We remember Pauline ...

Ever since former Ipswich fish-and-chip shop operator Pauline Hanson burst onto the political stage after the 1996 federal election, The Bug has been reporting on the major developments in her career.
We've charted her ups and downs - from her time as an endorsed Liberal party candidate in the federal seat of Oxley, to her divisive time as an independent MP.
Following her jailing on charges of electoral fraud, it's timely to reprint just two of the stories we've published on the controversial former politician.

Cooking up a storm

Even while in jail Pauline Hanson will still earn some income from the royalties on sales of the cookbook she launched in 1997.
As reported at the time by The Bug, Ms Hanson put her years of experience in running an Ipswich fish-and-chip shop to good use by writing Pauline Hanson's Multicultural and Asian Seafood Cookbook.

ORIENTAL FISH
Ingredients: Three mullet or shark fillets. Three large potatoes cut into chips.
Method: Deep fry fish and chips in oil until cooked.
Serve on plate with chopsticks.
Serves 3.

DREAMTIME SEAFOOD
Ingredients: Three mullet or shark fillets. Three large potatoes cut into chips.
Method: Deep fry fish and chips in oil until cooked.
Serve on plate no doubt bought with ATSIC funds or other government grants. And you know they get money to take taxis everywhere.
Serves 3.

SINGLE MUM'S FAVOURITE
Ingredients: Three mullet or shark fillets. Three large potatoes cut into chips.
Method: Deep fry fish and chips in oil until cooked.
Serve on plate bought with other taxpayers' hard-earned money.
Serves 3 - one mother and two children, more than likely by different fathers just to get welfare.

MULTICULTURAL SURPRISE
Ingredients: Three mullet or shark fillets Three large potatoes cut into chips.
Method: Deep fry fish and chips until cooked.
Serve on plate, preferably back in their own country. Serves 3.

10 EVENTS THAT SHAPED HER LIFE

1. April, 1955:
Still in a pram, Pauline is in the frontline of her first political battle! She accompanies her mother to a protest rally outside a Brisbane suburban paint store which plans to introduce Australia's first free colour cards.

2. September, 1964:
As a two year old child, a tearful Pauline pleads with her family to immigrate to Britain so she can experience a white Christmas.

3. December, 1968:
Now an impressionable young teenager, Pauline attempts to play The Beatles' "white" album only to be frightened when a Nat King Cole record starts playing, having been placed in the wrong cover. To this day, she still vividly recalls the song's title: Against the Order of Nature Boy.

4. January 1972:
Pauline is devastated to discover that a foster sister she was really quite fond of was in fact Aboriginal. Until then, she had no inkling there would one day be black blood between them.

5. July, 1972:
Now in her late teens, Pauline establishes a short-lived lobby group to fight the introduction of colour television.

6. August 1973:
Now a mature young woman, married with one child and another one on the way, Pauline vows never to shop ever again at Errol Stewarts electrical store after witnessing a sales assistant helping a newly-wed Aboriginal couple purchase a range of white goods.

7. January 1976:
During her first - and only - meal at a Vietnamese restaurant she mistakes the head chef's Lenin's 100th Birthday Commemorative Medallion, that has fallen into her entree dish, for a city council dog identification disc.

8. March, 1988:
Now a shop proprietor and anxious to please all customer tastes, Pauline's first - and only - attempt to deep fry dim sims ends in disaster when the 10 litres of BP high-viscosity oil she is using catches fire.

9. May, 1992:
Pauline is devastated when her mail-order copy of the latest Barry White album - a birthday present for one of her children - arrives at home. She cancels her membership of the Australian Record Club immediately on realising she has been duped. On top of the Nat King Cole and dog tag incidents, the White subterfuge begins to crystalise her strong views on colour and race.

10: December 1994:
During a quiet afternoon's trading in her shop, she absent-mindedly twists the station dial and discovers talk-back radio.