He is in his late fifties and lives outside a capital city. He owns his home — most often outright — and he still gets up and goes to work. He did a trade or a TAFE diploma rather than a degree, speaks only English at home, and calls his background Australian.
This is not a portrait of the fringe. It is a portrait of the part of Australia that used to be called the mainstream.
This was once a depiction of the “Howard battlers”, later “Tony’s tradies”. Now it’s Pauline Hanson who has a grip on many of these people, with who they are and what they think documented in an in-depth survey of more than 1000 One Nation voters.
