- Title
- Never let a good crisis go to waste: Pauline Hanson’s exploitation of COVID-19 on Facebook
- Creator
- Sengul, Kurt
- Relation
- Media International Australia Vol. 178, Issue 1, p. 101-105
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1329878X20953521
- Publisher
- Sage
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2020
- Description
- This brief contribution explores how the 2020 COVID-19 crisis has been exploited by Australian populist radical right politician, Pauline Hanson. In particular, I discuss how Hanson, through her political communication on Facebook, has used the COVID-19 crisis to prosecute her longstanding nativist policies on issues like immigration. I further discuss how Hanson’s anti-Asian and Sinophobic rhetoric has occurred alongside an increase in anti-Asian racism in Australia throughout the COVID-19 crisis. I conclude by discussing the implications of this as well as foreshadowing future empirical work on this topic.
- Subject
- communication; COVID-19; Facebook; Pauline Hanson; populism; populist radical right; SDG 3; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1459186
- Identifier
- uon:45602
- Identifier
- ISSN:1329-878X
- Language
- eng
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