Thursday, September 10, marks the 30th anniversary of Pauline Hanson's first speech in federal parliament.

Then a member of the House of Representatives, Ms Hanson said Australia was "in danger of being swamped by Asians", claimed Aboriginal people enjoyed "privileges over other Australians", criticised Native Title, and called for the abolition of ATSIC.

The Howard Government, elected alongside Ms Hanson in March 1996, ultimately embraced much of her platform; curtailing Native Title with the Wik "Ten Point Plan" and abolishing ATSIC. At the 2001 federal election, the Coalition put immigration at the centre of their campaign.

Over the past 30 years the now Senator Hanson has added Muslims and the family court to her list of targets. Her One Nation party secured its first Western Australian lower house seat last month.

Continued presence reveals 'failure of the major parties to address racism and social inequality'

Kurin Minang human rights expert and law academic, Dr Hannah McGlade, told National Indigenous Times Senator Hanson has had a grim impact on Australian politics.

"Pauline Hanson and One Nation have kept alive a shameful racist history that dispossessed and abused Aboriginal people through the generations. This includes a history of assimilation and genocide that devastated Aboriginal children and families' lives," she said.

"What her continued presence in Australian politics reveals is a clear failure on the part of the major Australian political parties to address racism and social inequality.

"Many Australians are doing it tough and they want a scapegoat; Pauline gives them that in her attacks on Aboriginal people and people of colour."

'Not interested in tackling poverty and making lives better for Australians'

Dr McGlade said One Nation has no interest in addressing poverty or improving peoples' lives.

"Big business and the mining, coal and gas industries, who are profiting enormously from Australia's natural assets, can continue on making their huge profits while people are homeless on the streets and children are going hungry," Dr McGlade noted.

"She's not interested in tackling poverty and making lives better for Australians, and her supporters, like Trump supporters, are being well and truly duped."

Noongar writer and academic Jesse J. Fleay told National Indigenous Times Senator Hanson had spent "three decades of building for herself a household name—the first political website in the country, paired with a long-standing career in reality television and breakfast programs".

Mr Fleay described her as "Australia's most successful career politician", but added the question is: "Had Senator Pauline Hanson realised the value of her polling momentum? Would she stand and change the brush-stroke of her vision for the future of the country? Become more mainstream to capture more votes? Manifestly not."

"Just shy of 30 years since her controversial maiden speech to parliament, Senator Pauline Hanson found her soapbox at the National Press Club to ultimately repeat herself: the same themes of 'multiculturalism must be scrapped', 'we are being swamped by non-white people'," Mr Fleay said.

"Since her monoculture speech, paired with a swathe of controversy and inconsistency of positions across her hydra-headed party's recent membership, Hanson's One Nation brand is on the decline at a federal level."

Liberals must take note: 'association with reactionary post-truth obscurantists is no way forward'

Mr Fleay said it was important for mainstream conservatives to recognise "amalgamation and association with reactionary post-truth obscurantists is no way forward".

He noted Andrew Hastie and John Howard's criticism of One Nation's stance on migration.

Mr Fleay said that recent by-elections and state election outcomes have proven Hanson's "influence is a force to be reckoned with".

"It is likely that a Liberal-One Nation coalition will form government this year... In Victoria—historically considered Australia's 'most progressive state'—and there could be further implications for future elections as the two major parties fail to respond effectively to rising inequality and institutional distrust," he said.

"Hanson may be celebrating in November, but the question of who among her ranks will remain affiliated with her party is certainly a reasonable one, if the past is anything to go off."