In 1996, independent MP Pauline Hanson gave a speech that changed Australia. Attacking Asians, Aborigines and foreign aid, Hanson unleashed a Pandora’s box of violence and division on the progressive country Prime Minister Keating had positioned as “part of Asia.” Hanson’s explosive political journey – from 1996 to 2004 – mirrors Australia’s own: from left-leaning multiculturalism, to the centrist, divided landscape we live in today. With extraordinary 90s archive and intimate access to the key players in Hanson’s bizarre journey from parliament to prison to Dancing with the Stars, this feature documentary shows how an Ipswich fish & chip shop lady changed the nation – and speaks directly to Australian race politics and multicultural identity today.