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Pauline Hanson goes mainstream

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One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has addressed the National Press Club for the first time in her political career.

In a wide-ranging speech, the One Nation leader linked housing issues to immigration, railed against multiculturalism, labelled net-zero a "hoax", called for an overhaul of IR laws and rebuked other parties for copying her policies.

So, will the address make Pauline Hanson even more electable? Or does it open her up to some political risks ahead?

Patricia Karvelas and David Speers break it all down on Politics Now.

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