The media made Pauline Hanson and One Nation, but now the party holds all the power.

For 30 years, journalists have ridden a merry-go-round reporting on its stunts and inflammatory rhetoric, while grappling with how to interrogate its policies and hold the party to account.

In Episode 5 of The Making of One Nation, far-right communication researcher Kurt Sengul says the party’s used the media.

The media have a lot of power to grant outsider fringe parties with legitimacy and momentum and exposure. Professional political parties go out of their way to avoid scandal, to avoid controversy, where far-right parties lean into it. One Nation has gone out of its way to generate media coverage.

The media have a lot of power to grant outsider fringe........

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