With Mali also talking about his issues with woke ideologies (and anti-woke ideology tbf) and how anti-gas politicians are 'eco-purists', it seems like the SA Labor party is taking a concentrated move Right through the centre. Interesting with the election coming to say the least. #saparli #auspol

NEW PARTY ALERT (SA 2026 ELECTION)! The Australian Citizens Party have applied for registration in SA. They literally just made the deadline by the skin of their teeth. As such, I've updated the party tracker with them. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

I've updated my candidate tracker once more, removing Susan Close and Stephen Mullighan from their seats and adding two new candidates, Jessica Nies (Legalise Cannabis) and Mark Neugebauer (Independent), to the Legislative Council. See below for details. #saparli #auspol

It won't make the headlines, but Flinders (as per the article) is consulting on whether to dismantle its college of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, meaning neither university in South Australia would have one. 'Lovely' news to hear this morning. #history 🗃️ #saparli

New update on the tracker, talking about the Liberals promising 50c fares, how the Greens did it first, and how its the first big mistake by SA Labor in a while to not match the promise. #auspol #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

I've updated the SA politics tracker with the new cabinet ministers, alongside my thoughts. Abit of a quick update, but a good one for keeping track of changes (as is the point of the tracker aha). #auspol #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

I've updated the tracker once more, this time with Susan Close and Stephen Mullighan's retirement, as well as Sarah Game's anti-abortion push. As always, I've linked relevant articles and news clips for your convinence! #auspoL #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

Big news coming out of SA today, Peter Malinauskas has announced that Deputy Premier Susan Close and Treasurer Stephen Mullighan will not be recontesting the 2026 state election. I've attached the announcement below, and will update the tracker with my thoughts, but this is big. #auspol #saparli

Holy shit, excellent news

SA Libs have a talent pool with the depth of the residue at the bottom of a kitchen sink after you rinse a plate

So, it looks like we now have a logo for Sarah Game's Fair Go for Australians party. And its... not the worst, however, it's also pretty derivative. It's either a mashup of Labor and Australia's Voice's logos, or a variant of the UWU logo. Way too similar to them at the very least. #auspol #saparli

Frank Pangallo has just admitted to using AI to come up with sources for his claims that SA's desalination plant has caused the algal bloom, though he says it was still a mistake. I've updated the tracker with this AIGate! #auspol #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

This was a really important episode to finish. When I started this podcast, the idea of getting to Federation (which I naively thought would only take 30 episodes) was still a pipedream. Through the last 94 episodes, I've gotten to overview Australian history in a way that brings me joy. #history 🗃️

kevinbonham.blogspot.com/2025/09/poll... Poll Roundup: Liberal Crisis As Honeymoon 2.0 Rumbles On My cross-poll estimate 56.3 to ALP (+1 since election and not changing quickly)

Today's blog post is a bit niche, but it's important. It seems like federal redistribution maps are drawn with too much consideration of not moving voters, and they are doing it more than they did in the past. #auspol

Australian shitposters need, nay deserve, a new season of #libspill and all buttons must be pressed to On forthwith

Long-time Pauline Hanson advisor Sean Bell has been named as One Nation's nominee to replace Warwick Stacey in the Senate, subject to the usual rubber-stamp approval by the NSW Parliament. www.onenation.org.au/sean-bell-to...

Lol, lmao even. If Hastie actually intends to follow through with this threat, the Libs will destroy themselves. Either they will drop net zero, losing Moderate members and many voters, or not do so and lost most of their right-wing members. Either way, net zero may be the end of the Libs. #auspol

Very excited that my new article with @andrekosvarnava.bsky.social has been published open access in @historicaljnl.bsky.social 'Transnational Whiteness and the Elite Backlash to Reforming the Australian Immigration Control System in the 1950s and 1960s' www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

They’ve been published for quite a while but it’s behind a paywall. I’ll unlock it in the new year. I published it the day I unlocked my federal guide www.tallyroom.com.au/59891

Statement from 6 News.

I've also done abit of a dive and found 4 more candidates to be added. This includes Legalise Cannabis' first candidate, Jeff Knipe for Chaffey, and three independents, Lou Nicholson, Airlie Keen, and Matt Schutlz. I'll put some info on them below. #saparli #auspol

The Liberals have put forward their 6 candidates for the Legislative Council, and so I have updated the tracker to give you some idea of who these candidates are. In addition, I've updated the spreadsheet with them as well! #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

A new update for the parties tracker! The SA Socialists have, finally, applied for registration, and as such move up from 'expected' to 'pending'. No other changes today, and I doubt we'll see many more from here on out. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

Found another one of these, this time in the 11 November 1932 issue of the 'South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus'. To be fair to these guys, L. Hawken was verbally insulted days prior about being a New Guardsmen, so I have to assume that caused them to do this. #history 🗃️

An exciting new campaign coming out of South Australia about drafting a 10 year state charter for democratic renewal, led by some former senior public servants and leading policy and legal academics. These are exactly the kind of people who should be leading a similar campaign here in Queensland!

Absolutely hilarious stuff happening over at the Coalition. I wonder if Price tries her hardest to crawl back to the Nationals? #auspol

And now I think I've found perhaps the most insane political candidate in any Australian state election. Harry Meatheringham, independent for Annadale, wanted to deport the Governor, make Archbishop Kelly 'King of Australia', and give double dole to women/children and nothing for men. #history 🗃️

I just found something hilarious in the Labor Daily from April 1932. Some person, a Carden V Dewhurst, took out ad space to state that they were not part of the New Guard. I really wonder what sequence of events made them feel the need to state that in such a weird place? #history 🗃️

Short update on the tracker today, talking about the Dry Creek golf course row that really is meaningless but showcases how 'bad' the Liberals are at politics right now and how Labor is 'running circles' around them in SA. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

Bunch of updates for the tracker today. Sarah Game restarting the abortion debate in SA, Alex Antic throwing out Nazi conspiracies, Mark Aldridge preparing more Marches, and Nicolle Flint returning once again, it's all happening. #saparlli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

On the topic of the Eureka flag and the Australian far right, I found this in the journal of the National Front of Australia from 1979. While other groups were invoking the legacy of the Eureka Stockade at the time, the NFA denounced it as 'treachery' and the Eureka flag called a 'badge of treason'.

Melbourne Uni needs to explain this bullshit. This is destroying critical cultural infrastructure. Unimelb axing Meanjin, ANU scuttling the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and then universities wonder why they can’t seem to exert any influence over the national discourse.

Literary journal Meanjin to close after 85 years of publishing www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...

Hey pocket friends. Just a heads up that if I'm suddenly blanking you after December, it's not you, it's my government.

Short update on the SA Politics tracker, essentially just noting that no by-election is happening in Mt Gambier after Troy Bell resigned. I suspect we'll see the party candidates appear more in the area from now on. #saparli #auspol anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

I've found that Kym Hanton, candidate for Spence in the 2025 Federal Election, was also at Adelaide's 'March' yesterday. Hanton was also a candidate for the Australian Federation Party in 2022 (which Mark Aldridge was the director of). #saparli #auspol

One thing I've emphasised in my research is the historical links between the Australian far right and movements overseas, particularly in the UK and US, but also South Africa and Rhodesia. A 🧵 of some of my work on this topic. www.academia.edu/44514478/Whi... www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Enjoy a quick dive into why Germany's far-right is experiencing growing support, and what makes them controversial (if that wasn't already evident) Part 2 of 4 open.substack.com/pub/politics...

Speaking of, I've updated the SA politics tracker to make note of Aldridge's participation in the March, as well as the appearance of his new party. Worth a read to know what he's up to. #auspol #saparli anthonyhistoryrant.blogspot.com/2025/08/sout...

To be a bit meta, nearly a decade ago, I actually wrote a blog post about turning blogs into academic papers. But now I am stuck! hatfulofhistory.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/t...

Got a few more updates for the list. This includes Mark Neugebauer and Jacob Van Raalte in Adelaide, Gary Hardgrave in Brisbane, and our first politician in Melbourne, Jordan Dittloff. Seems to be the 'whos who' of Australia's Right-wing. #auspol #saparli #springst #qldpol

I have many friends and colleagues who will read draft papers and give me great feedback on it, but what I really need is someone to read all of my 60-75 per cent done papers and tell me what I need to do to get it into shape.

I've set up a quick spreadsheet list of the politicians who we know attended the various marches today. Only a small group so far, but a telling one. If you know of any more, feel free to let me know and I'll add them, its important we keep track of what politicians support this. #auspol

Starting to hear recordings where those attending the fascist marches are turning on National Socialist Network members, chanting "we're not racist". Ignoring the massive irony of their chants, it seems many did not understand who/what are leading these marches (aka actual neo-nazis). #auspol

One of the fascist speakers, from either VIC/NSW, just blamed society's 'problems' on the appointment of Governor-General Sam Mostyn... I'll be very real, out of the real and imagined causes I've heard for any issue, this one is so blindsidingly confusing. Why is a fascist mad at the GG? #auspol

Keeping an eye out for politicians attending the anti-immigration/neo-nazi protests (good to know which of our representatives support this slop). So far I've seen Hanson and Malcolm Roberts in Canberra. If anyone else knows of other politicians elsewhere, let me know. #auspol #saparli

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Just found out some Jetstar flights depart from International terminals. Time to go through immigrations and customs just to get back to Adelaide from Perth lmao.

I've actually done a second round of updates just now, adding in some additional pre-selected candidates for Labor and Liberal (Adelaide & Unley are looking interesting). I also renamed Frome to Ngadjuri. #saparli #auspol