@article{c191b549ddb74899b3e70648330cbaf5,
title = "Organising Australian far-right parties: Pauline Hanson{\textquoteright}s One Nation and Fraser Anning{\textquoteright}s Conservative National Party",
abstract = "This paper analyses the organisation of two Australian far-right political parties: Fraser Anning{\textquoteright}s Conservative National Party (FACNP) and Pauline Hanson{\textquoteright}s One Nation (PHON). Based on semi-structured interviews with election candidates and office bearers and an analysis of official party documents, I examine how these parties manage their internal organisation and cope with problems of collective choice. I argue that their organisational practices are characterised by disorganisation. Namely, a lack of meaningful organisational structures and procedures, a core of socialised activists, andcoherent decision-making processes. By focusing on campaign mobilisation at the expense of party building, I argue that their disorganisation is inseparable from their muted electoral performance at the 2019 Australian federal election.",
keywords = "Political parties, party organisation, far right, Pauline Hanson, Australian politics",
author = "Jordan Mcswiney",
note = "Funding Information: Conversely, the NSW state branch of PHON is more developed. In one region, local party units (called regional co-ordinating committees) cover several electorates and meet every few months according to interviewees. The nomenclature itself is telling and implies that these local party units exist to functionally support the party{\textquoteright}s aspirations for office, rather than providing members a decision-making forum. Daniel and {\textquoteleft}John{\textquoteright}, a fellow NSW lower house candidate, spoke of active party member involvement in the roll out of new local units. According to the pair, those in existing regional co-ordinating committees have travelled to other electorates to help establish PHON local branches. However, this apparent expansion is ad hoc, driven by those members and supporters on the ground, with little-to-no assistance from the state or federal party aside from the initial approval to establish the branch. As such, the highly centralised structure of the federal party does not extend to the state and local level. Instead, the process of local branch development in NSW suggests something of a franchise system. This is supported by the accounts of former PHON executive member {\textquoteleft}Michael{\textquoteright}, who claimed the regional co-ordinating committees are far from well-functioning. Reflecting on his experience with the party{\textquoteright}s state branch in Queensland, Michael said he had {\textquoteleft}spoken to some regional coordinators who didn{\textquoteright}t have a clue what was going on. They didn{\textquoteright}t even know who their member was, who their candidate was.{\textquoteright} Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 Australian Political Studies Association.",
year = "2023",
doi = "10.1080/10361146.2022.2121681",
language = "English",
volume = "58",
pages = "37--52",
journal = "Australian Journal of Political Science",
issn = "1036-1146",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "1",
}