Hanson and three One Nation colleagues in the federal Upper House, where they can decide the fate of legislation.
But the Hanson presence on the ground has created such a shambles within her own party and her national profile, there are doubts she will do as well as she and her backers have foreshadowed.
