Ignorance is bliss

Pauline Hanson, the woman who launched a formidable grass-roots movement that arguably changed the face of Australian politics, has an autobiography coming out.

True, she failed, and was in fact chewed up and spat out by ‘the system’ that she detested.

But what salient fact about this enigmatic woman is chosen to be exclusively focussed upon in this brief news item?

Why, of course — Hanson’s admission that she’d had a “sexual relationship” with her then senior adviser David Oldfield.

As if the revelation of a tryst with ‘Babyface’ Oldfield weren’t already too much information, we are treated to the following extract describing “their first night together in Canberra’s Sundowner Village Motel, where he cooked her dinner”:

We enjoyed each other’s company and talked for hours. We ended up spending the night together. It was dawn before he left.

Memo JoJo Publishing: Please have pity and publish an expurgated edition.