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Pauline Hanson engages in the ‘easy business of politics’: former PM lashes One Nation

Former Labor prime minister Kevin Rudd has offered a scathing analysis of Pauline Hanson’s politics.

He noted the grinding business of politics looks after practical problems including national security, the economy, environmental sustainability, and housing affordability, while Hanson plies in the politics of protest.

He told ABC’s 7.30:

The hard business of government is to come up with practical responses to each of those challenges.

The easy business of politics is simply to act as a protest vector and then lace it and spice it with the politics of race.

That is what Ms Hanson has been doing ever since she emerged in my fair state of Queensland a quarter of a century ago.

What single answer does she have to any of the challenges I listed before? Zip is the answer to that.

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