One love too many: The undoing of Pauline Hanson

Australian Journal of Politics and History

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 192-208

  Rutherford, Jennifer ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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EID: 0035593821     PISSN: 00049522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-8497.00227     Document Type: Review

References (50)

1. Interview with Scott Balson, Ipswich, January 2000, Tape 72. Tape numbers refer to VHS video-recorded interviews. Except for Federal and State executive members of One Nation, MPs, and candidates in State and Federal elections, the names of interviewees have been changed.
2. Interview with Jack Paff, Ipswich, January 2000, Tape 75.
3. Interview with Heather Hill, Ipswich, January 2000, Tape 76.
4. Heather Hill, speech at the Annual General Meeting, Rooty Hill, February 1999, Tape 71.
5. Interview with Jack Paff, January 1999, Tape 67.
6. J. Brett, "Representing the Unrepresented: One Nation and the Formation of the Labor Party", in N. Davidoff ed. Two Nations: The Causes and Effects of the Rise of the One Nation Party in Australia (Melbourne: Bookman, 1998), pp. 26-37.
7. See I. Ward, M. Leach and G. Stokes, "The Rise and Fall of One Nation", in I. Ward, M. Leach and G. Stokes eds, The Rise and Fall of One Nation (St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, 2000), pp. 1-22.
8. P. Reynolds, "One Nation's Electoral Support in Queensland", in Ward et al., The Rise and Fall of One Nation, pp. 153-69.
9. I. Ward, "One Nation: Organisation, Party and Democracy", in ibid., p. 108.
10. One hundred and twenty hours of this interaction is recorded on video and forms the basis of a documentary film Ordinary People, to be released in December 2000; written and directed by Jennifer Rutherford, co-produced by Martha Ansara and Jennifer Rutherford, in association with The Australian Film Commission.
11. C. Lefort (J.B. Thompson ed.), The Political Forms of Modern Society: Bureaucracy, Democracy, Totalitarianism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1986), p. 279.
12. Lefort, Political Forms of Modern Society, pp. 285-8.
13. Wynnum Branch Meeting. February 1999, Tape 69.
14. Interview with Cecil, Aratula Dinner Dance, 1998, Tape 37.
15. Informal meeting, February 2000, Tape 75.
16. Informal meeting, February 2000, Tape 75.
17. David Ettridge, speech at the Annual General Meeting, Rooty Hill, February 1999, Tape 70.
18. Interview with David Oldfield, March 2000, Tape 78.
19. Interview with Cathlene, January 1999, Tape 71.
20. Interview with Dean, January 1999. Tape 70.
21. Ettridge, speech at the Annual General Meeting, Rooty Hill, February 1999, Tape 70.
22. Members also held proxies on the floor, but these were less than the combined proxies of Oldfield, Hanson and Ettridge.
23. See Ordinary People.
24. State election, March 1998, Tape 2.
25. Speech to Inaugural One Nation meeting, Canberra 1997, audio cassette series C.
26. Interview with Hanson, Geelong, 1997, audio cassette series B.
27. A. Shoemaker, "'Don't Cry for Me, Diamantina': An Alternative Reading of Pauline Hanson", Journal of Australian Studies, 53, 2 (1997), p. 28.
28. I am indebted to Kit Guyatt for this analogy.
29. Interview with Cathlene, January 1999, Tape 71.
30. This conscious discourse about Hanson as erotic object does not preclude an unconscious sublimated love bond between Hanson as master and her supporters.
31. S. Freud (J. Strachey trans. and ed.), Group Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego, Penguin Freud Library (Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1984), volume 12, p. 135.
32. Ipswich Showground, June 1998, Tape 2.
33. Interview with Bruce, Ipswich, January 1999, Tape. 68
34. Interview with Dave, Ipswich, January 1999, Tape 67.
35. Speech of candidate for the One Nation executive, Annual General Meeting, February 1999, Rooty Hill, Tape 71.
36. T. Adorno (J.M. Bernstein ed.), "Freudian Theory and Patterns of Fascist Propaganda", in The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (London: Routledge, 1991).
37. Adorno, "Freudian Theory", p. 122.
38. Cited in C. Johnson and A. Curthoys, "Articulating the Future and the Past: Gender, Race and Globalisation in One Nation Discourse", Hecate, 24, 2 (1998), p. 107.
39. For a discussion of Hanson's sexuality, see M. Lake, "Pauline Hanson: Virago in Parliament, Viagra in the Bush", in Davidoff, Two Nations pp. 114-15.
40. Cited in Johnson and Curthoys, "Articulating the Future", p. 105.
41. Adorno, "Freudian Theory", p. 122.
42. J. Lacan (J.A. Miller ed. and D. Porter trans.), The Seminar of Jacques Lacan, Book VII; The Ethics of Psychoanalysis, 1959-1960 (London: Routledge, 1992), pp.145-54.
43. See, J. Rutherford, The Gauche Intruder: Freud, Lacan and the White Australian Fantasy (Carlton: Melbourne University Press, 2000), pp. 170-72.
44. This issue of the mainstream media's significance in shaping attitudes within One Nation is beyond the scope of this paper. It is discussed further in M. Goot, "Pauline Hanson and the Power of the Media", in Ward, et al., The Rise and Fall of One Nation.
45. Interview with Bruce, Ipswich, January 1999, Tape 68.
46. Unrecorded discussions, June 1998.
47. Interview with Barbara Hazelton, November 1998, Tape 43.
48. Freud, Group Psychology.
49. Tape 67.
50. Interview with Dave, Ipswich, January 1999, Tape 67.