Jordan McSwiney is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Deliberative Democracy at the University of Canberra. He is co-research lead on the Centre's Building Democratic Resilience research cluster, and a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council funded Discovery Projects Foreign Conflicts, Domestic Divides: Advancing a Deliberative Response and Democratic Resilience: The Public Sphere and Extremist Attacks. 

Jordan researches far-right politics, Australian politics, and democracy, with a particular interest in the organisation and communication of far-right parties and movements. His work has been published in leading journals including, Information, Communication & Society, The Journal of Politics, Political Studies, and New Media & Society, among others. He is the author of Far-Right Political Parties in Australia: Disorganisation and Electoral Failure (Routledge), awarded the Henry Mayer Book Prize for best book on Australian politics in 2025.

He is committed to impact-oriented research. Jordan was recognised as one of the ABC's TOP 5 Humanities scholars for 2026. He has appeared in a range of national and international media including The New York Times, ABC, SBS, The Sydney Morning Herald, and The Guardian. Jordan was invited to appear as an expert witness before the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee Inquiry Into Right Wing Extremist Movements in Australia, to provide evidence on the state of right-wing extremism in Australia. He also co-authored the first Guidebook for Deliberative Engagement for public servants and policy makers in Australia, in collaboration with the New South Wales and Australian governments.

Jordan holds several leadership roles in the Australian political science community, including as Co-Convenor (since 2022) and Treasurer (since 2023) of the Australian Political Studies Association (APSA) specialist group Political Organisations and Participation, and as the Managing Editor (since 2022) of the Australian Journal of Political Science, the official journal of APSA.

A full list of publications is available at ORCID and Google Scholar.

Recent Media

• One Nation’s internal challenges. Late Night Live, ABC Radio National, 22 July 2026. 
• VIDEO: Pauline Hanson unleashes at the National Press Club. 7.30, ABC, 16 June 2026.
• Like Trump, Hanson’s rise is beyond politics. That’s why she’ll be hard to stop. The Sydney Morning Herald, 13 June 2026.
• I went looking for One Nation’s policies. Here’s what I didn’t find. The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 June 2026.
• As Trump-adjacent populism surges in Australia, Pauline Hanson cashes in. Reuters, 6 May 2026.
• How Indigenous Acknowledgements became a target in Australia. The New York Times, 1 May 2026.
• The making of One Nation: Survive a scandal [podacast]. The Conversation, 16 April 2026.
• 'The perfect storm': Why One Nation is so popular right now [podcast]. SBS Examines, 14 April 2026
• Inside the voter shift: Can One Nation ride its poll surge to parliament? SBS News, 5 March 2026.
• She’s been anti-immigrant for decades. Now her popularity is soaring. The New York Times, 26 February 2026. 
• En Australie, la forte progression des actes racistes et des groupuscules néo-nazis inquiète [In Australia, the sharp rise in racist acts and neo-Nazi groups is causing concern]. Radio France Internationale, 26 February 2026.

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