Award-winning author David Marr was in conversation at a recent Eat, Drink and be Literary event on campus to discuss his new Quarterly Essay, The White Queen, One Nation and the Politics of Race. In the essay, he looks at Australia’s politics of fear, resentment and race, and asks, who votes for One Nation, and why, and how should the major parties respond to anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim.
David Marr's Quarterly Essay, The White Queen, captures the highlights of Pauline Hanson's career well, but the focus on Hanson overlooks a much bigger picture - political discontent in Australia’s regions is not new. The challenge to established political parties and the threat of minor parties is a broader issue that will likely continue - whether the One Nation Party implodes again or not.
In previous Quarterly Essays, David Marr has turned his merciless pen to powerful men of the establishment: George Pell, Kevin Rudd, Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten.In his new biographical essay, however, Marr’s subject is a self-styled populist outlier and a woman: Pauline Hanson. As Australian political figures go, they don’t come much more colourful than Hanson.
In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia s brand of the politics of resentment now sweeping the world.Pauline Hanson is not alone out there A million votes are in play Strategists in both Labor and the Coalition are asking, what can we give them At stake are the progressive hopes of most Australians, hopes held hostage than ever to the fears In this timely Quarterly Essay.
Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia's politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How m.
Some people consider Pauline Hanson to be the Donald Trumpette of the Antipodes, the local queenpin of an international populist movement. Hanson herself promotes this narrative. Yet as David Marr asserts in White Queen, hers is indisputably “an Australian story”. But if the rise and fall and rise and rise of Hanson and her One Nation party seem at times like a riddle wrapped in a joke.
Quarterly Essay: The White Queen, One Nation and the politics of race Most Australians despise what Pauline Hanson stands for, yet politics in this country is now orbiting around One Nation. In this timely Quarterly Essay, David Marr looks at Australia’s politics of fear, resentment and race. Who votes One Nation, and why? How much of this is due to inequality? How much to racism? How should.