The problem with personality politics: Why Pauline Hanson's troubles are inevitable


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Mention these parties and you mention the founder, and that’s the point. Others may join the peloton, but are required to remain as domestiques, subsidiaries, numerical ballast. Policies, outside of one of two signature positions like immigration, are left similarly vague.


In its simplicity, the eponymous party offers instant brand penetration, but little chance of enduring impact.


Compared to the majors, encumbered with their rules and traditions, complex advancement mechanisms, and their pretence to govern, the political start-up is nimble and populist, readily tuned to the latest grievance.


At his peak, Nick Xenophon was good for two and more quotas in upper-house races in South Australia, all on his name alone.


It was only in the March 2018 state election that the limits of this appeal came crashing home when not a single lower house seat was won. His four spots won federally in 2016, could be halved after the July 28 byelection.


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