Back in 1996, recently retired Ipswich city councillor Paul Tully outed his then fellow councillor Pauline Hanson as a racist in the closing weeks of the election campaign.
Hanson had been recently endorsed as the Liberal candidate for the Queensland federal seat of Oxley.
No doubt Labor-aligned Tully thought his clever intervention would keep Oxley with that party, it having been Liberal from 1949-1961 until seized by Bill Hayden when Bob Menzies government was returned with a one-seat majority.
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