India Tomorrow part 7: what Narendra Modi's landslide victory means for India

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5 | The Making of One Nation: master the media

The media made Pauline Hanson and One Nation, but now the party holds all the power.It’s a perfect storm for democracy: a shrinking and cowering traditional media, the toxic algorithms of the unmoderated social media cess pit and the warped reality of generative AI.But why is the ...  Show more

4 | The Making of One Nation: move the centre

It’s never held government, or even opposition, yet One Nation’s managed to exert an outsized influence on the public policy agenda.From borders to migration, multiculturalism to Indigenous affairs, the far-right party has mastered mainstreaming and captured the masses fleeing th ...  Show more

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