When it comes to One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson, it is as if vast swaths of Australia’s media have the anterograde amnesia of the sort suffered by Guy Pearce’s character in Mementowhere he cannot make new memories after a certain event. In this case, writers and editors can remember that Hanson has been elected to parliament, but cannot retain anything she has done since.
Take news.com.au on the apparent unity between former prime minister John Howard and the One Nation leader on the issue of gun control, who, “in a rare alignment after the Bondi attack”, have “urged Australia to confront extremist ideology and antisemitism first”.