View from The Hill: Breaking Pauline Hanson's 'strike' has taken skin off Bridget McKenzie
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
Given her status as holding two vital Senate crossbench votes Pauline Hanson is at times, in the eyes of senior government figures, She Who Must Be Obeyed.
And so it was last week, when Hanson announced she was striking, to press the cause of straitened dairy farmers. She wouldn’t vote on non-essential legislation.
The fallout was palpable....