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Today's Topics:

   1. Read: "She?s Been Anti-Immigrant [in Australia] for Decades.
      Now Her Popularity Is Soaring." (Vivek Pinto)
   2. Fwd: Request to depute photographer/videographer/ reporter
      for TAG?s Awards Presentation Ceremony on 27.02.2026 reg?
      (Tiatr Academy Goa)


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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:15:41 +0900
From: Vivek Pinto <[email protected]>
To: Goanet <[email protected]>
Subject: [Goanet] Read: "She?s Been Anti-Immigrant [in Australia] for
	Decades. Now Her Popularity Is Soaring."
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By: Victoria Kim - Reporting from Sydney, Australia
Published in: *The New York Times*
Date: February 26, 2026

Pauline Hanson and her One Nation party have become more palatable for some
Australians after the mass shooting at Bondi Beach.

In three decades in the public eye in Australia, the firebrand politician
Pauline Hanson has steadfastly been against immigration.

Going in and out of Parliament, basking in reality TV stardom and staging
headline-grabbing political stunts, she has warned of the country being
?swamped? by newcomers. Each time, she was met with widespread outrage and
criticism. After all, modern-day Australia is a diverse society with an
economy
<https://population.gov.au/publications/research/oecd-findings-effects-migration-australias-economy>
 that has long been heavily dependent on immigration
<https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1663585727617664>. Still, Ms. Hanson and
her far-right party, One Nation, persisted on the fringes of Australian
politics.

In recent weeks, though, they have soared in opinion polls to record
levels, with nearly a quarter of Australian voters saying they back the
party.

One Nation?s base had already been growing
<https://demosau.com/news/one-nation-vote-soars-post-bondi-tragedy/#:~:text=%E2%80%9COne%20Nation%20climbed%20around%2011,points%20after%20a%20seismic%20event.>
 in the second half of 2025, with many voters dissatisfied with mainstream
parties, given the high cost of housing and living. Then in December, two
gunmen ? who the police say
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/world/asia/australia-bondi-beach-shooting.html>
 were an immigrant from India and his Australian-born son, and who were
inspired by the Islamic State ? attacked a Jewish celebration and killed 15
people
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/world/australia/bondi-beach-shooting-sydney-australia.html>
.

?For politicians like Hanson, who have built up their repertoire
capitalizing on politics of resentment, this is the perfect storm,? said
Anna Broinowski, a documentary filmmaker and author who has followed
<https://www.penguin.com.au/books/please-explain-the-rise-fall-and-rise-again-of-pauline-hanson-9781760143541>
 Ms. Hanson?s career.

The groundswell for One Nation in many polls has put it ahead of the main
opposition, a coalition of the conservative Liberal and National parties
that has been racked by internal turmoil, causing a stir in the political
establishment. And it has raised fears that the wariness over immigration
that has reshaped politics in the United States and in Europe is now taking
hold in Australia, where nearly a third of the population was born overseas
and where immigrants largely enter legally.

Some new One Nation supporters said they had once been uneasy about Ms.
Hanson?s diatribes against immigration but now feel ready to embrace her
arguments.

John Adams, 44, an independent economist who was previously a member of the
Liberal Party and later an independent voter, joined One Nation in January.

He said that he was spurred to make the switch, which he had been mulling
for sometime, in the aftermath of the Bondi Beach attack. Mr. Adams said
that, instead of talking about immigration as a factor behind the attacks,
he felt that state and federal leaders focused on curbing protests and
curtailing
gun rights
<https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/world/australia/gun-control-buyback.html>
.

?Pretty much what she was warning about came to pass,? said Mr. Adams, who
described himself as the child of Catholic immigrants from Jordan.

?She?s become more palatable,? he added, referring to Ms. Hanson.

Kester Wilson, 69, who said he had voted for the center-left Australian
Labor Party for five decades, used to think Ms. Hanson was ?a bit of a
nutter.? But when a nationwide housing crisis seemed to engulf even his
small Western Australia town of Manjimup, where he said prices went
?through the roof,? he found himself thinking she had been ?on the right
track? about immigration.

?We?ve got nowhere to house them,? he said. ?Australia?s changed, and I?ve
changed.?

Ms. Hanson, 71, is a former fish and chips shop owner and mother of four
from Queensland, Australia?s most conservative state. She has highlighted
her outsider status to claim to speak for regular Australians, railing
against what she sees as elites and political correctness. She has argued
against benefits for Indigenous Australians, saying that she is as
indigenous to the country as they are.

Over the past week, she has pointed to her party?s newly growing support as
a sign that a broader swath of Australians were warming to her consistent
message ? that Australia needs to curb what she calls ?mass migration.?

?Even when the people have been screaming, ?Pull it back, stop it, we don?t
need this many,? the government disregarded them and just kept bringing in
more and more people,? Ms. Hanson said in an interview.

The Bondi Beach shooting, she said, had pushed people to voice concerns
about immigration they had been previously reluctant to express.

*?*People have been worried about this for a long time, but they didn?t
know where to go or what to do or how to say it or speak up,? she said.
?Bondi has given them the opportunity to say how they feel about it, what?s
happened to our country.?

Public attitudes toward immigration in Australia have soured in recent
years, as the country saw an influx of foreigners after the end of
pandemic-era restrictions, coinciding with a spike in the cost of living
and an acute housing crisis
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/world/australia/australia-election-housing.html>
. In the 12 months ending in June 2023, Australia saw a record number
<https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/population/overseas-migration/latest-release>
 of more than a half million more people arriving into the country than
those who left. In a survey
<https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/politics/newspoll-majority-of-australians-want-immigration-cuts/news-story/e26568ceef030c8320815a7f95bf639f>
 in November, two-thirds of respondents said they wanted fewer immigrants.

The rising anti-immigration sentiment is a sign of conflicting ideas of
national identity
<https://poll.lowyinstitute.org/charts/immigration-and-national-identity/> in
a country that actively courted
<https://www.nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/postwar-immigration-drive>
 immigrants to build its robust economy in the 20th century, and attempted
to embrace multiculturalism after the end of an official, race-based ?White
Australia? policy in 1973.

Ms. Hanson began her political career attacking Asian immigrants. Over the
past decade, she has focused her attention on people from Muslim nations,
twice wearing a burqa
<https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/world/australia/australia-hanson-burqa-suspended.html>
 in Parliament in a stunt to promote laws against the garment.

For One Nation, sustaining the new popular support and turning it into
votes and lasting political power will be a long path. The next federal
election is two years away, and the party currently holds just four seats
in Australia?s 76-member Senate, with a smattering of representatives at
the state level.

Jordan McSwiney, a researcher at the Center for Deliberative Democracy at
the University of Canberra who has written about Australia?s far right,
said the level of support for Ms. Hanson?s party was ?completely uncharted
territory,? but that channeling it into electoral success was a ?big if.?

Among One Nation?s new supporters is Rob Pearce, a 58-year-old owner of a
manufacturing business who lives in Mornington Peninsula, east of Melbourne.

Mr. Pearce, who said he had voted for the Liberal Party for decades because
he believed its policies were favorable to businesses, said the attack at
Bondi Beach prompted him to start showing up for One Nation meetings in his
area. Many other attendees, he said, were first-time supporters who had not
previously engaged in politics.

?It?s not an embarrassing party like it used to be,? he said. ?It?s now
standing for something we believe in.

Himself an immigrant from South Africa, Mr. Pearce said he was not
unconditionally opposed to immigration but felt that there was not enough
vetting of newcomers. ?Choosing the right people who will fit in, not cause
trouble,? he said.

Jill Sheppard, a political scientist at the Australian National University,
said One Nation?s popularity is forcing immigration into the political
debate in a way that would make the major parties uncomfortable.

?They?re in a bind. They?re facing an electorate that is not entirely
convinced of the merits of immigration,? she said. ?Business wants more
migration, voters don?t, and the parties find themselves caught in between.?
Victoria Kim is the Australia correspondent for The New York Times, based
in Sydney, covering Australia, New Zealand and the broader Pacific region.


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Subject: [Goanet] Fwd: Request to depute photographer/videographer/
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Sir/Madam,

The Tiatr Academy of Goa (TAG), in collaboration with Ravindra Bhavan
Margao, will organise ?Mhalgoddea Tiatristancho Bhouman? on 20th February
2026 at 3.30 pm at the Pai Tiatrist Auditorium, Ravindra Bhavan, Margao.

The highlight of the function will be the presentation of the Lifetime
Contribution to Tiatr Awards 2025 (Commercial), instituted in memory of
late Pai Tiatrist Joao Agostinho Fernandes. This year?s awardees are Leslie
Pereira, Santano Pereira and Joaquim Lorenco Fernandes, popularly known as
Jack Ferry.

The Young Achievers Awards 2025, instituted in memory of late Regina
Fernandes, will also be presented during the event. The awardees include
Maria Swizel Afonso, Fevila Fernandes, Pierson Paulo D?Costa and Aston
Soares.

The programme will also feature the release of the book ?Kantar Kor?,
authored by Edwin D?Costa. Additionally, prizes will be distributed to the
winners of the 13th Children?s Tiatr Competition organised by TAG.

Shri Nilesh Cabral, Hon. MLA of Curchorem constituency, will attend the
function as the chief guest. Smt. Platilda Afonso e Dias, a veteran
tiatrist, will be the guest of honour. Special invitees include Smt.
Sharmila Fernandes, granddaughter of the late Joao Agostinho Fernandes, and
Shri Rajendra Talak, Chairman of Ravindra Bhavan, Margao.

You are kindly requested to depute your photographer/videographer/reporter
for the function so that wide coverage is given to the awards presentation
ceremony.

Thanking you

Yours faithfully

Sd/-

Carlos Fernandes

*Member Secretary*


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