Published: October 21, 2018
Pauline Hanson’s senate motion is just one example of a wider campaign to promote a niche ideological agenda
With all that’s happened in Australian politics in and around the fateful Wentworth byelection on the weekend, it’s confronting to realise that Australia’s hanging-by-a-thread parties of government, the conservative Liberal-National Coalition, voted for a racist 4-Chan meme in the senate only just last week.
Yet the context of that incident bears analysis in the wash-up of Wentworth. It’s signpost to the narrow universe of discourse Australia’s conservative movement has entered and goes some way to explaining how a shocking 18% swing was delivered against the government in one of the Liberals’ formerly safest – ever – seats.
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