This is Adelaide… and the many faces of Pauline Hanson
It has taken decades for a determined Pauline Hanson to claw her One Nation party into the lower house seats of South Australian parliament. Renowned photographer Alex Frayne captured these images in the Adelaide Hills when the controversial leader was fighting for political relevancy in 2013.
Image title: “Pauline Hanson Emergence”, 2013, in Hahndorf.
Back in 2013, One Nation leader and federal Queensland Senator Pauline Hanson was taking a swing at a federal senate seat to represent New South Wales.
She didn’t make it, but photographer Alex Frayne managed to capture the well-recognised politician in a series of shots at The German Arms in Hahndorf.
This week, Hanson was back in the headlines as she rejected allowing opportunistic Coalition members to switch to her party but told The Age she would “have [SA Senator] Alex Antic in a heartbeat – I think his views are closely aligned with One Nation’s”.
Antic is rumoured to be pitching himself as the next president of the South Australian Liberal party and has made no secret of his support for One Nation’s SA Leader Cory Bernardi, slipping into state parliament to watch his maiden speech and being photographed having a beer with him during the state election campaign.
Hanson is a determined former fish and chip shop owner who was first preselected as the Liberal candidate in the 1996 election for Oxley in Queensland – but was disendorsed for comments made about Aboriginal Australians.
Her name remained on the ballot paper as a Liberal, she won the federal lower house seat, sat as an independent and then co-founded One Nation in 1997. Hanson failed to be re-elected in 1998.
It was not until the 2016 election before she managed to win her way back into federal parliament as a Queensland senator.
Hanson’s political career has been dogged with controversy. Along the way she spent 11-weeks in jail for electoral fraud in 2003, her conviction later overturned by the Queensland Court of Appeal.
Now her party is a rising force after taking a surprise number of seven seats in the South Australian state election in March.
Over time Hanson has called for massive reductions in migrants, made controversial, critical comments about Islamic and African migrants and has twice worn a burqa in the Australian Senate.
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During her regular visits to Adelaide to support the One Nation politicians now firmly ensconced in SA’s parliament, Hanson continues to grab headlines.
From state election night promises of leaving the Premier “landmines” to having her staff member recently tell a seasoned journo to “shut up”, Hanson’s brand of politics is forever changing the face of South Australia.
Alex Frayne is a regular contributor to InDaily and wrote a series of essays for the publication in 2025.
https://www.indailysa.com.au/citymag/design/2025/09/04/a-lesson-in-portrait-photography
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