For 30 years, One Nation and Pauline Hanson have been ridiculed, dismissed and shut out. Now, no one is laughing. This is the story of how a party built on fear and grievance thrived, died and rose again to upend Australian politics.
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One Nation is polling at levels it hasn’t seen in 25 years. Is this surge a protest or a realignment? And what, if anything, comes after Hanson herself?
The party’s already notched up 33 million views on YouTube. It doesn’t need us.
How has a party that’s never held government, never been in opposition and had so few members in parliament managed to shape the public policy agenda?
Most political parties fear a scandal, but not One Nation. The defections, punch-ups, chaos and controversies mount, and yet it survives.
Every populist movement needs a threat. One Nation found several: Asian immigration, native title and Islam just to name a few. But do those enemies still resonate?
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Associate Lecturer in Public Policy, Flinders University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Research fellow, Far-Right Communication, Macquarie University
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Professor of Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Canberra
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Monash University
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Director of Master of Film and Screen Arts and Senior Lecturer, School of Art, Communication and English, University of Sydney