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Insights

On borrowed calm

Across the Tasman, anger has propelled Pauline Hanson’s One Nation from a fringe outfit to the most popular party, on 31 percent in a recent poll, ahead of both Labor and the Coalition.

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Quadrant

The Warmth of the Herd

Across the democratic world, voters are losing patience with the machinery that stands between a vote and its result—the courts, parliamentary procedures and constitutional limits that do not care who won.