In recent years, whenever Australian family and friends commiserated about Brexit, or expressed surprise at my observation that the UK risked Nigel Farage becoming prime minister a year or more before it became accepted wisdom, we could at least take heart that Australia wasn’t following Britain down that path. That all changed last December, when prominent Nationals MP Barnaby Joyce left his party and joined Pauline Hanson’s One Nation. A week later, when two murdering bastards shot up a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi, Joyce and Hanson made an opportunistic appearance at a vigil afterwards, tying the event to Hanson’s longstanding anti-immigrant stance. It’s done the trick: after a collapse in support for the Liberal-National Coalition (now officially dead), right-wing Australians looking around for another party have now settled on the ratbag one. With fresh funding (including a free plane) from mining magnate Gina Rinehart, One Nation has risen sharply in the polls, winning a NSW…
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