This is an excellent piece on the term "reactionary" - a term I increasingly think is the core notion for understanding what is going on all around us

As with anything @lwestheuser.bsky.social has written, this paper is very much worth yr time

My colleague Ferran Martinez i Coma has a three year, full-time postdoc available for his Australian Research Council project "Resilient Elections: How to Strengthen Our Democracies." Great project ✔️ Awesome supervisor ✔️ Excellent department ✔️ Lovely City ✔️ jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

🚨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...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

New article by me in @aunz.theconversation.com which discusses how explaining March For Australia *solely* in reference to 'extreme' actors provides an alibi to the racism + nationalism of 'mainstream' Australia: theconversation.com/blaming-extr...

🚨 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...

Pretty much, yeah. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

New article by me: The March for Australia’s racism can’t just be blamed on far-right ‘extremists’ - it’s been enabled by the mainstream | Liam Gillespie www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

3-year, full-time post-doc position with my ‪@griffith.edu.au‬ friend & colleague, Ferran Martinez i Coma. Ferran is one of the key people who has made our department the top comparative politics research cluster in Australia. Please apply, share, etc. jobs.smartrecruiters.com/GriffithUniv...

NEW SUBMISSION CATEGORY ADDED! AJPS invites Reform Notes from practitioners and/or academics that set out proposed innovations about (or relevant to) aspects of Australian politics practice - e.g. proposals for or modifications to existing political institutions, procedures, laws and practices 1/4

same thing happened at the 2022 election where anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown groups had a negligible effect. for whatever reason — I'll let you speculate — there are big chunks of mainstream media and politics who elevate extreme anti-migration sentiment as if it is a strongly & widely held view.

So much for turning PHON into a family dynasty, not even her own daughter's on board Robert Katter (Sr, Jr, III), the Toms Playford, and the Anthonys of Richmond all laughing

🚨 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/...

New article out! @luke-shuttleworth.bsky.social, @k8ebrown.bsky.social & I teamed up to explore whether the concept of 'cordon sanitaire' remains useful in the current stage of mainstreaming of far right politics Read the full article, open access, here 1/ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🎉 Exciting milestone — my first academic publication from my PhD research 🎉 How do news outlets decide which political voices get taken seriously and which are kept at the fringes? And how does that shape our democracy? 🌍

This is the kind of article APSR used to be famous for. The ones that make your brain explode, that challenge you, confuse you, test your patience, and make you smarter by making you realize your limitations. Well done Erica Simmons and @nickrushsmith.bsky.social‬ 👏

Really looking forward to reading this. @cameronwilson.bsky.social & @arielbogle.bsky.social are the best in the game in this space in Australia - they know their stuff, they write with wit and humour, and you just know this is gonna be bonkers, entertaining & informative all at the same time

This debate continues to fascinate me. Imagine any other field (medicine, physics, archeaology) and a topic where virtually every expert says “your terminology is wrong” (based on decades of discussing terminology) and then journalists just go “nah, I think you are wrong“

Far-right parties are doing well – so it’s important that we see them for what they are. Yet, in the UK, the label ‘hard right’ is catching on. Why is debateable. But, argues, @timbale.bsky.social, this misdescription sanitises far-right parties, and we should push back against it bit.ly/4eLRBeC

Thrilled that my article on women's activism in PRR parties has been published open access today in @cpsjournal.bsky.social 💫 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... This is my favourite article from my PhD thesis. I love the topic, its findings, and the literature it draws on. A quick 🧵:

Our book is out and available to read open access online: academic.oup.com/book/60532. It is dedicated to Niko.

Make that next week!

I'll be in Toronto in a couple weeks, presenting some new work on populism and "spatial political logics" at Glendon College, York University. GTA-baed people - hit me up for a coffee while I'm in town! iccs-ciec.ca/academic-eve...

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

A bit late to the party, but what's with all the uproar around the New Yorker piece on Curtis Yarvin? Has anyone criticising it actually read it? Kofman does a masterful job of letting him hang himself and makes him look like an arrogant, stupid, needy moron. I was actually laughing in parts

Tell me that the new NSW One Nation Senator is not just Malcolm Roberts with a different tie

While no surprises that One Nation picked up QLD (Malcolm Roberts), they also got the 6th spot in NSW & WA Now time to bet how long it takes for them to undergo the time honoured tradition of being a One Nation Senator - falling out with Hanson & quitting the party

"Youth Wings of the Populist Radical Right", now under contract with Oxford University Press. We've already got a full draft and the reviews were really positive, so this should be out in 2026! @ammassarisofia.bsky.social; @casmudde.bsky.social; @arjupskas.bsky.social

Seems that One Nation didn't even have a shot in Tasmania, despite the media beat up about it and the high profile candidate (i.e. Hanson's daughter)

Great topic and great crew of supervisors - if this was around when I was thinking of doing my PhD, I would have jumped at the opportunity!

Australian Journal of Political Science - 2025 Call for Submissions for Symposia PROPOSALS DUE: 30 June 2025 AusJPS is launching a call for the publication of symposia on any topic of interest to our readership and members of @auspsa.bsky.social Up to 3 symposium proposals will be accepted.

Look, usually Australia is the place where washed up far-right losers come to tour, appear in our media & gain plaudits from local conservatives when everyone else is sick of them - Milo, Lauren Southern, Jordan Peterson etc. So this feels really jarring & depressing - what a fall from the top

It‘s not surprising but still remarkable to see Yascha Mounk‘s name in between the white supremacists and new right pseudo-intellectuals. Maybe it will finally open some people‘s eyes and they will stop legitimizing him by treating him as a serious scholar or intellectual.

We are here! Welcome to the new Bluesky account of the Australian Journal of Political Science (AJPS), the official journal of the Australian Political Studies Association (‪@auspsa.bsky.social‬)! 1/1

🚨 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....

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A classic in the field - Cas was (unfortunately!) very prescient in in seeing where things stood and where things were heading even 15 years ago. I return to this article at least annually and am struck by how right it was (and is)

Feel like there is a lot of radical overinterpretation from many directions of the humdrum fact that not all that meaningful movements in seats that are split 3 ways will in Australia lead to different finishing orders and therefore a different winner

What an absolutely appalling piece of horseshoe theory here from Julian Hill. Labor have form on this with the Greens - Sam Dastiyari and Paul Howes did it in the early 2010s, comparing them to One Nation, but this is a new low - being anti-genocide is apparently "extremist" and "populist"

This is completely on the money

I look forward to the sudden interest in Canadian and Australian politics worldwide translating to case studies from those countries being accepted in the big American political science journals! Right?

This is just as bad as the “radical right party that has been part of a European country’s party system since the early 1980s wins by copying Trump’s anti-immigration playbook” perennial nonsense takes. Countries have their own domestic politics, they’re not sideshows to the US.

For international followers - tempting to see the Trump effect as the single casual factor here, and it definitely was a big issue, but also can't overlook the fact in Oz that the opposition here had a historically unlikeable leader in Peter Dutton, and one of the worst campaigns in living memory

This. As someone studying populism & the far right for over a decade, it drives me insane when Aussies pat themselves on the back for compulsory voting allegedly keeping these guys out. Sure, that's 1 factor, but the main explanation is that they're weird, unlikeable & terrible at party organisation

Really important point. Greens vote theoretically should have gone up given increased visibility & focus on renters/housing rights, but it's not like they bombed out in terms of numbers. Wondering if 2022 'Greenslide' was actually just a weird historic aberration that raised expectations too high.

People who think a modest/strong Labor majority means they will be bolder… can I introduce you to Keir Starmer? I would love it if Labor decided to be bolder this term but it’s not in their nature anymore.