Courier mail, 13 June 1998.

Hanson minders all clubbed out, Courier mail, 12 June 1998. 'A lift for One Nation ... Pauline Hanson with workers at the north Queensland town of Ravenshoe'.

'On the march', Craig Johnstone, Courier mail, 6 June 1998. 'One Nation could interfere with John Howard's election plans'.

'A State of unrest', Matthew Franklin, Courier mail, Saturday 6 June 1998. ' A week out from the state election, all major political parties are facing up to the threat of Pauline Hanson's One Nation movement. For Premier Borbidge, it is an unwanted distraction; for Labor, a political unknown.'

Queensland state election, 1998

Australia
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Queensland Electoral Commission

Queensland state election, 1998. Following the 1998 state election, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party emerged as a new political force in Queensland. As indicated by this map published by the Electoral Commission of Queensland, One Nation captured 11 seats after receiving nearly one quarter of Queensland’s primary vote. For the coalition parties, major upsets included the loss of the safe National seat of Barambah. The 1998 election result demonstrated that beyond the capital and urban core, One Nation’s ‘conservative’ agenda commanded widespread popular appeal. Details of polling at Queensland general election, Electoral Commission of Queensland, 1998

Following a surprise win in the formerly safe Labor seat of Oxley at the March 1996 federal election (where she attracted a nation-high swing to her of 19.3%), Pauline Hanson and her divisive views

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