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One Love Too Many: The Undoing of Pauline Hanson
Author(s) -
Rutherford Jennifer
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
australian journal of politics and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-8497
pISSN - 0004-9522
DOI - 10.1111/1467-8497.00227
Subject(s) - undoing , politics , autocracy , context (archaeology) , democracy , sociology , aesthetics , political science , political economy , gender studies , history , law , philosophy , psychoanalysis , psychology , archaeology
This paper focuses on desire and its animating force in the Pauline Hanson One Nation Party. Examining the symbolic logic underpinning the rapport between Pauline Hanson and her constituency, it explores the connection between forms of love and forms of political organisation. Locating the implosion of One Nation within the context of Hanson's failure to sustain the love‐bonds of a totalitarian leader with her/his followers, it argues that the lack of democracy within One Nation was not a cause of its failure. The desire animating One Nation was for an autocratic leader and the totalitarian structure of One Nation posed no obstacle to the movement's fortunes until love shifted the libidinal field.