Never let a good crisis go to waste: Pauline Hanson’s exploitation of COVID-19 on Facebook

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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