Waleed Aly
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1,043 appearances
4 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 18 Jun
Waleed Aly’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This is best understood not as a movement that is based on a package of policies that happen to be popular, although that is part of it,
It's overwhelmingly a movement based on a mood, based on a posture, based on a rejection, based on a coalition of dissent.
And the thing about that is that makes it an insurgent that is really storming the barricades of the establishment.
And I don't know that in the end there's going to be that much that the Albanese government can really do to halt this.
I mean, it might be that all she needs to do is embody a certain attitude, embody a certain posture.
There's something there about authenticity and style and posture over content.
So once you're in that phase, then you can actually kind of get away either without policy detail or with policy detail that doesn't necessarily withstand conventional scrutiny.
And the reason is...
It's not playing a conventional game.
So there's a kind of assumption that's pervading at least some political observers at the moment that this will have to run aground once One Nation receives the kind of scrutiny it's never received before and when it starts to have scrutiny put on its policies.
Well, yes, maybe.
But that's applying the kind of logic that normally applies to conventional establishment political parties.
And if that's not what you're looking at here...
If you're looking at an insurgency, then none of that matters.
Yeah, well, that definitely helps.
But what's interesting about all of those elements is imagine those things in the hands of any other political party.
Imagine Anthony Albanese or Angus Taylor being gifted, not personally, but to their party, a private jet from a billionaire.
It would be a scandal.
they'd never really be able to live it down.
In the case of Pauline Hanson, much like in the case of Donald Trump, those sorts of things that would ordinarily be scandals, she can just brush off.
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