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Director Anna Broinowski explores how Pauline Hanson's speech in 1996 and the decades of debate that followed has influenced Australia today; the impact of her political career on modern multicultural Australia, and the people who have helped her transition from local fish shop owner to Member for Oxley. Featuring many of Hanson's critics, opponents, advisors and commentators, from former Prime Minister John Howard, to current members of the media, including Margo Kingston and Alan Jones; and leading Indigenous commentator, Professor Marcia Langton.
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00:00Fast forward to 2015 and the start of Hanson's Fed Up Tour,
00:05a one-year campaign through her old rural heartland.
00:09First stop, an anti-Muslim Reclaim Australia rally,
00:13where she's guest of honour.
00:15To me, the Reclaim Australia rally is
00:26to get back to the country that I grew up in.
00:31Multiculturalism is not the way to go.
00:33I'm sorry, this is my country.
00:35If you're not happy here, then go back where you want to come from.
00:40Actually, you know, I've got my own plane.
00:43I can take him back personally now myself.
00:46Having fought and lost nine elections since 1996,
00:51Hanson's campaigning for a Queensland Senate seat
00:54in the 2016 federal election.
00:57I'm excited about it.
00:59I want to speak to those people that say,
01:01hey, we're not the forgotten ones out here.
01:03She's taking the time to get out to meet us.
01:05I'm standing for the Senate at the next federal election,
01:07Queensland Senate.
01:08Take my card.
01:10How are you?
01:11Good, how are you?
01:12Do you know who I am?
01:14No idea.
01:14Climate change, that's all BS.
01:16It's a money-making racket and they brainwash the kids.
01:20And I said, flying up here,
01:21I said the amount of trees and growth that we have here
01:24is just amazing.
01:25Yet they'll have you think that we haven't got a tree left
01:27in this country.
01:28You've failed in previous bids to get into parliament.
01:31Deb, I'm sorry.
01:32I did not fail in that last election.
01:34I lost by 114 votes.
01:36And now I get so much support because people say to me,
01:39Pauline, you're only saying what we're thinking.
01:42Hello, everyone.
01:43Hanson's convictions haven't changed, but her rhetoric has.
01:47The invading hordes she fears are no longer Asian.
01:50They're Islamic.
01:52I'm not a fear of Muslims.
01:54I'm in fear of Islam and what it stands for.
01:57I am elected.
01:59I'm not going to walk away and see some pusillanimous politicians
02:04take away what I value so dearly, my country.
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