ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Marr is the author of Patrick White: A Life, Panic, The High Price of Heaven and Dark Victory (with Marian Wilkinson). He has written for the Sydney Morning Herald, the Age, the Saturday Paper, the Guardian and the Monthly, and been editor of the National Times, a reporter for Four Corners and presenter of ABC TV’s Media Watch. He is the author of five bestselling Quarterly Essays.

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The return of Pauline Hanson calls for national reflection. A strange gap has opened between the mood of this country and the temper of its politics. 
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David Marr discusses his Quarterly Essay 'The White Queen: One Nation and the Politics of Race'.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING

Marr is devastating in showing both major political parties in the country entirely preferenced One Nation last while essentially endorsing her racism on the boat people

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