Webdiary - Founded and Inspired by Margo Kingston

"The Pauline Hanson phenomenon was triggered, in my opinion, by the terrible mistakes of the Labor Government in implementing competition policy with no plan for transition for the many rural communities it would decimate, and by the expulsion of robust debate on social issues, with the connivance of the media, including me. The idea was that if politically incorrect views were not aired they would disappear. The opposite was true, and the excluded exploded in 1996 when her remarks about Aboriginal welfare saw her expulsion from the Liberal Party and an incredible 20 per cent swing against Labor in what had been one of their safest Queensland seats."- Margo Kingston

Here was stupid little me thinking that a war ended when the bullets stopped flying and the the soldiers went home.  Nowadays you can just declare your troops to be in non-combat-mode and leave them on the soil they invaded.