Catriona nails it with her analysis of the appeal of Pauline in attributing it to the failure of Labor and the remnants of the Coalition to even recognise the issues of concern to ordinary Australians, let alone address them. As Keynes so aptly wrote “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back!”
That seems to summarize the intellectual vacuity and dysfunction of any observable moral compass in the policies of those parties. Also the lack of leadership in addressing the matters that concern the people has provided the perfect opportunity to a main-chancer like Hanson to leap in and capitalise on the vacuum by exploiting the fears and prejudices of the people to divide the nation.
In that sense she is an equally intellectually challenged and rat cunning con artist as the dunce she so worships, the Orange Donald. It would be a critical failure of these mainstream parties to underestimate her appeal in the current uncertain times!!