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Pauline Hanson's multiracial Australia shift puts supporters to the test

Pauline Hanson’s apparent acceptance of a multiracial Australia may expose deep tensions within ...  
After Pauline Hanson, Richard Marles makes more sense

Richard Marles' warning that xenophobia weakens Australia's strategic relationships took on new si ...  
How Pauline Hanson turned grievance into political power

Pauline Hanson has built a political career on grievance and outsider appeal, but her growing ...  
How the Right radicalised its own voters

Mainstream conservative parties helped create the conditions for the Far-Right's rise by norm ...  
The Socceroos, One Nation and the politics of belonging

As Australia celebrates the multicultural Socceroos on the world stage, the rise of One Nation ...  
Royal Commission under fire for excluding Palestinian perspectives

The Royal Commission into Antisemitism has sparked debate over free speech, protest rights and the ...  
The more powerful you are, the more unaccountable in media

Media neutrality is enabling powerful figures to normalise racism while ordinary people face ...  
The hypocrisy at the heart of the LNP’s migration rhetoric

The LNP’s mixed messaging on migration risks undermining its attempts to court multicultural ...  
Australian values and the long shadow of racial fear

As politicians invoke “Australian values” as a test of belonging, Australia’s own history ...  
Two magistrates, two questions and the limit of Queensland’s speech laws

Two Brisbane cases may test Queensland’s speech laws in court, but the deeper question is why ...  
Antisemitism and Israel: A challenge to the Australian narrative

A provocative Royal Commission submission by Dr Evan Jones argues that Australia’s antisemitism ...  
Australian Values compliance for One Nation voters? Well done Angus!

Angus Taylor's social media vetting of Australian values for visa holders will be costly, lab ...  
Beneath the anti-Zionist Big Banana

Our political leaders keep making tone-deaf, overbearing laws, then watch them get almost immed ...  
Remembering Desmond Filby: Sovereign Citizen and accused child flasher

Desmond Filby, the man commonly called by the media "Dezi Freeman", was shot by police, but shou ...  
Bot swarms celebrate as South Australia confirms it's 20% racist

Pauline Hanson’s One Nation (PHON) has reaped just over 20 per cent of the vote in Saturday’s ...  
Beware the right-wing race to the MAGA bottom

Australia’s conservative parties are sliding into a Trump-style contest to see who can harness ...  
Surround and conquer: When bullying runs a campaign

A covert campaign of pressure and manipulation can isolate a target while leaving the true arch ...  
Belonging across borders: A Muslim Australian response to fear and division

A Muslim Australian reflects on migration, service and community to challenge fear-based rhetoric ...  
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