Senator Pauline Hanson, Leader of Leader of One Nation, will Address the National Press Club of Australia for the “leaders Address to the National Press Club”.
For more than a generation, Pauline Hanson has been one of Australia’s most recognisable political leaders. She exploded upon the Australian political scene with her landmark maiden speech in 1996 after she was elected as the Member for Oxley, the first woman independent elected to the House of Representatives.
Pauline Hanson is a proud Queenslander born in Brisbane, and a proud Australian. She’s a devoted mother with four children and five grandchildren. Pauline is very much like the people she does her best to represent. She’s been a farmer, a single mum, a published writer and she has owned several small businesses. Pauline knows what it means to struggle, and she knows what it takes to make a go of things. Pauline is passionate about all Australians being empowered to rise above adversity and enjoy the many opportunities which come with living, learning and working in their country.
Pauline’s entry into Federal politics was a controversial one which saw her and One Nation become targets for Australia’s political establishment, especially after the 1998 elections in Australia and Queensland in which One Nation had a huge impact. It saw Pauline spend a short time in prison before justice was ultimately served and all charges and convictions against her were dropped. She was called Australia’s first political prisoner.
Through all of this, Pauline never lost sight of her goal: to be a strong voice for the Australian people in the halls of power, to stand up for the interests of Australia first and foremost, and to defend the values, rights, freedoms and principles which made Australia a strong, successful democratic country.
Re-elected to Parliament as a Senator for Queensland in 2016 and 2022, Senator Hanson now leads a resurgent One Nation party which has recently achieved historic success at elections in 2026 on the back of voter support which has rivalled or exceeded that of Australia’s ‘major’ political parties.
