🚨 I recorded a podcast for @theconversation.com’s The Making of One Nation’ series. My episode focuses the role of the media in the rise of Pauline Hanson There are some other cracking episodes, including @benmoffitt.bsky.social and @joshsunman.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/t...

5 | The Making of One Nation: master the media

Podcast Episode · The Making of One Nation · 29 April · 25min

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Had a go at summarizing Albo and Co's achievements since re-election in 2025. They've been beavering away at a variety of reforms which were well targeted toward people's concerns last election, but is it still what people want? Is it enough? theconversation.com/a-year-on-fr...

A year on from the election, what has the Albanese government achieved?

The government has been working to fulfil its modest promises and address people’s pressing concerns. But not everything is going according to plan.

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🚨Pauline Hanson was apparently a hot commodity at the “Science Meets Parliament” dinner this year How should the scientific community engage with anti-science parties like One Nation? I contributed a few thoughts to this interesting piece in The Monthly ✍️ www.themonthly.com.au/may-2026/nat...

She blinded me with pretence

At what point do selfies with Pauline Hanson at the annual “Science Meets Parliament” dinner legitimise One Nation’s misinformation campaigns?

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What are the stakes for One Nation - and perhaps more importantly, the Liberals - in the byelections over the coming weeks? Zareh Ghazerian & I on the big questions facing the parties here lens.monash.edu/pauline-hans...

One Nation’s moment of truth

Rising polls and key byelections in Farrer and Nepean could make or break Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, and its push into the lower house.

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The formidable @joshsunman.bsky.social brought me with him to provide some historical and comparative context for One Nation's surge in the polls.

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 5mo ago

One Nation and leader Pauline Hanson have been on the Australian political scene for 30 years, making waves here and there but never as more than a small, right-wing populist party. So what's changed? 👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/one-nat...

I spoke to Jenna Price for this cracking piece in the Canberra Times on Pauline Hanson’s latest Islamophobic tirade Jenna takes Hanson to task, and doesn’t miss ⬇️ www.canberratimes.com.au/story/917875...

This is a desperate attempt to remain in the public eye. Australia shouldn't buy into it

Canavan can tell the kind of pomposity Australians loathe.

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Women’s Pathways to Power: Cracking the Glass Ceiling

Women’s Pathways to Power: Cracking the Glass Ceiling provides an interdisciplinary study of the lingering impediments obstructing women’s access to power to attain democratic equality, comprising the...

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This new book Women’s Pathway to Power arrived today - edited by my great friend @acarson.bsky.social

🚨 I spoke to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) with some colleagues about One Nation’s meteoric rise Some really good data visualisation in this Story Lab piece www.abc.net.au/news/2026-02...

'I am shocked': Unpacking One Nation's spectacular rise in the polls

Pauline Hanson's One Nation has seen the fastest polling rise in modern Australian politics. What is going on?

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Some thoughts from @cazuarina.bsky.social and I about some of the key elements and drivers involved in the complex issue of information integrity, with a particular focus on climate change and energy in Australia. Timely with the Select Committee into this issue having new public hearings this week.

QUT Digital Media Research Centre@qutdmrc.bsky.social · 6mo ago

New podcast episode available! Your host Klaus Groebner chatted with Caroline Gardam and Carly Lubicz-Zaorski about misinformation on Climate Change and Energy.

🚨 New article by me and Jordan McSwiney in The Conversation about One Nation’s long history of dysfunction, infighting and scandal, and why this is will be one of the biggest barriers to the party translating its polling surge into electoral success theconversation.com/can-one-nati...

Can One Nation turn its polling hype into seats in parliament? History shows it will struggle

Pauline Hanson’s party has been dysfunctional and scandal-ridden for its entire existence. Capitalising on strong polling will mean changing decades-old patterns.

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What Sofia is too modest to explicitly say in her post below, is that - in addition to our PRR youth wings book - she has a solo one coming out with OUP in June on grassroots women in the PRR: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Sofia Ammassari@ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 6mo ago

And this is one of *two* books on the populist radical right that you should be looking forward to in June 😃

Great to see this piece in @themandarin.bsky.social discussing our (w Maria Maley) study on how the APS internally communicated (and learnt?) about Robodebt doi.org/10.1080/1350...

Doug@dougincanberra.bsky.social · 10mo ago

AI adoption in the shadow of robodebt www.themandarin.com.au/299754-ai-ar...

Could Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point really gain traction in Australia? I spoke to Tory Shepherd from @theguardian.com for this piece ✍️ www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

From cute dogs to Turning Point: the journey of an influencer aiming to breathe rightwing Christian values into Australian politics

Emboldened by major successes in the US and UK, the conservative Christian organisation Turning Point has its sights set on Australia’s political ecosystem

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🔥 NEW ARTICLE ALERT 🔥 The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational in @bjpir.bsky.social with Benjamin de Cleen & Panos Panayotu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

The five spatial political logics of populism: An analytical framework and research agenda for studying the populist politicisation of space from the local to the transnational - Benjamin De Cleen, Be...

How does populism interact with space? While it is increasingly acknowledged that populism operates across geographical scales from the local to the transnation...

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...'a global network of free-market think tanks to target the "intellectuals" in society, and to market their ideas like toothpaste to win the "battle for ideas"...' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01... #auspol #thinktanks #agendasetting

A discreet intellectual network has been reshaping the world for 70 years. Here's how

A constant battle of ideas reshapes the world we live in, and few groups have been more successful in winning the war than the little-known Atlas Network.

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You can hear the ACTU and myself talk about the impact of heatwaves and high temperatures on workers on ABC AM this morning. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Heatwave poses threat to workers - ABC listen

Australians have been finding different ways to cope with the extreme heat this week.

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🚨 Chuffed to see my new chapter with Jordan McSwiney published Racism, Amplification and Mainstreaming: News Media and the Australian Far Right The chapter features in a vital new book ‘The Far Right and the Media’, brilliantly edited by Imogen Richards 🥳 www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Racism, Amplification, and Mainstreaming | 4 | News media and the Aust

This chapter critically explores the relationship between news media and the far right. The role of news media in the amplification, mainstreaming and

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Marian Sawer In the run up to Australia Day the annual culture war is being waged against 'the elites trying to steal our day'. This time it has combined with outrage about Australian Research Council funding of an Indigenous project called Change the date? johnmenadue.com/post/2026/01...

I also have something really nice to share, the first article from our hi vis workwear and workers project is out — a collaboration with Jesse Adams Stein and Bettina Frankham, all from the Faculty of Design & Society at @utsengage.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New year and new article out in @ausjpolsci.bsky.social with Mark Chou, Rachel Busbridge & Luke Dean: Mapping the ‘fringe’ in Australian local politics We provide the first systematic analysis of fringe candidates in the 2024 NSW & VIC local government elections. 🧵

Planning to start a PhD in Media and Communications in 2026? Come work with me and others at the @qutdmrc.bsky.social! ✨

QUT Digital Media Research Centre@qutdmrc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

PhD scholarship applications are open for a project investigating how public opinion is formed in online spaces, with a focus on the deliberative quality of discussions, social influence dynamics, and platform affordances and governance across major digital platforms. www.qut.edu.au/.../strength....

Given the bad cold that I've had for the past few days (in the midst of the Australian summer 🤦‍♀️), waking up to this email was particularly sweet... Coming soon in @ejprjournal.bsky.social: our YOUMEM study on gender differences in motivations for joining youth wings of young women and men ✨

Rob Manwaring and I are in British Politics this January. We examine the policy and ideological orientation of Keir Starmer’s Labour government through a comparative analysis with five recent centre-left governments. It's open access too! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A new era of ‘minimal social democracy’? Comparing UK Labour under Keir Starmer - British Politics

British Politics - This article examines the policy and ideological orientation of Keir Starmer’s Labour government following its landslide victory at the 2024 UK General Election. Through a...

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Which groups mobilise on #climate policy in Australia? 📣 Darren Halpin and I have a new paper out in @environmentalpol.bsky.social that systematically maps who mobilises on climate policy in Australia, what side of the issue they fall on, and in which arenas they mobilise. Key finding include 🧵

Gonna need to add a bit more to this work in progress, huh?

Today's blog post is my last one for the year and it examines the question of whether the 2PP (Labor vs Liberal) is meaningful in seats where it is a Liberal vs Independent contests (mostly the teal seats) #auspol

How meaningful is the Labor 2PP in the teal seats?

For the final blog post of 2025, I wanted to look at a question that has come up regularly in the comments, and on psephological websites: how meaningful is the two-party-preferred vote, particular…

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🌈 Very excited to share my new article with @barrieshannon.com in the Australian Journal of Political Science ‘Mainstreaming LGBTQIA+ hate: the far right’s anti-gender countermovement in Australia’ url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/q4GHCROND2...

Here is our conversation article accompanying the launch of our report!

The Conversation AUNZ@aunz.theconversation.com · 8mo ago

A new report shows Australians don’t want to be reduced to merely voters. They want a democracy that listens, including between elections.

After 3 years and 5,322 emails (and counting) our Encyclopedia of Political Communication is finally out at @elgarpublishing.bsky.social 📚 Three volumes ⭐ 431 entries 🎓 581 wonderful authors from across the world A very short 🧵