Off the Rails

When Pauline Hanson and One Nation shook Australian politics in the late 1990s, Margo Kingston, a veteran of the Canberra press gallery, was watching from close quarters. Here she takes a serious look at the party's rise and sets it within something larger: the relationship between politicians and the press, and the unwritten codes that govern how each treats the other.

It is as much a book about journalism as about Hanson herself. For anyone interested in Australian politics, populism or the uneasy bargains of political reporting, it remains a sharp and thoughtful account from inside the story.