The lesson of Hansonism? It’s the economy, stupid
By 7.30 political correspondent Andrew Probyn
Updated yesterday at 2:08pm
PHOTO: Pauline Hanson has capitalised in the Australian political scene in a similar fashion to Donald Trump in the US.(ABC News: Nick Haggarty)
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Pauline Hanson is nibbling at the Left as much as she is chomping on the Right.
And some of the ideas being revisited in the Opposition are, according to folk inside the Labor Party, partly driven by a belief that the best way to deal with the rise of One Nation is to articulate a progressive economic agenda.
In the words of one member of Labor's parliamentary Left, this would help combat disillusionment in the population so "they are not going to be blaming minorities for their economic woes".
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-03-03/one-nation-unites-left-and-right-economy/8322020
