Media and political complacency is letting Pauline Hanson re-write the rules on accountability

“Disappointing” was the best Guardian Australia could muster when Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banned it from a press conference, this time called to announce the party’s candidates for the forthcoming Victorian state election. “Unorthodox” was the reaction of The Age, which was also banned, along with the ABC. These are the latest in a series of bans imposed by One Nation on media it does not like. The first occurred on the eve of the byelection for the federal seat of Farrer in southern New…