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Warning: Australian politicians are importing the British right’s visions of doom | Jack Jacobs

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Warning: Australian politicians are importing the British right’s visions of doom | Jack Jacobs
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Having met Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson, Pauline Hanson is deploying their rhetoric in a country with a very different history of immigrationIn a 1950 essay, the critic AA Phillips wrote of a “cultural cringe” in which insecure Australians looked to Britain for instruction. Today, some Australians are championing far-right British actors and importing their visions of doom to Australia.In June, the former Australian Liberal prime minister Tony Abbott spoke at the Alliance for Res

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