Senate swings with different shades of Right (Advocate 23 03)

By Grahame McCulloch. Australian politics and culture has not yet seen a rightward shift akin to Donald Trump’s Republican nomination, the rise of Marine Le Pen, the Brexit vote or the proliferation of right wing nationalist parties and governments in Central and Eastern Europe. But many of the same underlying tensions driving these European forces can be seen at play in the big swing against the major parties in the 2016 Senate. More...