The One Nation leader, Pauline Hanson, before addressing the press club. Paul Daley writes ‘this was the moment an avowed political outsider made it very clear she is serious about becoming prime minister’. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Thirty years ago, when I watched Pauline Hanson deliver her first speech to the House of Representatives, there was a sense around the halls of federal parliament that she was a radical, racist outlier who’d soon disappear.