By Kirsty Needham

SYDNEY, Dec 3 (Reuters) – Australia’s flame-haired populist Senator Pauline Hanson and her anti-immigration party have rocketed up opinion polls, nearing a peak seen three decades ago when she first entered politics and pushed conservative parties to harden border policies.

The resurgence of Hanson’s One Nation coincides with U.S. President Donald Trump’s tougher message on migration, which has included the U.S. embassy in Australia being instructed to collect migrant-linked crime data as Washington urged U.S. diplomats to lobby against mass migration.

Yet Hanson’s revival as a political force is likely more driven by local factors including cost-of-living pressures, housing shortages and historically high migration which have driven voter dissatisfaction, analysts and

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