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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Let's try again, and this time actually write the name of the project properly - 'Culture, Democratic Resilience & the Challenge of the New Reactionary Right'. Trump and UFC, podcast bros, Karl Stefanovic, Rebel News, Kanye West, MAGA rappers...this is going to be great.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I am SO thrilled to have won an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship - I'll spend the next 4 years working on my project 'Culture, Democracy Resilience & the the Challenge of the New Reactionary Right'

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

But still "Last updated 21 May 2026" of course!

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For anyone, like me, awaiting FT results - tomorrow was the last day of the period they said they'd announce them - it's now gone to TBC (with no explanation why or public statement that this has happened, just a little edit to the scheme calendar)

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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 07/07/2026

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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...

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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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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

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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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Liam Hogan @liamhogan.id.au · 20/04/2026

It is remarkable how reliable this is. ONP was up, and it was a question of the future of populism, now they’re down and it’s their failure, the actual government is ambiguously kind of supporting a war, there’s inflation coming, fuel prices are up, but through it all the Greens stay on 12

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Josh Holloway @jholloway.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Some of the best journalism on party finance and organisational structure I've seen in a long time. Much of it aligning with a known pattern over decades, but still interesting to see - and adds to my suspicion of PHON as a lasting force. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

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Pauline Hanson’s One Nation banks millions in public funding. Where does all the money go?

Exclusive: Former candidates accuse party of enriching itself at their expense, while insiders lift veil on chaos in Brisbane HQ – and staffers’ contempt for rank-and-file members

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

If Matt Goodwin is speaking in Budapest, 5pm today, he has kept v quiet about being there. He posted extensively about Hungary's 2018, 2022 election results, but nothing at all on 2026

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

What a joy it was to wake up in Australia this morning to the news out of Hungary. A wonderful day for my Hungarian friends and colleagues, and a reminder for the rest of us that politics is always open and contingent, that nothing is destiny. What a great day.

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Pavlos Vasilopoulos @pavlosvas1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

The bleak trend in new openings in politics academic jobs should be clearly explained to prospective PhD applicants. Landing an academic job is much, much harder than it was a few years ago.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

It's always good to have a target market

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

If we are lucky, Victoria might actually be able to elect a properly democratic upper house this November. Time to put old mate Glenn Druery out of business

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Adem Somyurek and Bernie Finn likely waiting in the wings

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

🚨What you won't read in the British media: on X, journalist @twelves.bsky.social has looked at Matt Goodwin's new book, Suicide of a Nation, and found that is packed full of fake quotes and material that appears to have been made up by AI.

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@andytwelves: EXC: .@GoodwinMJ’s new book “Suicide of a Nation: Immigration, Islam, Identity” is out now, and I’m only 5 chapters in and have found a huge amount of what appears to be false quotes and...

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

That match up between lower and upper house votes - and a related drop in the Liberal vote (about 17% down in each) - tells you that something serious is going on. If this continues with the Farrar by-election (9 May) and Vic state election (28 Nov), we're probably talking a serious realignment

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Following the SA election, keep seeing some version of "One Nation got 22% of the total vote, but only 0 or 1 or 2 seats haha". Sure. That's the electoral system. If we had proportional rep, people would not be laughing. They also got 24% in the Upper House, where they will win probably 3 seats.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Um, the second-biggest party in the polls right now is One Nation. Populism has arguably never been as "alive" in Australia as this very moment.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Like this piece says, preferential voting is great, and on balance, I think mandatory voting is probably a net positive. But they don't save you from populism.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

The thing that "killed" populism in Australia in the late 90s and early 2000s for a whole is that John Howard adopted One Nation's policy platform, mainstreamed it. And that was a horrible development.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Um, the second-biggest party in the polls right now is One Nation. Populism has arguably never been as "alive" in Australia as this very moment.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Clive Palmer and Ralph Babet reunited at last

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I really don't think after almost 30 years of One Nation that voters have suddenly gone "hey, I like them!" ON have done nothing particularly different. The story here is that the Coalition are in total political identity meltdown mode. ON are not the only party that should be capitalising on that.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

I keep looking at these projections thinking that the one big thing that could arrest ON's rise is seriously-well-funded community independents in the McGowan mode in every single Coalition seat. But there are real limits to waiting on one guy/organisation to fund those for the good of lib democracy

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

One Nation (Hansonist) One Nation (Ashbyist) One Nation (Joyceist) One Nation (Queensland) One Nation (City/Country) One Nation (MAGA) One Nation (Hansonist-Joyceist-Katterist) One Nation (Patriotic) One Nation (United Patriots) One Nation (Reform) One Nation (Parliamentary) One Nation (Bernardiist)

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André Brett @drdrehistorian.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

If this actually happened, within a year we would have more One Nation splinter parties than there are Nepali communist parties

Wikipedia table showing some of the parties at the 2008 election, including 7 separate groupings called "Communist Party of Nepal (ideology-of-choice)"

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Anglosphere agony vs Nordic nirvana. (PS Can't believe I'd never seen this graph before, so grateful to @stephenkb.bsky.social for sharing in his fab morning newsletter (www.ft.com/inside-polit...)

Graph of average annual fees for BA/BSc or equivalent courses in the OECD showing England as the most expensive and Nordics the least

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Matt Canavan elected as Nationals leader and Clive Palmer announces he will run again for Parliament. What a bumper day for right-wing populism in Australia.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I know I wrote the book on populism and performance, but god, I didn't mean the performance thing literally

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Anna-Sophie Heinze @asheinze.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

🎉 New publication 😍 The 4th wave of the #farright is marked by #mainstreaming & #normalisation - but how can we distinguish between them? In our new article, @gefjonoff.bsky.social and I map the existing literature, introduce a conceptual framework & outline research avenues. doi.org/10.1017/S147...

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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Well done to Nigel Farage for convincing Matt Goodwin to run for an urban seat with a large ethnic minority population. I think we now can be sure who did the numbers for Revolt on the Right.

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Sophie E. Hill @sophieehill.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

*deep breath* a hahah ahHahahahahHAhahahhahhhaaaaaaaaaheeheeeeee heehehe

screenshot of GB News interview with Matt Goodwin with banner "Green Party Wins By-Election"

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Amarnath Amarasingam @amaramarasingam.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

CALL FOR CHAPTERS! Me and @grahammacklin.bsky.social are putting together an edited collection looking at the use of pseudoscientific ideas by extremist movements. If you are interested, please send us your abstracts at this link: forms.gle/mAUtpDGNEj9i...

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Reminds me of high school or undergrad English classes where someone would bring in a totally unrelated book and place it on their desk, just desperately waiting to be asked about it. "Oh, this little thing? It's just something I'm reading at the moment". What an absolute tryhard

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Do you guys buy the 'we are getting organised' stuff? Can't work out if it's just Ashby hot air or there's actually stuff happening on the ground/behind the scenes.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Really good stuff Kurt. Am I crazy, or was Ashby promising two "bombshell" announcements this week of new ON recruits?

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

If I had to bet, I do think they will fall apart before the next election.But I also have seen populist radical right parties that have been absolute organisational messes get their act together & prosper very quickly in Sweden, France & the Netherlands. It's not impossible.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Great piece by the two academics in Oz who knows One Nation best. I am increasingly worried that we can't assume the infighting/dysfunction will continue though - and even if it does, whether relying on this position is too passive at a time when they are soaring in the polls.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Yes, that's in line with what I said - they aren't going to pick up any ON voters

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

That's genuinely fascinating, I hadn't thought about the specifics of Brisbane in that regard.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

You're absolutely right. We forget about them sometimes, but they just chug along pretty well in state elections without much airtime at all.

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Which I guess would also go with the fetishisation of door-knocking/boots on the ground etc - local politics as 'real' politics

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Is this a local politics vs national politics thing? I.e. it's a lot easier to tailor a specific message to a metro renter constituency (Sri) vs the realities of trying to win votes from a much more dispersed and heterogenous electorate nationally?

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