Hanson’s Super Regressive Movie
The Business of Fear Pauline Hanson’s Super Progressive Movie was released on Australia Day as a paid online stream, costing viewers $14.99. This week, One Nation escalated the project by hosting cinema screenings across the country — reportedly the first time an Australian political party has funded and promoted a feature film in this way. Tickets ranged from $99 to $129 and included a Q&A session with Hanson herself. That price tag alone signals that this isn’t about open dialogue or cultural understanding. It is about selling an idea — and more importantly, selling fear. The core problem with Super Progressive Movie is not that it presents a conservative viewpoint. Australia has always had room for political disagreement, and it should. The problem is that the film, and the campaign around it, actively encourages division. It frames difference as a threat. It suggests that there is, or should be, only one acceptable version of Australian culture. That idea is not just wrong — it is fundamentally dishonest. Does Pauline Hanson genuinely believe that Queensland farming culture is the same as inner-Sydney city culture? That surf culture is the same as death metal culture? That regional towns, suburban communities, remote Indigenous