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Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

🚨 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...

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5 | The Making of One Nation: master the media

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

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Pandanus Petter @pandanuspetter.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

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...

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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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Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

🚨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...

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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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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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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

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

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Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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...

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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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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

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

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Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

🚨 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...

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'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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Carly Lubicz @carlylubicz.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

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.

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Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

🚨 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...

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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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Duncan McDonnell @duncanmcdonnell.com · 04/02/2026

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...

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

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...

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

🔥 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/...

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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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Mark Riboldi @markriboldi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

...'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

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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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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

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...

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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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Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

🚨 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...

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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 @mariansawer.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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...

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Elizabeth Humphrys @lizhumphrys.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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....

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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. 🧵

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Katharina Esau @kathaesa.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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

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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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 ✨

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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

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...

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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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Christian Downie @christiandownie.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

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 🧵

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Todd Farrell @toddfarrell.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

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

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Ben Raue @benraue.com · 11/12/2025

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

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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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Kurt Sengul @kurtsengul.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

🌈 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...

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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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

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Alessandro Nai @alessandronai.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

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 🧵

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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Was great to work on this report with Adele Webb and @maxgroemping.bsky.social! I learnt a lot working on this report, and I'm glad it's out there in the world.

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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

An interesting alternative to the Oz social media ban - youth-led movements trying to reshape big tech and harmful practices

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Ben Raue @benraue.com · 09/12/2025

Today's blog post dives into history and looks at how the Coalition has responded to past Labor moves to expand the size of the parliament, why the attitude of the National Party changed between 1948 and 1983, and what that has to do with redistribution rules. #auspol

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The Nationals and expanding the parliament

Recent reporting, and my own experience, indicates that the federal Labor government is seriously considering an expansion in the size of the Australian federal parliament, echoing the previous exp…

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Mark Riboldi @markriboldi.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Great to see this event we organised, with funds from @auspsa.bsky.social and featuring George Megalogenis, @frankbongiorno.bsky.social @bspiesbutcher.bsky.social @lizhumphrys.bsky.social & @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social has been made into a podcast by UTS Impact Studios. pod.link/1760672339/e...

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Ben Raue @benraue.com · 02/12/2025

The Victorian Electoral Matters Committee has recommended that group voting tickets be abolished as soon as possible, with an independent process after 2026 to come to a proposal on a referendum to change the upper house electoral structure. My take is here: #springst

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Victoria moves towards abolishing GVT

The Electoral Matters Committee of the Victorian Parliament yesterday brought down the final report for their inquiry into Victoria’s upper house electoral system. The report brings Victoria …

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Daniel Casey 🎗️✡️ @danielcaseycbr.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Great panel @auspsa.bsky.social yesterday discussing AI/ChatGPT in teaching, with Blair Williams, Diane Perche, Rob Manwaring @mussagulova.bsky.social and Narelle Miragliotta. I’ve written about my experience with this in @ausjpa.bsky.social

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Sofia Ammassari @ammassarisofia.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Back from Melbourne after the @auspsa.bsky.social conference ✨ I enjoyed taking part in the plenary on the future of the discipline. It touched on some big questions - the rise of AI, the open science movt, the harsh realities of the academic job market. A timely & thought-provoking discussion.

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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

An Australian export I am not proud of - Nous consultants strike again with bad advice for universities - this time at Edinburgh Uni 🤦🏻‍♀️ www.theferret.scot/consultancy-...

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‘Nousferatu’: the notorious consultancy advising Edinburgh uni amid 'huge' cuts

Scotland’s largest university has turned to Nous Group at the same time as it is making savings that could lead to nearly 2,000 job losses. Staff say they were misled about the extent of its work.

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Katrine Beauregard @katrinebeau.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Please to see my book chapter co-authored with @blairwilliams26.bsky.social on gender equality in state politics is finally out! Check it out!

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Benjamin Moffitt @benmoffitt.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

Rather gobsmacked & honoured to find that I have been named Australia's top researcher in political science by The Australian! www.theaustralian.com.au/special-repo...

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emilyrosefoley.bsky.social @emilyrosefoley.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Rob and I are in the Conversation this week!

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Pandanus Petter @pandanuspetter.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

It's thrilled city population me today because Juliet Pietsch, @cosmohoward.bsky.social & I's latest Fair Go work is out now. Interested in what Aussies think Fair Go means & whether those beliefs explain attitudes to the inclusion of migrants? Check it out! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Fairness and Belonging: Public Attitudes Towards Migration and Symbolic Boundaries

In Australia, ideals of fairness, merit, and inclusion are said to be reflected in national identity through the concept of the fair go. While the fair go embodies the right to fair opportunities for....

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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Very excited to announce our ECPR Joint Sessions workshop on Symbolic politics & policy, that I am co-directing with the inimitable Florence Faucher of Sciences Po Please submit a paper and come join us for a great few days of discussion!

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Ariadne Vromen @ariadnevromen.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

This is such a lovely post on mentors in academia - they are there at the start, and many stay important all the way through your career. As a sounding board, or writing yet another reference for you! I’ve been lucky to have three people I consider great mentors & who helped me pay it forward too

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Pandanus Petter @pandanuspetter.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

@marijataflaga.bsky.social @markriboldi.bsky.social and I have a chat about UBIs & crisis thinking in housing and social welfare policy. I haven't listened, so if I say anything regrettable just know I've grown and changed since back then (yesterday). 😱🏠💰🗣️ reporter.anu.edu.au/all-stories/...

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Democracy Sausage: Safety nets below and a roof above

Political scientists Mark Riboldi and Pandanus Petter join Democracy Sausage to discuss housing policy, safety nets and the fair go.

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