How do non-party actors view far-right parties in Australia? @imogenrichards.bsky.social, Callum Jones, Jordan McSwiney & @kurtsengul.bsky.social explore perceptions & relationships within the far-right ecosystem beyond formal politics. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/RIP41sg @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social

🚨 I spoke to The ABC for this story on the future of the far right in Australia… www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

@kurtsengul.bsky.social analyses how spaces are used by far-right online communities. 🔷Drawing on #CriticalDiscoursAnalysis & #netography, the analysis the prominent role of spaces in electoral campaigns. 🔷It also shows the need of adapted methods. ⬇️⬇️ bsky.app/profile/kurt...

I wrote this. Every journalist, social media producer and news influencer in Aus should read it & memorise @whiterosesociety.bsky.social principles of reporting. Huge thank you to @kurtsengul.bsky.social for invaluable expertise, I was very tempted to publish all your answers verbatim. #auspol

🚨I spoke to Crikey for this story on the need for better media reporting on the far right! Long story short: stop giving neo-Nazis propaganda wins www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/05/h...

🚨 New article in The Conversation from Callum Jones and myself. We wanted to focus specifically on how the white nationalist rallies were supported and amplified online by far-right actors like Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson theconversation.com/how-australi...

🚨 New article in The Conversation from Callum Jones and myself. We wanted to focus specifically on how the white nationalist rallies were supported and amplified online by far-right actors like Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson theconversation.com/how-australi...

I spoke to the ABC about the white nationalist March for Australia rallies taking place this weekend But one unfortunate downside of researching the far right is being referred to as “a far-right researcher” in the media www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

🚨 We have a new article out in Political Studies Will hopefully be of interest to scholars of the far-right, party politics, social movements, and anyone drawing breath really Led by the excellent Imogen Richards, & Callum Jones & with Jordan McSwiney & me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 We have a new article out in Political Studies Will hopefully be of interest to scholars of the far-right, party politics, social movements, and anyone drawing breath really Led by the excellent Imogen Richards, & Callum Jones & with Jordan McSwiney & me journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🚨 We’ve added a pre-print of our forthcoming chapter ‘Harmful Visual Humour on Far-Right Social Media: Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Reactionary Memes’ ✍️ The chapter is forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics (2026) www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I spoke to @euronews.com this week about the Trump administration’s use of Generative AI www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

I spoke to @euronews.com this week about the Trump administration’s use of Generative AI www.euronews.com/culture/2025...

List some examples of research impact Me: Uhh, I’m one of the citations on Laura Loomer’s Wikipedia page?

Blair Williams and I are co-editing a special issue of the Australian Journal of Political Science on LGBTQIA+ politics in Australia 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ We’re thrilled to see the first paper of the issue now online by Emerita Professor Carol Johnson: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Elon Musk is in the news again - and we know he's talked a lot about the 'woke mind virus'. But what does the 'war on woke' look like here in Australia? Check our Marian Sawer & @kurtsengul.bsky.social's new article on the topic in the Australian Journal of Political Science @auspsa.bsky.social

🚨 Happy to see my new paper with Prof Marian Sawer out in the Australian Journal of Political Science The good news: it’s open access The bad news: It’s about the “war on woke” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🚨 Happy to see my new paper with Prof Marian Sawer out in the Australian Journal of Political Science The good news: it’s open access The bad news: It’s about the “war on woke” www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really excited to be getting my first PhD student next month. So I’m actually *happy* to be doing modules today

Proofing on a Saturday. Could be worse

Oh cool

🚨 Neo-Nazis were allowed to set the media and political agenda for a week during the Australian election We wrote about the abhorrent Welcome to Country stunt and the critical failure of the media in the ABC’s Religion & Ethics www.abc.net.au/religion/eth...

The biggest media loser from #AusVotes2025 is Sharri Markson: Claimed the polls were wrong, called a Labor majority “a fantasy”, parroted “high level” Liberal sources suggesting they’d win 65 seats and even insinuated that her own organisation’s Newspoll was rigging their polls in favour of Labor

A textbook case of neo-Nazi agenda setting in three parts: 1. Neo-Nazi disrupts a Welcome to Country on ANZAC day 2. Conservative media: Well I don’t agree with their methods, but they’re right on the issue 3. Opposition leader: Welcome to Country ceremonies are “overdone”

🚨 Thrilled to share my latest publication with Jay Daniel Thompson I’m really excited to see this (finally) published. We hope it adds another voice to critical conversations surrounding the problematic relationship between news media and the far right journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Another day, another far-right influencer complaining about the polarized dating market I wrote about this with the emergence of the right-wing dating app, The Right Stuff www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Since its trending over on the bad site, if anyone wants to read my new article on the far-right’s use of X/Twitter Spaces, it’s open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Happy to share my latest open-access research which examines the use of Twitter’s live-audio conversational feature, Spaces, with far-right communities I argue that the Elon Musk backed Spaces has emerged as a powerful communicative tool for the far-right www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I contributed to this ABC story on the Australian far-right news site The Noticer which routinely publishes neo-Nazi content and has been shared by sitting parliamentarians www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04...

🚨 Happy to share my latest open-access research which examines the use of Twitter’s live-audio conversational feature, Spaces, with far-right communities I argue that the Elon Musk backed Spaces has emerged as a powerful communicative tool for the far-right www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The one job I don’t mind doing on the weekend? Proofs

A nice lil treat in the inbox. I’m excited for this paper to see the light of day

🚨 Very thrilled to see my latest article out in the world (open access) It looks at the far-right dating app, The Right Stuff which boasts “profiles without pronouns” and was co-founded by Trump administration AND Project 2025 alumni www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

🚨 Very thrilled to see my latest article out in the world (open access) It looks at the far-right dating app, The Right Stuff which boasts “profiles without pronouns” and was co-founded by Trump administration AND Project 2025 alumni www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Starting off the paper with a bang

Academia has been a bit of a slow grind lately, so I was really pleased to get some unexpected good news today: - My paper on right-wing dating apps was accepted for publication in Discourse, Context & Media - Our ARC Discovery Project was shortlisted Honestly, thank fuck 🥺

First time being shortlisted for a Discovery Project ❤️ Little milestones

What a disgusting and chilling attack on academic freedom by the Australian Research Council Dr Abdel-Fattah is completely undeserving of this appalling political interference As a Macquarie academic, I hope my university fights this tooth and nail

I’ll take it

Late to this, but sending solidarity to my Macquarie colleague Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah. An extraordinary attack on the academic freedom of one of this continent’s leading anti-racist scholars

Why we need to pay attention to far-right humour? Post by me and Jordan McSwiney

Downloads Gmail app. Immediately turns off badge notifications

“Why am I writing about right-wing dating apps?” I ask myself before I remembering that I voluntary chose to write this paper 😂

I see we’re still doing this 🤦‍♀️

I’m quite confident that the same person has reviewed two papers that I currently have under submission On the one hand I’m super frustrated at some of their comments, but on the other I’m incredibly grateful for their prolific service to the discipline 😂

🚨 For those interested, the Australian Senate has just published the findings of its inquiry into right-wing extremist movements in Australia We’re still working through it, but pleased to see the committee engage with our submission throughout www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

Working on some revisions. This was not a pleasant change to make

I’ve just joined the editorial board of Springer’s “Language of Politics” series If you have an idea for a manuscript that sits at the intersection of politics, communication, linguistics and discourse, you should consider this (very productive) series. www.springer.com/series/17019...

We're very pleased to have it in our forthcoming edited volume