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Australia’s resisting the global populist tide. But now’s no time for smugness

Nick Bryant Journalist and author November 1, 2025 — 5.00am

March for Australia rallies, at which neo-Nazis have been a visible presence. The heightened prominence of the sovereign citizen movement. Vigils in state capitals for the assassinated MAGA provocateur Charlie Kirk. A surge in the polls for One Nation . The intrigue surrounding the ambitions of Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and Barnaby Joyce, both figures with journalistic entertainment value, a prerequisite for successful political disruptors. US- and European-style populism appears to be taking deeper root on Australian soil.

Ever since returning from the United States four years ago – and waking up in a quaranti

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