This article challenges the theoretical opposition between nationalism and cosmopolitanism
with empirical research on the ways in which a group of ordinary Australians talked about …

Relations between Singapore and her immediate Malay neighbours have been perennially
fraught with tension and misunderstanding. In making sense of this complex relationship …

This paper explores fear‐arousing content in Australian former Prime Minister John
Howard's political rhetoric about terrorism. We coded 27 speeches delivered between …

Although social perception research has been carried out across a number of diverse
domains, to the best of our knowledge, studies have not directly assessed the relationship …

This article examines fear and anger content in the political rhetoric of former US President
George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair during the period 2001–2003 …

This article analyses how politicians' use of emotion is gendered. Key Australian, US and UK
politicians studied include Obama, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Cameron, Rudd, Abbott …

Much like the Brexit referendum result and Donald Trump's ascendency to the White House,
the revival of Pauline Hanson and the One Nation Party's (ONP) 2016 federal election …

Too often, existing literature has conflated the discourses that enabled the'War on Terror',
ignoring the contextual specificities of the states that make up the'Coalition of the Willing' …

As religious engagement in the Australian population continues to decline, the apparent
increased prominence of religion in Australian politics is puzzling. This article examines the …

Australia has been a frequent choice of location for narratives about the end of the world in
science fiction and speculative works, ranging from pre-colonial apocalyptic maps to key …