Who will win the furious race to lose government?

Thursday 30 March 2017

David Marr has unpacked Pauline and her voters in his latest Quarterly Essay, The White Queen. This is not a piece of polemic but a detailed and rich unpicking of the Hanson phenomenon.

Marr has a strong and eloquently put view: Hanson’s appeal ultimately rests on hostility to immigration and race. 82 per cent of One Nation voters regard immigration as “extremely important” when deciding how to vote, compared to numbers around the 50 per cent level for the major parties.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific's leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.